J.D. Vance calls Tim Walz a 'San Francisco-style liberal'

J.D. Vance failed to connect on one of his first attacks since learning the identity of his Democratic vice presidential rival.

The Ohio Republican appeared Tuesday in Philadelphia hours after Kamala Harris tapped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, and Vance described him as a "San Francisco-style liberal" — an irony called out by Bryan Metzger, senior politics reporter for Business Insider.

Yes, homelessness is an issue across the country, but just to see this – it was exotic to me."

"I've seen San Francisco on TV hundreds of times and I've heard about it, and there I am driving around, and I'm like a kid again," Walz added. "I'm, like, 'America is so awesome, San Francisco is just the greatest,' and that's the way people would feel – go out to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, go to northern Minnesota and look where the mining has happened for 100 years. This is the beauty of America, and they demonize it."

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