Radio host Charlamagne Tha God on Tuesday warned that Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance has a strong counter if Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tries to label him as “weird” during their debate.
Walz is credited with starting the trend of calling Vance “weird” during a July 23 appearance on “Morning Joe,” a term corporate media and Democrats repeatedly used to describe the Republican vice president nominee. Charlamagne, on “The Breakfast Club,” asserted Vance can push back effectively during the debate by referencing Walz’s 2023 bill mandating tampons in school bathrooms for students in fourth grade through twelfth grade, which did not specify gender.
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“I want y’all to know that it’s not going to be a wash. It’s not going to be like when [former President] Donald Trump went against [President Joe] Biden and Trump washed Biden. It’s not going to be like [Vice President Kamala] Harris against Trump when Harris washed Trump,” Charlamagne said. “It’s not going to be like that with these two because I think that, you know, JD Vance doing all of this Sunday morning television that he’s been doing the past few weeks, I think that’s prepped him very well because he’s been asked a lot of, you know, tough questions, right? He gives terrible answers, but he still gives answers nonetheless.”
“And I think that, you know, when Tim Walz tries to paint him as weird, as soon as JD hits him with the ‘Tampon Tim,’ and says, ‘You tried to put tampons in the boys bathroom,’ you know, I think that’s going to make America be like, ‘What? He did what?’ I don’t think that has been as loud as it probably could be, but I think after tonight it will be, and people are going to be looking at Tim like, ‘He did what now?’” the radio host added.
Trump and others have nicknamed Walz “Tampon Tim” in light of the bill he signed. The governor also signed the “Trans Refuge Bill” in 2023, allowing the state of Minnesota to make custody determinations if a child is not provided access to sex-change procedures.
Vance and Walz are slated to square off Tuesday in their only vice presidential debate ahead of the November election. Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Ian Sams warned Monday that Vance is “slick” and “he can play the game onstage pretty well.”
Harris has previously expressed her support for tax-payer funded sex changes for transgender prison inmates and illegal immigrants, with the Trump campaign releasing an advertisement attacking her on the issue. Charlamagne on Monday said the ad impacted him when it aired while he was watching weekend football games.
“I don’t know if it was the backdrop of football, but when you hear the narrator say Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners, that one line I was like, ‘Hell no, I don’t want my taxpayer dollars going to that.’ That ad was effective,” he said.
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