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MILWAUKEE — Biden-Harris campaign surrogate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz derided GOP vice presidential hopeful JD Vance as a “monster” just days after the incumbent president talked about cooling down the national political temperature.
“[He’s] the perfect Frankenstein monster created by the Heritage Foundation. And I say this because I read ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’” the Democrat chided during a press conference with reporters.
Walz panned Vance’s bestselling memoir as a misunderstanding of the ideals of middle America.
“It should be ‘Mind your own damn business.’ That’s how small towns work. They work because you respect your neighbor and you understand their choices, who they marry, their own health care decisions, [and] what books they read,” he argued.
The Minnesota Democrat also blasted the Republican National Convention, underway in Milwaukee, as a Donald Trump lovefest.
“Each one of these days has a theme. Last night was ‘Bend the knee and grovel,’ apparently, and today is ‘Celebrate Russia Day,’” Walz sneered.
Quentin Fulks, principal deputy campaign manager for the Biden-Harris campaign, also blasted Republicans for a segment during day 2 of the convention meant to highlight the plight of “everyday Americans” like the Morin family and Madeline Brame, who lost loved ones in brutal crimes.
Fulks decried the event as “outrageous” and underscored that Republicans tanked a bipartisan border security package in the Senate earlier this year.
“What you heard was transparent politicizing of a tragic loss of American families and absolutely nothing to honor their losses with action,” he said. “You did not hear about a plan to secure the border from the Republicans. You did not hear about a plan to reduce crime.”
He also shrugged off former 2024 Republican hopeful Nikki Haley’s full-throated endorsement of former President Trump during her remarks Tuesday, despite the campaign’s efforts to win over her supporters.
“I think that Nikki Haley and her supporters are two different groups of people,” he said. “Nikki Haley supporters voted for her in the primary, hundreds of thousands of them … and, unfortunately, Nikki Haley got on stage last night and spewed MAGA extremist talking points.”
The Biden-Harris campaign held a press conference Wednesday morning a few blocks outside the convention to issue grave warnings about Republican plans for clamping down on abortion should Trump be re-elected.
“We need to believe them when they tell us what they want to do,” Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) stressed during the news conference.
They spotlighted Amanda Zurawski, a Texas woman who was stymied from obtaining a medically necessary abortion due to restrictions imposed by the Lone Star State.
She painfully recalled her experience after her cervix dilated prematurely at 18 weeks pregnant and she was told that she needed to wait until her life was in danger.
“What I went through was nothing short of barbaric, and it didn’t need to happen, but it did because of Donald Trump,” she told reporters.
“It is unthinkable to me that anyone could cheer on the cruel abortion bans that nearly took my life, but they do.”
She further warned that if Trump and Vance win the election, they will make her “devastating story” the “reality for far too many more American women.”