Wow: Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the most left-wing of her VP options, in the process passing over the clear best choice, Gov. Josh Shapiro of swing-state Pennsylvania — plainly because she didn’t dare cross the left by tapping a Jew.
This is an utterly damning sign of how she’d govern — well to the left of Joe Biden, and even more deceptive.
Walz, after all, plays moderate but acts radical.
He slammed DEI mandates on Minnesota soon after taking over in 2018.
His reluctance to restore order amid the 2020 race riots in Minneapolis let major chunks of that city get burned down, for at least $55 million in damage, mostly in majority-black areas.
Add incompetence (or corruption): He also oversaw some of the most egregious COVID-aid fraud in the nation, burning millions in federal funds.
In short, it’s easy to see why Harris felt so comfortable with him: He’s a lot like her — a radical who most media can and will aim to paint as a centrist.
But boy, was this foolish: Pennsylvania is crucial this November, and Shapiro plainly would’ve been a huge asset.
Follow The Post’s coverage on Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz:
- Kamala Harris chooses Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate
- Who is Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ VP pick?
- Tim Walz signed laws catering to illegal migrants, giving them free health care, tuition
- Trump team says it’s relieved Kamala Harris chose ‘extremist’ Tim Walz: ‘An easy opponent’
- Editorial: Kamala Harris bows to the radicals by picking lefty Tim Walz as her running mate
Instead, she’s humiliated him: He’ll have to attend the Harris-Walz rally in Philly on Tuesday, right after being passed over.
And he knows why she snubbed him.
The left has gone ballistic the last week against him, even pushing him to disavow a (perfectly reasonable) essay he wrote as a 20-year-old arguing that no two-state solution is possible until Palestinians stop making Israel’s destruction their top priority.
All her finalists were pro-Israel, but only the Jew suffered the hate.
And Harris yielded (against her own electoral best interests) to the haters.
The press has cheered as she remade her image, not even complaining as she avoids any event where she can’t rely on a teleprompter, nor asking when her campaign website will announce any policies.
(So far, all we have is anonymous aides announcing that she no longer takes x-y-z
radical positions she embraced in her 2020 prez run and as the most far-left member of the Senate.)
But in tapping Walz, Harris showed who she really is — a California lefty who’ll give in to the radicals every time.