He thinks he’s a sofany.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz made a couch joke on Tuesday, attacking Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance, who is making his first appearance as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate.
“Like any other normal person I know who grew up in the Midwest, JD went to Yale, was funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and then wrote a best-selling book that disparaged that community,” he said at a rally in Philadelphia alongside Harris.
“Come on, that’s not middle-class America,” Walz argued, expressing his desire to debate the Ohio senator.
“I honestly can’t wait to debate him, if he’s willing to get up off the couch and show up,” he joked.
“Did you see what I did?”
The joke got the crowd excited, but Harris didn’t seem too amused.
The vice president appeared to grimaced milliseconds before Walz delivered the laugh line.
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Harris, 59, chuckled afterwards but quickly looked away from Waltz and appeared to focus her attention on the floor as the crowd cheered.
Harris didn’t clap back at the joke.
Waltz’s joke was a reference to an online hoax that falsely claimed Vance wrote an X-rated anecdote about the couch in his 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
“These people are creepy,” Waltz said of the Republican presidential candidates, “and just super weird.”
