Butwhyare Democrats calling their political opponents weird, and when did this start?
An explainer on how weird caught on, below.
We can trace the weird phenomenon back to late July.
Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance has been targeted by Democrats as being “weird”.
That stuff is weird, Walz said.
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He doubled down on the term a few days later on MSNBCsMorning Joe.
Walz began by criticizing Vance for belittling small-town America in his 2016 memoir,Hillbilly Elegy.
Vance know nothing about small-town America, he said.
My town had 400 people in it.
He continued: These guys are just weird.
Theyre running for He-Man Women-Haters Club or something.
Thats what they go at.
Thats not what people are interested in.
The clip went viral: on the Morning Joe Twitter account alone, it has over 7.8 million views.
Weeks later, Vice President Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz as her running mate in the 2024 presidential election.
At an August rally in Philadelphia, Tim Walz took the stage for his introductory speech.
), weird is refreshing in its bluntness.
I think its really elegant in its simplicity, Democratic strategist Caitlin Legacki toldABC Newsof the word.
I think it really reflects a newer way of thinking and campaigning and just calling it what it is.
Already, weird has become a Democratic rallying cry.
Etsy sellers are printing it on T-shirts and lawn signs.
By putting the word weird in green, everyone understands thats Kamala-coded, thats Brat-coded.
The Kamala Harris campaign has embraced it, too: These guys are creepy.
And, yes, just weird as hell.
They wrote in a recent text message to potential campaign donors.
