Why Harris Picked Walz, and What it Means

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Immediate Republican reaction to Vice President Harris’s choice of Governor Walz as her running mate over Governor Shapiro centered on anti-Israel opposition to Shapiro. Senator Cotton of Arkansas put it this way: “Let’s be honest. Kamala is the most anti-Israel member of Biden’s team, always siding with Hamas and Iran’s interests. Shapiro and Walz’s views on Israel aren’t that different. But Harris catered to her pro-Hamas, antisemitic base who opposed Shapiro because he’s Jewish.”

That could have been a consideration. Yet there are other considerations that might have been even more significant.