On August 6, 2024, 91 days before the election date, Kamala Harris presented her vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz. The incumbent vice president had declared her candidacy for president just sixteen days earlier, on the day Joe Biden withdrew. One reason why the choice for the vice post fell on the governor of Minnesota was the response that Walz had triggered with a word to characterize his opponent. Donald Trump, Walz had said on television, was “weird”: a strange guy and a strange character, somehow, it resonated, uncanny like the mad scientists from the horror comic books of the 1950s with titles like “Weird Science” and “Weird Fantasy” – In any case, Walz expressly says, no one like us, like Tim Walz and his neighbors.
