Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany believes former President Donald Trump is eager to go after Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 selection as her running mate due to their liberal backgrounds.<\/p>\n
Harris\u2019 campaign on Tuesday announced she chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a far-left, self-avowed socialist, to be her running mate, leading to immediate criticism from Republicans and right-leaning voters.<\/p>\n
Because of how \u201cfar to the left of America\u201d Harris\u2019 politics have been, McEnany said on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom\u201d that she believes the Trump camp is \u201ccheering\u201d about Harris\u2019 choice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a stunning choice. I imagine there\u2019s a lot of cheering at Mar-a-Lago at the moment. Look, Tim Walz, he\u2019s no one to scoff at. He unseated a six-term Republican in Congress, he won a conservative district. He began as a moderate and then he had a radical transformation as soon as he got a trifecta in Minnesota. I think it is fair to call him a progressive in sheep\u2019s clothing,\u201d McEnany said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you look at his record over the last few years, what you see are transgender surgeries for minors, carbon electrical grid by 2040, driver\u2019s licenses for illegal immigrants. In function, his abortion policy allows abortion until birth. These are policies that are far to the left of America. And as John McCormick at The Wall Street Journal pointed out, Kamala Harris has to do the exact opposite of what Tim Walz did,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTim Walz became more progressive. Kamala Harris is trying to become more moderate. But Republicans will say, \u2018You have shed all your progressive policies, but yet you chose a progressive instead of the guy who outperformed Donald Trump and Joe Biden in Pennsylvania, and that man\u2019s name is Josh Shapiro,\u2019\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, the word coming out of the Kamala Harris camp to reporters was \u2018chemistry.\u2019 She wanted someone with whom she had chemistry. I would love to know what Obama said to her on the phone, because this time last cycle, four years ago, Joe Biden was having apprehensions about choosing Kamala Harris,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n
McEnany concluded: \u201cHe called Obama, he expressed these reservations to Obama, per CNN, and Obama said back to him, \u2018None of that is as important as winning.\u2019 So I wonder what Obama said. Because if this is a chemistry choice, that\u2019s fantastic if you\u2019ve got chemistry, but if you don\u2019t make it to Pennsylvania Avenue in two months, the chemistry doesn\u2019t matter. So I\u2019ve got to believe this was an innate decision of how she was feeling, but feelings should go out the window when you\u2019re looking at the path to 270.\u201d<\/p>\n