President Donald Trump has revealed that he is “thrilled” with Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s choice of radical Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
On Wednesday morning, Trump responded to “very liberal” Walz being tapped as Harris’s running mate.
Trump said he “could not be more thrilled” that the vice president made the “shocking pick.”
“He’s a very, very liberal man, and he’s a shocking pick,” Trump told the “Fox & Friends” co-hosts during an interview.
“I could not be more thrilled.”
Trump then recalled one of the “only” times he had interacted with him.
He explained how Walz reached out to him for help during the pandemic because his house was surrounded by anti-lockdown protesters.
“They only had one guard, I guess it was at the mansion or his house in some form,” he said.
“And he called me and I said, ‘What do you want me to do about it?’
“I was in the White House,” Trump noted.
“He said, ‘If you would put out the word that I’m a good person,’ and I did, I put out the word I said, ‘He’s a good person. I hope everything’s good.’
“And everybody put down their flags and took their flags with them.
“But they took the American flags and their MAGA flags and they left it.
“It was thousands of people,” he continued.
The 45th president warned Walz is more radical than Harris on key issues like immigration and crime.
Trump’s warning comes as critics worry the Harris-Walz ticket could be the most far-left in the nation’s history.
“If you look at his record with no walls, no security, let everybody in,” he said.
“He’s worse than they are.
“Nobody knew how radical left she was, but he’s a smarter version of her, if you want to know the truth.”
“There’s never been a ticket like this,” he continued.
“This is a ticket that would want this country to go communist immediately, if not sooner.”
“He’s very heavy into transgender,” Trump noted of Walz’s far-left policies.
“Anything transgender he thinks is great, and he’s not where the country is on anything.”
Harris announced on Tuesday she chose Walz to be her vice presidential running mate, just hours before the pair made their first public appearance together at a campaign rally in Philadelphia.
“I am proud to announce that I’ve asked @Tim_Walz to be my running mate,” Harris officially announced on X.
“As a governor, a coach, a teacher, and a veteran, he’s delivered for working families like his.”
The naming of the 60-year-old Walz was not a shocker, as his name was instantly thought to be in contention in the two weeks since Harris succeeded President Biden as the party’s standard-bearer.
“This is a shocking pick, and I think it’s very insulting to Jewish people,” Trump said.
“And I think it’s very insulting to people that want security.
“I think it was very insulting to anything having to do with making America great again.”
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Walz, a former congressman, is in his second term as governor of Minnesota.
Democrats have reliably won the state in presidential elections for decades.
However, the Trump campaign has aimed at flipping Minnesota this cycle.
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