Republicans rush to try to define Tim Walz
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Republicans moved quickly Tuesday to try to define Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, whom Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen as her running mate.
Republicans moved quickly Tuesday to try to define Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, whom Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen as her running mate. “Kamala Harris just doubled-down on her radical vision for America by tapping another left-wing extremist as her VP nominee,” the narrator says in a new digital video from Donald Trump’s campaign that will be part of an upcoming ad buy. The former president’s campaign, which has spent the last several days compiling opposition research on Walz, plans to attack him as someone who is more liberal than both Harris and President Joe Biden, with a key focus on his record as governor for the last four years, senior Trump campaign advisers and people close to the former president told CNN. Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, responded to the pick Tuesday morning by saying it “highlights how radical Kamala Harris is.” Trump’s advisers said that while they will pull on details from his 12 years in Congress, their goal is to paint Walz — a former teacher and Army National Guard veteran — as someone who has been in lockstep with progressives over the last four years and a key champion of the Biden administration’s policies. “She found a 60-year-old White guy who has the same crazy ideas she does,” one of the advisers said. “With both (Harris) and Walz, you’re going to have multiple years of various records to go through, but the bottom line is, where has he been for the last four years? The last four years are what matter most.”
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