“My record is so pro-choice Nancy Pelosi asked me if I should tone it down”
By Dave Andrusko
When Democrats “persuaded” President Joe Biden to withdraw, it was clearly an act of desperation. He was floundering with ever-worsening polling numbers.
On cue Vice President Kamala Harris, who is monomaniacally pro-abortion, took up the mantle. However, as Lisa Lerer of the New York Times writes
Ms. Harris, a California Democrat, has never won an election as a solo candidate outside the liberal bastion of California, where races often hinge not on winning swing voters but on successfully navigating intraparty fights
What to do. How about bringing in as her vice president an “amiable,” “centrist,” “scrappy,” “cultural moderate,” “Everyman”? Enter Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota.
I’m from Minnesota and most of my wife’s family and mine still live there. He may wear overalls but Walz is equally pro-abortion and ultra-liberal on every flashpoint issue of the day.
Ben Shapiro memorably describes Walz as “Bernie Sanders from Minnesota. He’s Bernie Sanders with the Fargo accent. A radical leftist.”
Yesterday we ran three stories about Walz. Besides this story, we have another today from Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) headlined “Walz’s record on life: Elderly, newborns, and others pay the price for absolutism and neglect.”
The lead paragraph reads “Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s choice as running mate, brings to the presidential race a long track record of abortion-up-to-birth extremism, opposition to protection for vulnerable newborns, and policies that harm elderly and disabled patients.”
The Daily Wire’s Leif Le Mahieu gives a chilling example:
After he voted for a bill in 2018 that would protect babies who survive botched abortions, he apologized and said that he had accidentally voted for the measure.
“Accidentally voted for HR4712 today,” he said. “It was an honest mistake. I meant to vote NO, as I did on an identical bill last Congress. My apologies for the confusion. I’ll keep fighting for women’s access to health care.”
Walz is so comfortable with abortion that he once said’ “My record is so pro-choice Nancy Pelosi asked me if I should tone it down,” adding, “I stand with Planned Parenthood.”
Finally, for now, MSNBC data reporter Steve Kornacki punctured the notion that Walz is a kind of horse-whisperer to conservatives and will help Harris carry Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
“Look at his electoral history, Tim Walz’s in 2022, and the idea that he’s got this automatic appeal with these small town areas in those three key battleground states, you don’t see it in what he actually did on the ballot in 2022. Now, that doesn’t mean it can’t happen. You know, see how this story once it gets told, how does it resonate with voters? Does it? I mean, could. You have no idea of knowing when these things start. But what we can look at here is what he’s actually done as a candidate in Minnesota. And honestly, when you look at Walz’s victory in 2022 in Minnesota, it looks like Biden’s victory in Minnesota in 2020 — not a different coalition.
Mediaite’s Isaac Schorr summarized that critique:
“The Democrats’ hope is that he’s going to appeal to the blue-collar areas in these other three states, maybe he will, but when you look at what he’s done in Minnesota, you don’t quite see that,” Kornacki said.
MCCL had a warning for those lulled by Walz’s folksy manner:
“Tim Walz isn’t like your favorite grandpa,” said Cathy Blaeser, co-executive director of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life. He’s a threat to your grandpa—and to unborn and newborn children, too. He’s a strident ideologue, an abortion absolutist, and an ominous sign of what a Harris administration would portend.”