Former President Donald Trump gave his initial reaction on Wednesday to Vice President Kamala Harris choosing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.
"He's a very, very liberal man, and he's a shocking pick. I could not be more thrilled," Trump said during an interview with Fox & Friends.
The former president added that Walz is more "radical" than Harris when it comes to immigration and crime: "If you look at his record with no walls, no security, let everybody in. He's worse than they are," he said. "Nobody knew how radical left she was, but he's a smarter version of her, if you want to know the truth."
On the issue, Walz has said that he supports a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants. In a 2021 letter to Democratic leaders in Congress, he urged such a path for "Dreamers" brought to the United States as children, for essential workers, for people whose countries are in crisis and for the families of those immigrants, according to The New York Times.
He also signed a bill last year that made undocumented immigrants eligible for Minnesota's driver's license, which he argued would make roads safer by reducing unlicensed driving. And more recently, even though he does not have a clear public record on border-security policies, especially as his state lies on the other side of the country, he recently made the news after criticizing Donald Trump's stance on the issue, particularly the notion of a border wall being effective.
"He talks about this wall. I always say, let me know how high it is. If it is twenty five feet, then I'll invest in a thirty foot ladder factory. That's not how you stop this. You stop this using electronics, you stop it using more border control agents, and you stop it by having a legal system that allows for that tradition that allowing folks to come here just like my relatives did," he said in a CNN interview last week.
Trump, nonetheless, appeared confident of his chances to win in the November elections: "There's never been a ticket like this. This is a ticket that would want this country to go communist immediately, if not sooner. We want no security. We want no anything. He's very heavy into transgender. Anything transgender he thinks is great, and he's not where the country is on anything."
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