GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump had an apocalyptic response to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris selecting Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her vice presidential working mate on Tuesday.
In an electronic mail to his supporters, Trump claimed that Walz, an amiable Midwesterner with a report as governor that progressives love, stated he could be “even worse” for the nation than Harris.
“HE’S THAT BAD,” Trump’s electronic mail learn.
“He’ll unleash HELL ON EARTH and open our borders to the worst criminals conceivable,” the previous president added of Walz.
Walz, a former public faculty trainer and veteran of the U.S. Military Nationwide Guard, pushed via a number of progressive priorities in Minnesota, together with a Medicaid buy-in, paid household and medical depart, a phase-out of fossil fuels, and free faculty lunches for all.
He beforehand represented the state as a member of the U.S. Home of Representatives from 2007 to 2019, the place he was recognized by colleagues as a centrist Democrat.
“To characterize him as left is so unreal,” former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stated Tuesday on MSNBC. “He’s proper down the center. He’s a heartland of America Democrat.”
However Republicans had been respiration a sigh of reduction on Tuesday that Harris didn’t go along with a extra average Democrat like Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. The case for Shapiro principally hinged on bolstering Democrats’ odds of successful his essential battleground state and its 19 electoral votes.
“Harris Feels the Bern and picks Walz. Thanks, Kamala!” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wrote in a social media post, referring to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) and different progressives’ assist for Walz.
“Tim Walz? What a reduction,” added former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway.
However unbiased lawmakers additionally praised the Walz decide. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who left the Democratic Celebration earlier this yr, known as Walz “the actual deal” and stated he would “assist convey our nation nearer collectively and convey stability again to the Democratic Celebration.”
Republicans had been doubtless going to criticize any alternative Harris made, after all. And Walz may nonetheless assist Democrats win over rural and extra conservative voters in Pennsylvania and different Midwestern states like Wisconsin and Michigan.
“One of many issues that stood out to me about Tim is how his convictions on preventing for center class households run deep,” Harris stated in a press release on Tuesday. “It’s private. As a governor, a coach, a trainer, and a veteran, he’s delivered for working households like his personal. We’re going to construct an important partnership. We begin out as underdogs however I consider collectively, we will win this election.”
