The Patriot Post® · Tim Walz Gets His Debate Wish

Tim Walz is a weirdo. Oh, sure, he loves to project that word onto others, but how else are we to explain the emotive and unmanly way Kamala Harris’s support animal scurries onto a stage, alternately bowing and genuflecting and pressing his palms together and tearfully placing his hand on his heart?

Even the lefties at “Saturday Night Live” are making fun of him.

In this video, SNL pokes fun at Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential nominee, Tim Walz, depicting him as an overly aggressive football coach and former teacher who is out of touch with reality. They portray him as weird, and Kamala’s attempts to comfort his oddness don’t resonate… pic.twitter.com/GmEE0wLEOv

— Tony Lane 🇺🇸 (@TonyLaneNV) September 29, 2024

“These guys are creepy. They’re just weird as hell,” Walz said of Donald Trump and JD Vance at a rally in Philadelphia on August 6, the day after Kamala Harris tapped him to be her running mate. But at that same rally, Walz also said of Vance, “I’ve gotta tell you, I can’t wait to debate the guy — that is if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up.”

We mention this because Walz will indeed get his chance to debate Vance tonight on CBS and because Walz and his team have been feverishly working the refs of late, leaking out word that he’s nervous about the debate and worried that he’ll let Kamala Harris down:

Behind closed doors, the folksy, fun-loving governor can be overly defensive when confronted about his mistakes, according to fellow Minnesota Democrats. During his first campaign in 2006, he also developed a reputation for speaking so quickly that an ally characterized him as “a bit manic.” … And ahead of his debate with JD Vance … some of his allies privately say they worry he won’t live up to Vice President Kamala Harris’ debate performance against former President Donald Trump.

This is all rubbish. Walz is a very good debater, and he’s had plenty of practice. He’s been in politics for around two decades, while Vance’s political career spans just two years. On Fox News this morning, senior Trump campaign communicator Tim Murtaugh called Walz’s faux whining “the most egregious case of expectation-lowering I’ve ever seen.”

Murtaugh added: “This guy has been through six congressional races and two gubernatorial races. He’s gonna be just fine. … You’re not gonna see Governor Jazz Hands like we’re used to seeing when he’s out there bouncing around and flouncing around on the campaign trail. … But he’s got a big job on his hands because he’s got to go out there and defend Kamala Harris’s record and her reckless agenda.”

Indeed, vice-presidential debates rarely move voters, but Republican veep candidates often do well in them (think Dick Cheney and Mike Pence) because they’re able to prosecute a case against the top of the Democrat ticket that the mainstream media invariably refuses to prosecute.

I think Vance is going to clean Walz’s clock. He’s sharpened his game against the MSM’s attacks in recent weeks, while Walz has remained in witness protection. Vance’s command of the facts is both impressive and effortless. And I expect him to hit Harris for her flip-flops, for her support of Bidenomics, for her failure as Joe Biden’s border czar, for the thousands of murderers and rapists that she’s let into the country, and for her support of taxpayer-funded sex change operations for imprisoned illegals.

Talk about weirdos. What percentage of the American people — indeed, what percentage of Pennsylvanians and Michiganders — are aligned with the Harris-Walz ticket on these radical policies?

Where his counterpart is concerned, Vance does have a target-rich environment. Tampon Tim isn’t just your run-of-the-mill beta male. He’s also a deployment-dodging, valor-thieving, China-loving weirdo who dithered for three days before sending in the National Guard while Minneapolis burned.

Still, Vance goes into tonight’s debate with some work to do. Thanks to the mainstream media and the thin skin of some childless cat ladies, he’s viewed favorably by just 38% of registered voters and unfavorably by 50%. That’s a rather remarkable deficit for a VP candidate. Walz, meanwhile, is viewed favorably by 43% but unfavorably by just 40%.

The other obstacle that Vance will have to deal with is the CBS moderators, Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan, both of whom have a history of anti-Trump bias. Once again, then, the Republican will be in a three-on-one debate.

Vance, though, has been sharpened by the attacks, and he’s built muscle memory from the tough, tendentious questions he’s encountered during the more than 100 interviews he’s done since Donald Trump selected him.

“JD Vance is gonna go out there and do a great job,” said Murtaugh. “He’s the best promoter and defender of Donald Trump and his policies that we’ve got.”