Harris several times has advocated severe spending cuts for police. The public strongly opposes the “defund the police” movement.

Harris repeatedly has called for street protests to continue even after seeing the protests devolve into violence. Walz outlandishly dragged his feet on the Minneapolis mayor’s request for National Guard troops to put down violent riots that killed three people and injured dozens while partly excusing widespread arson by saying, “The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish unheard.” Public support for Black Lives Matter, though originally strong, has dropped significantly below majority status.

When protests turn to foreign affairs and take place on college campuses, Harris continues her kneejerk support. Campus rowdies agitating on behalf of Gaza Palestinians, she said, are “showing exactly what the human emotion should be,” while calling for an embargo on arms to Israel. Public sentiment, though, is strongly against the campus protesters.

On different schooling issues, Harris and Walz are radically on the wrong side of public opinion. They both get “F” grades from school choice groups, but public support for school choice is sky high. Both the Biden-Harris administration and Walz have countenanced school policies that keep parents from being told about their own children’s newly chosen “gender identities,” but voters overwhelmingly believe schools should disclose such things to parents.

In general, Walz is so radically supportive of transgenderism that he made Minnesota a “sanctuary state” for gender transitions and signed into law provisions that, while open to interpretation, at the very least would let the state, during a custody dispute, temporarily take a child from the home of a Minnesota parent who opposes the child’s gender transition. In other words, not just the thumb but the whole government fist is in favor of the transition, not the skeptical parent. This is not at all where the public is on these issues. While the public is broadly tolerant of transgender people, majorities or large pluralities support recognition of original birth sex, not changed chosen “identity,” in athletics and in bathroom use, while wanting schools to not teach lessons on transgenderism.

Walz also runs afoul of public opinion on other issues, such as his strange apparent love affair with China, which he has visited at least 30 times. He once wrote glowingly to his students in Nebraska about the Chinese communist system, praising it as ensuring that “everyone is the same and everyone shares. … They get food and housing … and would not have to pay a tax.” For the 81% of Americans who look unfavorably on China, though, that might not make Walz popular. Likewise, the public’s distaste for socialism in general, at 55%-42% against, runs counter to Walz saying, “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

Walz is not so neighborly toward infants born alive after botched abortion attempts. Again, these are babies already delivered into the light of day, breathing air on their own. Yet Walz signed a law repealing Minnesota’s Born Alive Infant Protection Act and other, earlier provisions protecting such children. And even on abortion in general, his position is extreme, recognizing a supposedly “fundamental right” to abortion while providing absolutely no statutory limits on abortions at any time, for any reason. More than two-thirds of the public, though, do not support allowing abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy. For her part, Harris, too, has little regard for living, breathing survivors of abortions, having consistently voted against a national version of bills protecting infants born alive.

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Finally, if it is true that nothing is certain for this ticket except (support for) death and taxes, consider the Biden-Harris administration’s passage of a law adding 87,000 agents for the IRS, which is the single least popular agency of government. Some 56% of the public wants that Biden-Harris law repealed.

All of which is to say that once the Harris-Walz sugar high wears off, Republicans have plenty of opportunity to highlight the ticket’s radicalism. If policy were all that mattered, Harris-Walz would be huge losers.