Are Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Channeling Chappell Roan With This Camo Hat Merch?
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Is the Democratic Party moving from Brat Summer to Midwest Princess Fall? After Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her Vice President running mate on Tuesday morning, it didn’t take long for the campaign to churn out more merch in support of the 60 year-old Minnesota Governor.
Among the newest Harris-Walz offerings on the Kamala Harris website, whose proceeds directly support the Harris Victory Fund, is a camo hat imprinted with “Harris Walz” in yellow lettering.
If it looks familiar, it’s because it looks suspiciously similar to merch sold by Chappell Roan, whose website sells a nearly identical camo trucker hat with yellow lettering that reads, instead, “Midwest Princess” for her 2023 breakthrough album “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.” The Harris campaign made no direct references to Roan upon the merch drop Wednesday morning, but the internet was quick to point out the similarities.
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