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.

"Vance spent about four years living in SF between 2013 and 2017 as a venture capitalist," Metzger wrote. "Walz visited SF for the first time *just last month.*"

Republicans have been trying to deride Harris, who spent time in California as a child and spent most of her professional and political career there, as out of touch with most Americans due to her time in the Bay Area, a dynamic Walz commented earlier this week.

"There was a desire to make these undesirable places," Walz said of conservative attacks on coastal regions and urban areas. "They do it to San Francisco, and just to be candid ... last week was my first time, last week was my first time in San Francisco. Stayed down there, I was doing some meetings, woke up, did my five-mile run through the Presidio, to the Golden Gate, went back to my hotel, was downtown, and as I was leaving, I said, 'That is the most beautiful city I've ever been in."

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"The temperature, and I see the Golden Gate – what they've done, look, have there been problems? 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."