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Arwa Mahdawi

Republicans who think ‘Tampon Tim’ is an insult are actually Walz’s best publicists

Tim Walz, a man wearing a blue suit jacket and white button-down, raises his hands in the air
‘Walz signed an education bill that mandated public schools offer free menstruation products in their bathrooms. To anyone with an ounce of common sense, this sounds like a great thing to do.’ Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

Watch out world, Republicans are on the offensive. Still smarting from being called “weird”, it looks like a bunch of GOP strategists got in a room this week to workshop devastating nicknames for Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz. After combining their dozen or so braincells, they came up with a winner: Tampon Tim. The name has been trending on social media as people on the right desperately try to make #TamponTim stick.

Apart from the fact that it alliterates, what prompted this moniker? Well, in 2023 Walz signed a wide-ranging Minnesota education bill that, along with a number of other provisions, mandated public schools offer free menstruation products in their bathrooms.

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