Former President Donald Trump’s campaign wasted no time Tuesday attacking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, painting him a dangerous liberal who will lurch the Democratic ticket even further left.
Almost shortly after reports that Vice President Kamala Harris picked Mr. Walz to be her running mate, the Trump team said the selection proves its claim that she’s a radical liberal.
“It’s no surprise that San Francisco Liberal Kamala Harris wants West Coast wannabe Tim Walz as her running mate — Walz has spent his governorship trying to reshape Minnesota in the image of the Golden State,” said Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, who called the Harris-Walz ticket “every American’s nightmare.”
Ms. Leavitt pointed to a recording of Mr. Walz dismissing rural Republican areas of Minnesota, which he represented in Congress for 12 years, as “mostly cows and rocks.”
“From proposing his own carbon-free agenda, to suggesting stricter emission standards for gas-powered cars and embracing policies to allow convicted felons to vote, Walz is obsessed with spreading California’s dangerously liberal agenda far and wide,” she said.
On social media, the Trump campaign’s super PAC levied a similar attack.
“Tim Walz is an incompetent liberal that doesn’t know how to govern. He and Kamala Harris are a great match,” the super PAC posted.
In a separate fundraiser, the Trump campaign said he’s even more “dangerously liberal” than Ms. Harris, adding he won’t protect the U.S. border and will promote the Green New Deal, which will siphon trillions of taxpayer dollars to climate initiatives.
“He’s that bad,” the campaign said in its fundraising email.
The Trump campaign also signaled one avenue of attack in a social media post, noting that one of the largest government scams happened under Mr. Walz’s watch.
In 2022, Minnesota’s U.S. attorney announced federal charges against the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, which defrauded the U.S. government of $250 million that was earned for a nutrition program meant to feed low-income children.
Authorities indicted 48 people connected to the nonprofit, but no one in the Walz administration who awarded the contracts was ever fired.
Also in 2022, a federal judge rebuked Mr. Walz for saying he and Minnesota Education Commissioner Heather Mueller repeatedly made inaccurate statements to the public about a 2021 court order regarding the Feeding Our Future con.
• Jeff Mordock can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.
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