President Donald Trump’s campaign has issued a warning to the American people after VP Kamala Harris picked radical Democrat Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate for the November election.
The Trump camp blasted Walz as a “dangerously liberal extremist.”
Team Trump is warning that the Haris-Walz vision for the country is “every American’s nightmare.”
Waltz was tapped as Harris’ vice presidential pick Tuesday morning.
The 60-year-old is a former congressman and is in his second term as the governor of Minnesota.
Democrats have reliably won the state in presidential elections for decades but the Trump campaign has aimed at flipping Minnesota this cycle.
Recently, Walz attacked Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance as “weird.”
The Harris campaign has since embraced the viral insult.
The Trump campaign has shot back and blasted Walz for his far-left policies and views, which complement Harris perfectly.
In a statement, Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said:
“It’s no surprise that San Francisco Liberal Kamala Harris wants West Coast wannabe Tim Walz as her running-mate – Walz has spent his governorship trying to reshape Minnesota in the image of the Golden State.
“While Walz pretends to support Americans in the Heartland when the cameras are off, he believes that rural America is ‘mostly cows and rocks’.”
“From proposing his own carbon-free agenda to suggesting stricter emission standards for gas-powered cars, and embracing policies to allow convicted felons* to vote, Walz is obsessed with spreading California’s dangerously liberal agenda far and wide,” Levitt continued.
She added: “If Walz won’t tell voters the truth, we will: just like Kamala Harris, Tim Walz is a dangerously liberal extremist, and the Harris-Walz California dream is every American’s nightmare.”
Walz can showcase a slew of progressive policy victories in Minnesota, including protecting abortion rights, legalizing recreational marijuana, and restricting gun access.
Walz was elected to the House in 2006 and re-elected five times, representing Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District, a mostly rural district covering the southern part of the state that includes a number of midsize cities.
During his last two years on Capitol Hill, he served as a ranking member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
Walz won Minnestota’s gubernatorial election as governor in 2018 and was re-elected four years later.
The governor has gained attention recently with his comments about Trump and Vance.
“These are weird people on the other side, they want to take books away, they want to be in your exam room, that’s what it comes down to,” he said on MSNBC last month.
“Don’t get sugarcoating this, these are weird ideas.”
Walz, however, has faced criticism for his handling of COVID-19 and for fueling the riots that rocked Minneapolis in 2020.
Just last week, Minnesota GOP Chairman David Hann said:
“[H]e’s been a disaster for Minnesota and is by far the most partisan governor that I can remember having.
“Going back to 2020, certainly – he did nothing to try to stop the riots going on in Minneapolis.
“I think he was fearful of alienating his ‘progressive’ base, who were supporting the riots. Kamala Harris was raising money for the rioters.”
Walz also issued a memorandum mandating indoor masking during the pandemic, as well as setting up a hotline to report residents who violated totalitarian COVID-19 mandates, as FOX 9 Minneapolis reported at the time.
He has also taken heat for telling a group of Democrats that socialism is what some people would call “neighborliness.”
“Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values,” he said on a “White Dudes for Harris” call on Monday night.
“One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
Harris and Walz are scheduled to kick off a campaign swing through all seven crucial battleground states starting on Tuesday.
The first event is in Philadelphia.
