Hope that the farthest-left senator in the Democratic Party would govern as a centrist if she secured the presidency was dashed Tuesday when Vice President Kamala Harris chose Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), who has been endorsed by socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), as her running mate.

The most socialist, anti-Israel, pro-terrorist members of the Democratic Party, including Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) pushed Harris to pick Walz because he is a rock-solid radical with a record additionally attractive to them of appeasing criminals, encouraging illegal immigration, and driving up energy prices.

By his own admission, Walz’s response to the George Floyd’s riots was an “abject failure.” Hesitant to offend far-left rioters, he was slow to react, failed to form a coherent response to the violence, and waited far too long before calling up the National Guard to restore order. At least he didn’t also raise money for a Black Lives Matters bail fund, as Harris did, to release violent criminals that went on to rape and murder more innocent civilians.

Walz’s governing incompetence is extensive. His office oversaw the largest theft of taxpayer money during COVID-19. He funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to a corrupt non-profit organization called Feeding Our Future using COVID-19 bailout dollars. FBI Director Christopher Wray called it “the largest pandemic relief fraud scheme yet.”

Thieves running Feeding Our Future were not crafty, openly spending millions on luxury cars, houses, and jewelry. According to a state legislature audit, Walz chose to ignore red flags and funneled more and more taxpayer money to his corrupt political allies.

When he wasn’t enriching corrupt left-wing non-profit organizations with taxpayer money, Walz was busy shutting down schools, denying learning loss, and setting up hotlines so Minnesotans could rat each other out for breaking lockdown rules. 

As intent as Walz was on making sure innocent people were punished for avoiding lockdowns, he has been even keener on making sure illegal immigrants are as welcome as possible in the United States. In addition to giving them driver’s licenses, Walz also signed legislation making free healthcare and free college tuition available to them. To pay for all this, Walz raised taxes on gas, cars, and retail deliveries.

He shares Harris’s radical environmental agenda, which has sent gas and energy prices soaring in California. Walz recently signed legislation requiring all electricity consumed by Minnesota to be carbon-free by 2040. This is a preposterous goal that will inflict the same economic pain Californians have been feeling under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) misguided priorities for years.

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The message of Harris’s choice of Walz couldn’t be clearer: A Harris-Walz administration would be the most far-left radical government in the history of the U.S. The southern border would be undefended. Illegal immigrants would be given amnesty, healthcare, and college tuition, paid for by high taxes on citizens. Fossil fuel production would be abandoned, as has been done in California and Minnesota, and consumers would be left with soaring energy prices that kill manufacturing jobs and make it harder for young people to have families.

Incompetent, extreme, and weak. That is Walz’s record. He is the perfect (perfectly awful) running mate for Harris.