The Trump marketing campaign blasted Vice President Kamala Harris’ operating mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, as a “dangerously liberal extremist,” whereas warning that their imaginative and prescient for the nation is “each People’ nightmare.”
Waltz was tapped as Harris’ vice presidential decide Tuesday morning. The 60-year-old is a former congressman and is in his second time period because the governor of Minnesota – a state that Democrats have reliably gained in presidential elections for many years however that the Trump marketing campaign has aimed toward flipping this cycle.
Lately, Walz attacked former President Trump and his operating mate JD Vance as “bizarre,” a viral insult the Harris marketing campaign has embraced.
The Trump marketing campaign, although, blasted Walz for his liberal insurance policies and views, which they are saying complement Harris completely.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz arrives to talk at a press convention concerning new gun laws on Aug. 1, 2024, in Bloomington, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Pictures)
“It’s no shock that San Francisco Liberal Kamala Harris desires West Coast wannabe Tim Walz as her running-mate – Walz has spent his governorship making an attempt to reshape Minnesota within the picture of the Golden State,” Trump marketing campaign nationwide press secretary Karoline Leavitt informed Fox Information Digital. “Whereas Walz pretends to assist People within the Heartland, when the cameras are off, he believes that rural America is ‘principally cows and rocks’.”
“From proposing his personal carbon-free agenda, to suggesting stricter emission requirements for gas-powered vehicles, and embracing insurance policies to permit convicted felons to vote, Walz is obsessive about spreading California’s dangerously liberal agenda far and huge,” Levitt continued.
She added: “If Walz gained’t inform voters the reality, we are going to: identical to Kamala Harris, Tim Walz is a dangerously liberal extremist, and the Harris-Walz California dream is each American’s nightmare.”
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout a marketing campaign occasion at Westover Excessive Faculty in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on July 18, 2024. (Allison Joyce/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Walz can showcase a slew of progressive coverage victories in Minnesota, together with defending abortion rights, legalizing leisure marijuana and limiting gun entry to curb shootings.
Walz was elected to the Home in 2006 and re-elected 5 occasions, representing Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District, a principally rural district overlaying the southern a part of the state that features a variety of midsize cities. Throughout his final two years on Capitol Hill, he served as rating member of the Home Veterans Affairs Committee.
Walz gained election as governor in 2018 and re-election 4 years later.
Former President Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance applaud on the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee, July 16, 2024. (Reuters/Callaghan O’hare)
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Walz has gained consideration lately together with his feedback about Trump and Vance.
“These are bizarre folks on the opposite aspect, they need to take books away, they need to be in your examination room, that is what it comes all the way down to,” he mentioned on MSNBC final month. “Do not get sugarcoating this, these are bizarre concepts.”
Walz, nonetheless, has confronted criticism for his dealing with of COVID-19 and riots that rocked Minneapolis in 2020, Fox Information Digital beforehand reported.
“[H]e’s been a catastrophe for Minnesota and is by far essentially the most partisan governor that I can bear in mind having,” Minnesota GOP Chairman David Hann informed Fox Information Digital final week. “Going again to 2020, definitely – he did nothing to attempt to cease the riots occurring in Minneapolis. I feel he was petrified of alienating his ‘progressive’ base, who have been supporting the riots. Kamala Harris was elevating cash for the rioters.”
Some critics level to Walz’s memorandum mandating indoor masking throughout the coronavirus pandemic, in addition to organising a hotline to report residents who violated COVID-19 mandates, as FOX 9 Minneapolis reported on the time.
He has additionally taken warmth for telling a gaggle of Democrats that socialism is what some folks would name “neighborliness.”
“Don’t ever draw back from our progressive values,” he mentioned on a “White Dudes for Harris” name on Monday evening. “One particular person’s socialism is one other particular person’s neighborliness.
Harris and Walz are scheduled to kick off a marketing campaign swing by way of all seven essential battleground states beginning on Tuesday, with an occasion in Philadelphia.
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