In an interview that was broadcast early Friday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) stated that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), the Democratic nominee for vice president, is “driving former President Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), nuts.”
“I think that Trump and Vance, they think they have some kind of like, monopoly over masculinity,” Cortez said during a recent interview with Stephen Colbert.
“And Walz has kinda shown up — he’s a football coach, he was the head of the gay-straight alliance as the football coach. And he’s like, ‘Actually, this stuff is weird, and why are you acting like that?’ And I think it’s driving ’em nuts, because he’s showing another way to be an upright man in America.” she continued.
Walz has characterized Trump and Vance as “weird,” a term that has resonated with his fellow Democrats.
The characterization has been resisted by both the former president and his running colleague.
“This whack job. You know, he said we’re ‘weird.’ That JD and I are ‘weird.’ I think we’re extremely normal people. Like you. He’s weird. Did you ever see him go on the stage and go like crazy? Between his movement and her laugh, there’s a lot of craziness. I’d say a step further than ‘weird.’ ‘Weird’ is a nice word by comparison.” Trump concluded earlier this week when discussing Walz.
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