All the Wrong People Are Celebrating Tim Walz

Protesters set fire to a police precinct in Minneapolis on May 28, 2020, after the death of George Floyd. (Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii via Getty Images)
Radical Democrats are energized by Harris’s progressive veep pick. That’s a problem for the party, writes Eli Lake.
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When Kamala Harris chose Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate over Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, the radicals within the Democratic Party cheered. An Instagram account run by staffers for Rep. Summer Lee, known as “dear_white_staffers,” posted in all-caps, “WE FUCKING DID IT WE FUCKING WON LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO!!!!!”
It wasn’t a one-o…
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