Vice President Kamala Harris may be reconsidering her choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate on the 2024 Democratic ticket, given that he has not been particularly successful in helping her appeal to working-class male voters, a demographic she has consistently had trouble with.

The latest failure for the Harris-Walz campaign involved a staged pheasant hunting excursion in which the purportedly experienced hunter struggled to load his shotgun, didn't bag any birds, and may not have even fired a single shot, according to The Western Journal.

This was just one of several recent campaign efforts seemingly aimed at winning over male voters, some involving Walz but some not, that appear to have backfired and may even result in less support for Harris' candidacy among men than before.

Elmer Fudd goes hunting

Fox News reported that Gov. Walz and some friends, accompanied by media cameras and reporters, hit the fields for Minnesota's first day of pheasant season with their dogs, gear, and guns, but the excursion doesn't appear to have been successful, either in bagging any birds or in garnering additional male support for the Democratic ticket.

Instead, the short hunting trip earned Walz plenty of criticism and mockery, most especially for his apparent struggles to load his expensive Beretta semi-automatic shotgun with shells -- none of which he actually fired, according to the journalists who tagged along.

The governor's trouble handling his firearm seemingly laid bare his controversial and disputed claim about carrying "weapons of war" in a war -- he never deployed to a combat zone during his National Guard service -- that he used to frequently use to justify his support for anti-Second Amendment gun control proposals.

The incident also seemingly belied his assertions that he is a lifelong bird hunter, as he appeared to be rather inexperienced in that situation, at least with that particular shotgun.

Kamala has a problem with male voters

According to MinnPost, there is no denying that VP Harris has a serious and worsening "problem" with male voters, and her campaign has tried and failed at several different approaches to address her shortcomings with roughly half of the voter pool.

Indeed, multiple have shown and continue to show that Harris trails former President Donald Trump by around 15 points, give or take a few, among male voters in general, with that deficit being especially pronounced among white working-class and non-college-educated male voters, and growing particularly fast among black and Hispanic male voters.

Walz, with his "Aww-shucks" rural and middle-class everyman persona -- replete with plaid shirts, camo hats, an old truck, his supposed hunting and military experience, and his role as a former high school football coach -- has been deployed by the campaign to address that gap.

So to, albeit to a lesser extent, has the campaign dispatched former President Barack Obama, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, and a host of male athletes and celebrities to try and garner additional support from male voters -- but those efforts don't appear to be paying off for Harris.

Attempting to fix the problem is only making it worse

Part of the problem, per a New York Post op-ed, is that Democrats have spent years belittling and demonizing and sidelining men, which renders the recent appeals desperate and ignorable.

As it turns out, most men don't appreciate being falsely pandered to by fakers and liars like Walz, scolded by Obama, or told that soft-spoken "wife guy" Emhoff is the new definition of "masculinity," nor do they care to be informed that they are hateful and misogynist neanderthals if they don't vote for the woman candidate solely because she is a woman and "the future is female."