(CP) The Kamala Harris campaign announced Tuesday morning that she has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her vice presidential running mate.
A former highschool teacher and military veteran, the 60-year-old Walz was purportedly chosen by Harris to appeal to rural, right-leaning Midwest voters.
Harris’ decision to pick Walz to be on the Democratic ticket has received many reactions from each the fitting and left, including several Christian activists.
Here are five reactions from ideologically diverse Christian political activists to Harris’ selection.
New York Times columnist David French shared his opinions on the collection of Tim Walz as Kamala Harris’ vice presidential running mate on Threads.
“Trump has the next floor than Harris (cultish base), but a lower ceiling. He’s never demonstrated majority appeal. Harris has the next ceiling (the Democratic coalition is greater) and a lower floor. She doesn’t have the identical ride-or-die base,” wrote French.
“The Walz pick strikes me as a ‘keep our team together’ pick with the knowledge that her team is greater. I liked [Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro] as a ‘make our team greater’ pick. But if Harris can keep the team together, she wins.”
Conservative Christian author and podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey took to X to convey her objection to Harris and Walz being elected in November.
“Harris’s & Walz’s records show us exactly what they stand for,” tweeted Stuckey. “Under them, you will be poorer, less protected & less free. But at the least they’ll be sure doctors can kill full-term babies.”
Examples of things that Stuckey said the 2 supported included “School shutdowns, vaccine & mask mandates,” “Soft-on-crime policies that support violent riots & repeat criminals,” “Mandating men have access to ladies’ bathrooms,” “Abortion through all 9 months, paid for by the taxpayer,” “Stifling free speech in service to LGBTQ & abortion lobbies,” “Open border policy that may lead to 1,000 more Laken Rileys,” and “Economic policy that causes more inflation.”
Timothy Head, executive director of the conservative Christian group Faith & Freedom Coalition, released a statement denouncing the collection of Walz.
Head said that while Democrats “will attempt to recast Tim Walz as a centrist,” he believed that the general public official was actually “essentially the most left-wing governor in Minnesota’s history.
“Walz’s Minnesota has change into an oasis for left-wing radicals, pro-abortion Democrats, criminals, and illegal immigrants, while hard-working Americans and faithful Christians have been frolicked to dry,” stated Head.
“As Governor, he enshrined abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, enacted the ‘Trans Refuge’ bill to criminalize therapy for same-sex attracted individuals and promote access to sex-change surgeries and cross-sex hormone treatments for minors, even inviting a 12-year-old ‘transgender’ child to be present on the bill signing.”
Head also believed that the governor exhibited “weak leadership in the course of the 2020 riots when Walz allowed Minneapolis to burn for 3 days before calling within the National Guard.”
“He can’t be counted on to guard people of religion. In some ways, his policies and leadership are ruining Minnesota and as Kamala Harris’ Vice President, he would do the identical thing to our nation,” Head added.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, a notable African American political activist, took to X to specific his support for the collection of Walz as Harris’ running mate.
Sharpton’s statement included a video of Walz attending the funeral of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old African American who was killed by a police officer in Minnesota in 2021.
“In 2020, we demanded justice for George Floyd in Minneapolis. Governor Walz listened to our calls and appointed Attorney General Ellison to steer the investigation. This showed me he’s a person who listens and acts in the very best interests of his constituents,” tweeted Sharpton.
“We can trust Governor Walz to bring the identical openness as Kamala Harris’s vp. He might be a reliable partner as she leads the nation.”
Sharpton also believes that Walz “has shown he is not afraid to confront those that seek to maneuver our country backward, which can help us move forward” and that he’ll “support Kamala Harris as she goals to change into the primary Black female President, breaking significant barriers in the method.”
Terry Schilling, president of the socially conservative American Principles Project, released a statement in response to Walz being chosen as Harris’ vice presidential running mate.
Schilling argued that Walz was “one among the few Democrats whose radical record rivals” that of Vice President Kamala Harris, labeling the ticket as advancing a “far-left cultural agenda.”
“He has thrown his support behind efforts to eviscerate parental rights, inject gender ideology and other far-left ideas into schools, and open up girls’ sports and personal spaces to males. Under his watch, Minnesota has change into probably the most dangerous states in America for folks,” stated Schilling.
“It’s critical that folks recognize the stakes, which is why our super PAC has committed to spending $18 million to tell thousands and thousands of persuadable voters in swing states in regards to the Democrats’ extreme cultural agenda. Harris and Walz can’t be allowed to run or hide from this record, and we are going to be sure they’re forced to confront it.”
