The crowd at the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz Democratic presidential ticket introduction rally on Tuesday evening chanted “he’s a weirdo” to mock Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance.
The crowd at the campaign rally at Philadelphia’s Temple University started the chant after Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro criticized Vance’s policies and argued he was not honest with the American people.
“If I hear you right, and I think I do, you're chanting ‘he's a weirdo,’” Shapiro said during his speech that introduced Harris and Walz. “Man, I love you, Philly, Which means, if you're chanting, ‘he's a weirdo,’ then you’ve heard of my good friend and our next vice president, Tim Walz! Because Tim Walz, in his beautiful, Midwestern, plainspoken way, he summed up JD Vance the best: he's a weirdo.”
Shapiro praised Walz just hours after Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, passed over the Pennsylvania governor and chose Walz, Minnesota’s governor, to be her running mate. The Harris campaign now figures to utilize Walz as a contrast to Vance, who has taken heat on the campaign trail for past comments, including remarks from 2021, when he criticized Democrats as “childless cat ladies.”
