Following a decisive defeat by former President Donald Trump, the Kamala Harris team is already identifying problems with their campaign — and Harris VP-pick Tim Walz is at the top of the list.
Harris notably passed on Josh Shapiro, who’s the governor of crucial swing state Pennsylvania, as her running mate, reportedly because Shapiro is Jewish and Harris was worried about upsetting the far-Left.
“The blame game has begun inside Harris world,” Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich posted to X, early Wednesday morning.
Harris-Walz surrogate Lindy Li, a member of the DNC National Finance Committee, told Heinrich that Gov. Tim Walz (MN) was a bad choice, and Shapiro could have helped deliver the “blue wall” to Democrats.
“People are wondering tonight what would have happened had Shapiro been on the ticket,” Li said. “And not only in terms of Pennsylvania. He’s famously a moderate. So that would have signaled to the American people that she is not the San Francisco liberal that Trump said she was.”
Lin added that Harris, instead, chose someone to her Left, “who oversaw the protests” in Minnesota. Those 2020 Black Lives Matter riots concerning George Floyd were incredibly destructive for cities across the nation.
Moreover, Walz was notably dogged by a litany of scandals, including his apparent ties to China, his penchant for telling falsehoods, and the exaggeration of his military service.
Li also highlighted how Harris seemingly reversed many of her positions staked out during the 2020 election and her past political career while failing to distance herself from President Joe Biden.
“She knows that it was a mistake to say on ‘The View’ that she couldn’t think of a single thing that she would do differently from the Biden administration,” Li told Heinrich. “That was [an] opener for her to show Americans that she’s going to get tough on the border, that she’s going to take drastic measures to bring down inflation. That was her chance.”
Harris, the Democrats, and their allies in the media also went back to the 2016 and 2020 playbook of calling Trump a fascist and comparing him and his supporters to Nazis — a tactic Lin identified as a mistake.
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