Harris’ Pick Of Far-Left Gov. Walz Gets Immediate Pushback
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign announced on Tuesday that she has selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a far-left, self-avowed socialist, as her running mate, prompting immediate criticism from Republicans and right-leaning voters.
During a segment on “Fox & Friends” following the announcement, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) discussed many of Walz’s radical positions.
“The top of the ticket is what really matters. Kamala Harris’s choice of Tim Walz reinforces what we already knew: that she’s a dangerous San Francisco liberal. Just consider during the BLM riots in 2020, Tim Walz allowed rioters, arsonists, and looters to rampage through Minneapolis. Kamala Harris then turned around and encouraged contributions for the bail fund for the few that were actually arrested.
“Kamala Harris has said she wants to decriminalize illegal immigration and stands up for illegal aliens and fights for their rights. Tim Walz has turned his state into a sanctuary state where violent illegal felons…he’s given driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, he’s given college tuition to illegal aliens,” Cotton continued. “Kamala Harris is a San Francisco liberal and Tim Walz is a self-professed socialist. He says that one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness. So the American people are gonna make their decision based on Kamala Harris’s dangerous record but Tim Walz simply exposes that record once again.”
“My in-laws live in Minnesota. The only thing they’re happy about is that maybe this means now they’ll get rid of their failed governor. But it’ll be even worse for all of us because the Harris-Walz record shows what a disaster they would be in the White House. It confirms again that they will be governing from the far left if they get into the White House. It would mean higher taxes, more inflation, more crime, more chaos at the border, and more war and chaos around the world,” he added.
“I served with Tim Walz in the House. I know him,” Cotton noted.
Earlier, Harris used a campaign rally following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 contest to push a debunked claim that former President Donald Trump intends to enact a nationwide “ban” on abortion.
“We who believe in reproductive freedom will stop Donald Trump’s extreme abortion bans because we trust women to make decisions about their own bodies and not have their government tell them what to do,” Harris told a crowd at a school auditorium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Harris continues to repeat this false claim, including in an X post earlier this month.
“Donald Trump would ban abortion nationwide,” she wrote. “President [Joe Biden] and I will do everything in our power to stop him and restore women’s reproductive freedom.”
Users widely criticized her claim and cited reporting from CNN, BBC, The Associated Press, and The New York Times that refuted it using Community Notes, the platform’s feature that allows readers to provide context to posts deemed inaccurate or lacking in it.
X CEO Elon Musk, a supporter of Trump, joined in, accusing her of “lying.”
“When will politicians, or at least the intern who runs their account, learn that lying on this platform doesn’t work anymore?” Musk wrote.
Trump has stated that states should have the final say over abortion restrictions. Earlier this year, he released a video explaining his views on Truth Social.
“My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both. And whatever they decide must be the law of the land – in this case, the law of the state,” Trump said.
Trump has suggested there should be restrictions on abortion after a certain point during pregnancy, specifically around 15 weeks.