Charlamagne "tha God" criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for her choice of Tim Walz as her running mate in the 2024 race in a Friday discussion during his show The Breakfast Club. He said that Walz is not an "exciting" white man and wanted a "white man that excites other white people."

"I don’t think he’s garbage, you know what I’m saying? But it’s just like I don’t see the impact,” Charlamagne told cohost Loren LoRosa during the discussion. LoRosa responded, saying that Walz was "chilling."

He pushed back on the argument, and said, “We don’t need that now. We don’t need you chilling, Walz. Okay? We need you on the frontlines, okay? You need a white man that excites other white people. I don’t know if he’s that white person that's doing that," Charlamagne added.

In recent polls, GOP vice-presidential candidate JD Vance has been seen as a much more masculine figure than Walz, according to The Hill, with 38 percent of voters seeing Vance as "completely masculine" and only 27 percent seeing the same for Walz. The Harris-Walz ticket has attempted to appeal to young men as well as midwestern white men with Walz, who recently did a photo-op to go hunting, for which he was heavily criticized.

In order to shore up white male support, "White Dudes for Harris" also launched in an appeal to white men; however, the group has been mocked online by many after they met with their first fundraiser for the Democratic nominee and after an ad was released by the group's "Beige Rainbow PAC" that said many white dudes are the problem in the country.