This montage from Grabien founder Tom Elliott contrasts the media's reaction to Tim Walz's candidacy with their reaction to J.D. Vance:
WALZ
CNN HOST: A Midwestern dad, like super clean-cut vibe!
KASIE HUNT, CNN: Everybody likes Tim Walz!
CLAIRE MCCASKILL, MSNBC: So plain-spoken and relatable.
ASHLEY ALLISON, CNN: As moderate and independent as it comes.
ALAYNA TREENE, CNN: A pretty moderate Democrat.
REP. SETH MOULTON, FOX NEWS: I always knew him as a moderate, one of the most moderate--
JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC: A very moderate record.
JOY REID, MSNBC: A new moderate.
JOAN WALSH, THE NATION: I think this is the new moderate
MICHAEL STEELE, MSNBC: Far from progressive.
REP. NANCY PELOSI: He's right down the middle.
YAMICHE ALCINDOR: He's not just an old white man.
CHUCK TODD, NBC: Tim Walz speaks American.
CHARLIE SYKES: He talks like a regular person.
SUSAN PAGE, USA TODAY: Tim Waltz is the opposite of weird.
CHUCK TODD, NBC: He is basically younger Joe Biden.
JOHN KASICH: Regular old Joe out there--
DANA BASH, CNN: We have a populist approach to fear on the Republican side and the happy populism that Tim Walz is on the ticket on the Democratic side
MICHAEL SCHEAR, NEW YORK TIMES: Walz is a kind happy warrior.
S.E. CUPP, CNN: Happy warriors.
ANDREA MITCHELL, MSNBC: He was certainly the happy warrior last night... and seemed to be a happy warrior last night.
JONATHAN LEMIRE, POLITICO: A happy warrior, folksy backstory.
MARK MCKINNON: They are going to be very happy warriors!
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL, MSNBC: There is a new happy warrior!
ASTEAD HERNDON, NEW YORK TIMES: Following the happy warrior mold.
JOHN HEILEMANN: Happy warrior.
PETER ALEXANDER, NBC NEWS: Happy warrior mentality.
RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC: Wicked sense of humor... Look how happy the pig looks!
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VANCE
DAVID PLOUFFE: J D Vance is weird, extreme, and angry.
RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC: Utter humorlessness... the humorlessness and pompousness.
NICOLE WALLACE, MSNBC: Hard to believe that J.D. Vance could be any more extreme.
TIM MILLER: It's like a freak show of bros.
CHARLIE SYKES: They had J.D. Vance, dark and ugly... beneath the dignity of most politicians.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI, MSNBC: J.V. Vance.
JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC: The most extreme.
CHRIS HAYES: Being one of the most extreme.
CHARLIE SYKES: We need to recognize the danger.
S.E. CUPP: Angry and mean and dark.
JOY REID, MSNBC: Cat lady-hating sidekick J.D. Vance... This guy is really weird, y'all!
DAVID HOGG: Everybody in America knows a J.D. Vance, but we stay away from him because he's weird.
JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC: Anger, chaos.
JOAN WALSH, THE NATION: Hang-dog ex-husband.
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WALZ
JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC: Hope, optimism, joy.
TOREY VAN OTT, AXIOS: Salt of the Earth of the Midwestern uncle vibes.
SABRINA RODRIGUEZ, WASHINGTON POST: The quintessential midwestern dad.
KAISE HUNT, CNN: Tim Walz keeps winning hot dish contests, apparently.
RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC: Tim Walz is so funny that if he's good at this, he will release a recipe for a hot dish.
MICHAEL STEELE, MSNBC: All of his time on the ground, you know, fixing F-150s.
DAVID AXELROD: Walz is out of a Norman Rockwell painting, right? He's small-town America incarnated.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Midwest, Your uncle, your dad.
DAVID HOGG: I have not been this happy in years... He is the guy who is always there to help you, whether it's changing your oil, whether it's fixing a lawn mower or whether it's helping to fix our democracy... It feels so good to have hope!
MIKE BARNICLE, MSNBC: I'm going to call him the coach from now until election day.
JONATHAN LEMIRE, POLITICO: Coach! Coach!
JOT REID, MSNBC: Tim Walt, the plain-spoken fun uncle who will defend the people he loves.
MOLLY JONG FAST, MSNBC: He ice fishes. He's a hunter. He does butter carving. You know, he is a rural person.
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