The Week: Kamala Chooses Walz

• Even the brain worm is mystified by RFK Jr.’s decisions that day.

• Kamala Harris picked Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate. It was a surprise that she didn’t go with Josh Shapiro, the popular governor of must-win Pennsylvania. But there was a very public pressure campaign against Shapiro, a Jewish supporter of Israel who has criticized antisemitic protesters. Walz, though also a supporter of Israel as contemporary Democrats go, is a favorite of the MSNBC crowd and has not criticized any protesters. After escaping a swing district in the House, he has proven himself generally up to date with progressive fashions and has governed as far left as possible, but is supposed to be “folksy” and nonthreatening. In the early going, he has proved a spirited campaigner, although in order to get a cheap laugh he blighted his introductory speech with a reference to a poisonously stupid internet lie about J. D. Vance. By choosing perhaps the most left-wing governor in America, at least Harris isn’t trying to hide who she is.

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• Even the brain worm is mystified by RFK Jr.’s decisions that day.

• Kamala Harris picked Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate. It was a surprise that she didn’t go with Josh Shapiro, the popular governor of must-win Pennsylvania. But there was a very public pressure campaign against Shapiro, a Jewish supporter of Israel who has criticized antisemitic protesters. Walz, though also a supporter of Israel as contemporary Democrats go, is a favorite of the MSNBC crowd and has not criticized any protesters. After escaping a swing district in the House, he has proven himself generally up to date with progressive fashions and has governed as far left as possible, but is supposed to be “folksy” and nonthreatening. In the early going, he has proved a spirited campaigner, although in order to get a cheap laugh he blighted his introductory speech with a reference to a poisonously stupid internet lie about J. D. Vance. By choosing perhaps the most left-wing governor in America, at least Harris isn’t trying to hide who she is.