When Vice President Kamala Harris chose Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as her running mate for 2024, Republicans were quick to criticize the pair, calling them the “most radical” ticket in U.S. history.
According to a statement from House GOP Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the Democrats are making history by putting Harris-Walz on the ballot this November. She will be running on the most extreme far-left ticket ever. “Walz experienced failure both as a member of Congress and as a governor.” He supported the Defund the Police BLM policy, which resulted in the burning of cities. Simultaneously, Kamala raised funds to release dangerous criminals from jail.
Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder and former Biden White House lawyer Dana Remus spent weeks carefully reviewing candidates before making their choice public on Tuesday morning. Finally, Walz, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA), and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) were in the running.
Republican leaders said Harris didn’t give Shapiro the No. 2 spot because of “anti-Semitism in their own party,” which made Shapiro look like the popular choice.
“The far Left doesn’t like the idea that he is Jewish-American,” Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), who was Trump’s choice for vice president, told Hugh Hewitt earlier this week on a conservative radio show.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee also used Harris’s choice of Walz over Shapiro as an opening strike to make the same claim.
Josh Shapiro is Jewish, which is why Kamala Harris didn’t choose him. “That says a lot about the Democratic Party today,” Mike Berg, head of press for the NRSC, said in a statement.
Big-name Republicans in Minnesota were quick to attack Walz, saying that the governor had the same policies as Harris while in office.
The top Republican lawmaker from Minnesota, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), said, “It’s not surprising that Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz as her running mate. He supports the same detrimental economic, open-borders, and soft-on-crime policies that Harris has been pushing for the last four years.” “Walz is a phony politician who has tried to turn Minnesota into Harris’ home state of California. He seals this ticket’s support for a radical, America-last plan.”
People thought Walz, 60, would bring executive experience rather than a fighting state since he has been Minnesota’s governor since 2018. Before running for the House of Representatives in 2006, he was in the Army National Guard and taught social studies. Biden, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain all liked Folksy Midwestern Walz. It was Walz who started calling Trump and Vance “weird” during the Harris race.
Harris and her choice for vice president will now go on a five-day, seven-state swing tour that starts in Philadelphia on Tuesday night. They will meet with people and stress how important this election is. Liz Allen, who used to be the assistant secretary for global public affairs at the State Department, is already his Harris campaign chief of staff.
Harris named her running mate for president before the deadline on August 7, two weeks before this year’s Democratic National Convention. She did this after getting into a political fight with Ohio’s Republican-controlled lawmakers over the state’s voting rules. Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) signed a bill that extended the state’s deadline so Biden and then Harris could be on its ballots. However, Democrats have been adamant that Trump supporter Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose could cause problems, and they have instead held a virtual roll call vote for the last week.
