Former Rep. Dean Phillips and Elon Musk (Getty Images)
"And there's nothing conservative about an unelected, South African nepo baby firing people at the VA," he said last week during remarks in Iowa.
He also deployed the phrase while speaking in Wisconsin on Tuesday, according to the New York Times, which also reported that he had called Musk a "dips---."
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Walz was Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate when she sought the presidency last year, but the Democratic duo lost to the Republican ticket headed by political juggernaut, now-President Donald Trump.
"Regardless of one’s opinion of Musk, this is a great strategy for further alienating center right and center left Americans and losing federal elections," Phillips opined earlier this month when retweeting a post that featured footage of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., calling Musk a "billionaire con man with a lot of money."
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., has called Musk a "Nazi nepo baby."
Phillips mounted a Democratic presidential primary bid in 2023 but ultimately dropped out in 2024.
Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.
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