RED SCARE
Trump brands Walz ‘freakish’ and ‘weird’ at rally – and warns Dem ticket will turn US into ‘full-blown Communist nation’
It was Trump's first rally since the Minnesota governor joined the Democratic ticket
THE name game continues in the 2024 Presidential Election as former President Donald Trump has hit back at Democrats, slamming vice presidential candidate Tim Walz.
Trump called the Democratic candidate "a freak" and railed against the party as a whole during a campaign speech in Bozeman, Montana, on Friday night.
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The former president specifically targeted the Minnesota governor, who has not shied away from calling the Republican candidates "weird" in recent weeks.
“He’s very freakish,” Trump said during the speech.
“If Comrade Walz and Comrade Harris win this November, the people cheering will be the pink-haired Marxists, the looters, the perverts, the flag burners, Hamas supporters, drug dealers, gun grabbers and human traffickers.”
He went on to claim that Walz and Harris would turn the US into a "full-blown communist country."
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“We’re not weird,” Trump said of the Republican party.
“We’re the opposite of weird. They’re weird.”
WHO'S 'WEIRD'?
The former president appeared to be echoing a similar dig Walz had directed at Trump and his vice presidential pick, Ohio Senator JD Vance.
Walz appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe show on July 23 when he made the now viral statement.
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“These guys are just weird," the Democratic governor said.
Top Republicans were quick to lambast the governor for the insult, while Democrats embraced the verbiage, repeating in in the weeks that followed.
Now, Trump has attempted to direct the attack back on Democrats.
Earlier this month, the former president and convicted felon again labeled the party as "weird."
“They’re the weird ones. Nobody’s ever called me weird," Trump told conservative radio host Clay Travis.
"I’m a lot of things, but weird I’m not. And I’m upfront. And he’s not either, I will tell you. JD is not at all. They are."
JD VANCE VS TIM WALZ
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Senator JD Vance both had full lives before becoming politicians.
Walz and Vance both served in the military. Walz was in the Army National Guard for 24 years, and JD Vance was in the US Marine Corps for four years.
The veterans both share a love for Diet Mountain Dew.
However, Walz spent most of his early adulthood as a high school teacher and taught for one year in China after graduating college.
In 1999, he was the faculty advisor for the first ever Gay Straight Alliance at the high school he worked for.
Walz didn't foray into politics until 2004 when he volunteered for John Kerry's presidential campaign.
In 2006, he ran for Congress and beat incumbent Republican Gil Gutknecht. He served until 2019, when he was elected Minnesota's governor.
Vance, meanwhile, raised himself from a tumultuous childhood in Ohio and went to college after serving in the Marines.
After graduating from Ohio State University, he attended Yale Law School, where he started writing his bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy.
Vance briefly worked in politics before moving to the technology sector in California, where he met venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
In 2016, he published his book and became a household name in popular culture.
Vance, who was once staunchly anti-Donald Trump, ran for Senate on a pro-MAGA platform in 2022 and was elected with Trump's blessing.
TRASHING TICKETS
Walz officially joined Harris on the Democratic ticket for the November election earlier this week.
Democrats have praised Harris' pick, pointing to Walz military service, long-time political career, extensive experience in education, and dedication to his family.
However, Trump has not shied away from blasting Democratic ticket as "dangerous."
During his Montana campaign stop on Friday, the former president accused Walz of promoting socialism and being extremely liberal in his governing of Minnesota.
Trump campaign's full statement on Kamala Harris' VP pick Tim Walz
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign issued a fiery statement after Democrat Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tom Walz as her running mate.
"It's no surprise that San Francisco liberal Kamala Harris wants West Coast wannabe Tim Walz as her running-mate — Walz has spent his governorship trying to reshape Minnesota in the image of the Golden State," the statement from Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt reads.
"While Walz pretends to support Americans in the Heartland, when the cameras are off, he believes that rural America is 'mostly cows and rocks.'
"From proposing his own carbon-free agenda, to suggesting sticker emission standards for gas-powered cars, and embracing policies to allow convicted felons to vote, Walz is obsessed with spreading California's dangerously liberal agenda far and wide.
"If Walz won't tell voters the truth, we will: just like Kamala Harris, Tim Walz is a dangerously liberal extremist, and the Harris-Walz California dream is every American's nightmare."
He specifically pointed to the riots and protests that occurred in Minneapolis following the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
He accused Walz of letting "rioters and looters" burn down the city.
"This is her ideology," Trump said of Harris.
"That's why she picked him."
Also on Friday, Harris appeared at a campaign rally in Arizona.
If Comrade Walz and Comrade [Kamala] Harris win this November, the people cheering will be the pink-haired Marxists, the looters, the perverts, the flag burners, Hamas supporters, drug dealers, gun grabbers and human traffickers.
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The vice president also took time to slam the opposing ticket, particularly criticizing Trump on border safety.
During her speech, Harris doubled down on her commitment to border safety.
Harris said she would "hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking," and claimed Trump doesn't want to "fix" the crisis.
“Be clear about that: He has no interest or desire to actually fix the problem," Harris said.
"He talks a big game about border security, but he does not walk the walk.”
It comes as...
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- Anthony Scaramucci warns Trump that JD Vance and Tim Walz will cause him problems
- JD Vance blasts Tim Walz as 'shameful' as he and Trump tear into the Democratic VP pick
- A poll by Democrats says Harris made the wrong choice with Walz and could 'pay the price'
- CNN panel spirals out of control after remark about why Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz over Josh Shapiro
- Tim Walz uses first campaign rally speech to take vicious swipe at his Republican rival
HEAD TO HEAD
Trump and Harris are set to take the debate stage for the first time on September 10.
The debate will be hosted by ABC News and moderated by World News Tonight's David Muir and ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis.
Both candidates have said they are open to appearing at additional debates in the weeks leading up to the November election.
Vance and Walz have also publicly said they are open to debating.
"I gotta tell you - I can't wait to debate the guy," Walz said on Vance at a campaign event in Pennsylvania this week.
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"That's if he's willing to get off the couch and get up."
A date has yet to be set for the vice presidential debate.