The Trump campaign criticized Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Governor Joe Biden. Tim WalzHe labeled them “dangerous liberal extremists,” warning that their vision for the country is “every American’s worst nightmare.”
The waltz was harnessed Trump announced Harris as his vice presidential nominee on Tuesday morning. Harris, 60, is a former congressman and is serving her second term as governor of Minnesota — a state where Democrats have consistently won presidential elections for decades but where the Trump campaign is aiming to reverse the cycle.
Most recently, Walz attacked former President Trump and his fellow candidate J.D. Vance by calling them “weirdos,” a viral insult adopted by the Harris campaign.
However, the Trump campaign criticized Walz’s liberal policies and views, which they say are a perfect fit for Harris.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz arrives to speak at a press conference regarding new gun legislation on August 1, 2024 in Bloomington, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
“It’s no surprise that San Francisco liberal Kamala Harris wants West Coast candidate Tim Walz to be her vice president — Walz has spent his governorship trying to transform Minnesota into the image of the Golden State,” Carolyn Levitt, the Trump campaign’s national press secretary, told Fox News Digital. “While Walz pretends to support Americans in the Heartland, when the cameras are off, he believes rural America is ‘mostly cows and stones.’”
Levitt added, “From proposing his own carbon-free agenda, suggesting stricter emissions standards for gas-powered cars, and adopting policies to allow convicted felons to vote, Walz is obsessed with spreading California’s dangerous liberal agenda far and wide.”
He added: “If Walz won’t tell voters the truth, we will: Like Kamala Harris, Tim Walz is a dangerous liberal extremist, and the Harris-Walz California dream is every American’s nightmare.”
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at Westover High School on July 18, 2024 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. (ALISON JOYCE/AFP via Getty Images)
Walz can tout progressive policy victories in Minnesota, including protecting abortion rights, legalizing marijuana for recreational use and restricting gun access to curb shootings.
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 several medium-sized cities. During his last two years on Capitol Hill, he served as ranking member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
Walz won the governor’s election in 2018 and won reelection four years later.
Former President Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance applaud at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 16, 2024. (Reuters/Callaghan O’Hare)
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Walz has recently attracted attention for his comments about Trump and Vance.
“There are these weird people on the other side, they want to take away books, they want to be in your exam room, that’s it,” he said on MSNBC last month. “Don’t make too much of it, these are weird ideas.”
However, Walz has faced criticism for his handling of COVID-19 and the 2020 riots in Minneapolis, as Fox News Digital previously reported.
“(He) has been a disaster for Minnesota and is the most partisan governor I can ever remember,” Minnesota GOP Chairman David Hahn told Fox News Digital last week. “Going back to 2020, of course — he did nothing to try to stop the riots that were going on in Minneapolis. I think he was afraid of alienating his ‘progressive’ base, who were supporting the riots.” Kamala Harris Raising funds for rioters,
Some critics point to Walz’s memo mandating mask wearing indoors during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as setting up a hotline to report residents violating COVID-19 orders. Fox 9 Minneapolis reported those days.
He has also drawn criticism for telling a group of Democrats that socialism is what some call “neighborliness.”
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“Never back down from our progressive values,” he said on a “White Dudes for Harris” call Monday night. “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.
Harris and Walz will launch their campaign in all seven crucial battleground states with an event in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
