Jeremy Green Eche: a squatter investor and whose domain name bought last year helped him win the 2016 presidential nomination in New York City
He snapped up 15 Harris-related domain names, along with “every sort of folksy white man I could think of who was big at the time.” Illinois Gov. Pritzker, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee are all Democrats.
Jeremy Green Eche, 36, is a trademark attorney who also runs an online marketplace where people can buy and sell registered trademarks and domains. He is probably better known as a domain investor.
“I also freely call myself a domain squatter or a cybersquatter,” he says. I don’t mind if I use it because it’s still accurate.
Eche says he is not ruling out the possibility of running for president one day, but he is holding onto some domain names for a potential Walz-led ticket.
It’s largely guesswork, though Eche keeps up with politics (he’s a member of New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter) and links his knack for recognizing rising political stars to his college gig as an autograph dealer.
He’s also in the process of buying back the Clinton-Kaine domain name — in part because of its “sentimental value” from the person who bought it after the Trump campaign let it expire. He does Republican domain names too, and says his best one this year was TrumpCotton.com (until Trump did not pick Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, that is.)
He says he sold the site for $15,000 to a mystery buyer, which turned out to be the Trump campaign. They used a website to publish news against Clinton.
A Hypothetical Harris-Walz Site: Why He’s Going to Win the 2028 Election and Why He Can’t Go There
Before this process, Harris didn’t know the Minnesota governor or a former congressman. But his speech with Harris in Philadelphia Tuesday introducing the Harris-Walz ticket to the country made his appeal clear.
While Eche had the hypothetical Harris-Walz domain on lock for years, he surely couldn’t have predicted the twists and turns that this election cycle would take — from President Biden embarking on a second term and withdrawing, then the Democratic party coalescing around Harris as the nominee and her choosing Walz out of a crowded pool of contenders.
“I feel a little bit like someone who went to the Olympics eight years ago and did well and then missed out on it in Tokyo and then came back and got a gold medal again,” Eche said. “I feel like the GOAT of this very, very small niche of cybersquatting.”
In fact, Eche says he barely had time to prepare. He embellished the ClintonKaine.com in 2016 with comic books and fiction to give people something to look at. This time around, he had just enough time to make a single meme, at his wife’s suggestion.
The Harris-Walz website has the same green background and all lowercase “walz”, which is a striking similarity to the aesthetic of the album “Brat.” The site looks the same, but with a different name. Clicking on those two pages takes users to Eche’s online marketplace, with a list of other hypothetical Harris domains and the option to buy HarrisWalz.com.
If Harris were to win the election in 2028, the domains will retain their value despite being worth less than in the current year. This makes them an excellent investment.
Many expect Michigan Gov. GretchenWhitmer will run in the future. His hypothetical running mates for her include Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth. He is offering them at a cost of more than $4,000.
I know a lot of people in the heartland who studied at Yale and went on to have successful careers before writing a best seller bashing the community. Come on. Middle America is not what that is. And I gotta tell you. I can’t wait to debate the guy. If he will show up and get off the couch.
The Democratic Party has an issues with people who are wealthy. It started before Trump with Republicans calling them “Limousine Liberals” and “latte-drinking liberals.” But it’s become more acute in the age of Trump. The Democratic party did a good job connecting with the working class white voters of the past. There was a plan for how to say the same words, but delivered in a more authentic way.
He talked about his work as a high school teacher and football coach. One of his former football players talked to CNN about how he helped him out and was a father figure to him, as he was raised by a single mom.
He discussed what it was like growing up in a rural community and how neighbors treated each other.
From Tim Walz to Congress: A Golden Rule for White Guys in Minnesota, and a Warning to Black Guys in the House of Representatives
Walz talked about being a good shot, one of the best, when he was in Congress. He was wearing a camo hat in the video when he got the call from Harris to be her VP.
“Some of us are old enough to remember when it was Republicans who were talking about freedom. It turns out now what they meant was that the government should be free to invade your doctor’s office. In Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and their personal choices that they make. It’s a golden rule if you don’t make the same choice for yourself. ”
I am down there with you. I see those old, white guys,” he said, jokingly pointing to others in the front rows before delivering a pretty progressive message:
He’s a white guy. Part of Harris’ job is to testify in order to bring reassurance to people who may be skeptical of the person at the top of the ticket. That might be ideological or — when there hasn’t been a woman as president, let alone a Black or South Asian woman in the office — it might be the white guy’s job to reassure other white guys.
Source: Takeaways from Tim Walz’s introduction to the national stage
The Elephant in the Room: When JD Vance Becomes a President, Not a New York City? A Reply to L. Weir
It’s not from San Francisco. He made that clear Tuesday night. And in one off-the-cuff comment, he hit on what could be considered the elephant in the room.
He’s the guy who coined “weird” as an attack line against former President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, but he didn’t dwell on that in the speech.