Presumptive Democrat nominee Kamala Harris announced on Tuesday that she selected Minnesota’s far-left Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate, bucking Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro who was largely considered to be the favorite heading into Monday. The choice has been celebrated by both radical progressives such as Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) and many conservatives, who believe Gov. Walz will harm the Democrats’ electoral chances.
“My friend and fellow Governor @Tim_Walz will make an outstanding Vice President. A high ranking military veteran, retired school teacher and football coach, and proud father, Tim is a fighter for the American people. @KamalaHarris has made an excellent choice,” said Gov. Mills on X.
Mills, who took office at the same time as Walz in 2019, is also largely aligned with his radical positions on issues like climate change, illegal immigration, abortion, and child genital mutilation.
Mills followed up her X post with an additional statement provided to the Portland Press Herald, leveling more praise in the new Vice Presidential nominee’s direction.
“I count him as a friend and colleague. I have seen him in a leadership position where he has forged bipartisan consensus on veterans issues, for instance. He is smart, approachable and honest. I respect him deeply,” said Mills.
President Joe Biden’s social media manager also joined Mills in issuing praise for Harris’s new running mate.
“The Harris-Walz ticket will be a powerful voice for working people and America’s great middle class. They will be the strongest defenders of our personal freedoms and our democracy. And they will ensure that America continues to lead the world and play its role as the indispensable nation,” said Biden’s social media handler on X.
Interestingly, many prominent conservative commenters also celebrated the pick, but for entirely different reasons.
“Picking Walz is a massive gift to the Republicans. He’s a radical Leftist from a non-swing state with a long history of insane statements, who presided over the burning down of his state in 2020. Kamala picked him because he’s not a Jew, and she’s Too Online™,” said Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro on X.
“Walz is a massive gift to Republicans. The media keeps trying to hand Kamala the race on a silver platter, but apparently she refused to accept it,” said former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on X.
Conservatives were delighted that Harris had not picked the more moderate Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Penn.), who would have likely given Democrats an edge in Pennsylvania.
It is widely believed that Harris rejected Gov. Shapiro, who was considered a frontrunner for her running mate, because she feared that he, as a supporter of Israel and an ethnic Jew, would alienate the substantial pro-Palestine wing of the Democratic Party.
Following Harris’s announcement, conservatives were quick to bring Walz’s radical record into the open, hoping that it would drive centrist voters away from Harris, combating her “Republicans for Harris” appeal to moderates.
Minutes after Walz was announced as Harris’ pick, conservatives began dredging up his policies supporting gender ideology and genital mutilations for children.
Last year, Walz signed a bill requiring that all schools in Minnesota stock tampons and other period products in the boys’ bathrooms.
Shortly after Walz was revealed as Harris’s running mate, conservatives online began referring to the governor as “Tampon Tim.”
Requiring menstrual products in men’s bathrooms is far from the most egregious thing that “Tampon Tim” has done to foist gender ideology on minors.
Walz also took executive action last year to ensure that his state would have no restrictions on “gender-affirming care” for minors, which could include permanent genital mutilating surgeries or irreversible drugs such as puberty blockers, which have been shown to cause sterility and stunt bone development.
The executive order explicitly protects any providers of these surgeries or drugs from prosecution and, similar to Maine’s controversial “transgender trafficking” law, grants protections to anyone coming to Minnesota from out of state to receive the transgender treatments.
The Minnesota governor has also come under fire for his handling of the Black Lives Matter riots, which brought murder, arson, and looting to Minneapolis following the death of career criminal George Floyd.
Walz delayed sending the National Guard to suppress the riots, thereby allowing the riots to grow larger and more violent.
“They make an interesting tag team because of course Tim Walz allowed rioters to burn down Minneapolis in the summer of 2020, and then the few that got caught, Kamala Harris helped bail them out of jail,” said Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio).
While his state was burning, Walz was issuing an indoor mask mandate and promulgating a snitch line, where people could call and report their neighbors for violating stay-at-home orders or orders restricting public gatherings.
On abortion, Walz could not be further to the left, and has earned a staggering 0% rating from the National Right to Life.
According to Walz himself, his abortion stance was so extreme that Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested that he should rein it in.
During his time as governor, Walz signed a bill that essentially legalized all abortions up to birth and repealed a law that required women seeking abortions to undergo an “informed consent” process and wait 24 hours before the procedure.
He also signed a bill removing funding from crisis pregnancy centers, which seek to help women with troubled pregnancies or strained economic situations cope with their hardships without resorting to abortion.
During his time in the U.S. House, Walz apologized after accidentally voting in favor of a bill that would have required doctors to preserve the life of a baby born during an attempted abortion, suggesting that he supports the murder of babies outside the womb.
Under Walz, Minnesota has become a more enticing place for illegal immigrants.
In 2023, Walz signed a bill allowing illegal immigrants to receive driver’s licenses in the state, which will likely make it easier for them to illegally vote in state and federal elections.
Most recently, Walz appeared on the cringeworthy “White Dudes for Harris” fundraising Zoom call where he boldly claimed that “one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness” while telling people never to “shy away from our progressive values.”
The bad press for Walz doesn’t end with his political blunders from the past few years.
Immediately after he was announced as Harris’s pick, Walz’s old mugshot from a 1995 arrest resurfaced to haunt the Harris campaign.
According to reports, Walz fled from a state trooper because he believed he was being chased before he was eventually apprehended and arrested.
Walz’s campaign claimed that he was not drunk and was simply deaf at the time, and thus unable to hear or respond clearly to the officer’s statements.
The arresting officer’s report, however, shows that Walz failed a field sobriety test and a breathalyzer test.
He was reportedly arrested after going 96 mph in a 55 mph zone.
The unfortunate incident occurred while Walz was a schoolteacher.
Harris’s campaign has been highlighting Walz’s military service in the National Guard, possibly in an attempt to counter the good optics of Sen. Vance’s service in the Marines.
However, Walz’s military career may not be as illustrious as Harris’s campaign wants voters to believe.
A 2018 letter from retired Command Sergeants Major Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr accused Walz of stolen valor and suggested that he did not, as he has claimed, end his military career with the rank of Command Sergeant Major.
According to the letter, Walz was promoted to the rank, but that rank was later revoked upon his retirement from the military because his retirement violated the terms under which he entered the Army Sergeants Major Academy, which required him to serve two years in the military after promotion.
Although Walz was promoted in 2004, he retired from service in 2005 after he was notified that his unit would be deployed to Iraq.
“The bottom line in all of this is gut-wrenching and hard to explain. When the nation called, he quit,” said the letter.
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