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Democrats Should Ditch the J.D. Vance Couch Joke

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Tim Walz joked that he wanted to debate J.D. Vance if he was willing to "get off the couch and show up" The joke became a running gag on social media in the past two weeks .

Walz’s joke on Tuesday was by far the highest-profile invocation yet, and we’re not done yet.

The Harris campaign has known how to toe the line between effective personal jabs and unhelpful groupthink.

The couch joke opens up not-totally-unfair accusations that Democrats won’t play by the rules they claim to revere.

If Democrats ride the couch-fucker joke to victory in November , I will not weep for our republic.

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