Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate on Tuesday. Many in the mainstream media have highlighted Walz as a normal Midwestern American. But a closer look into his beliefs reveals his true colors and a sickness that has crept into American politics.

Walz’s Past

Walz was raised in Butte, Nebraska. He joined the United States Army at 17, leaving his unit before it deployed to Iraq. He’s held multiple teaching jobs throughout his life and enjoys hunting, running, tinkering on his vehicle, and taking his son’s dog to a park daily. Major media outlets have pointed out such details, claiming “it would be hard to find a more vivid representative of the American heartland than Walz.”

Many of his early political moves make Walz seem moderate. He won his first political office via upset in 2006, beating a six-term incumbent in a Republican county. The National Rifle Association (nra) donated to his campaigns and gave him multiple “A” ratings and a 2010 endorsement for defending the Second Amendment. In 2016, Walz appeared on Guns & Ammo magazine’s list of top 20 politicians for gun owners. From 2015 to 2017, most of the bills Walz cosponsored were introduced by non-Democrats.

This moderate appearance could help Harris’s campaign by providing what seems to be balance to her extremes. In 2019, GovTrack rated Harris as “the leftmost Democratic senator.” Overall, Harris is second behind Bernie Sanders (an Independent) for the most radical leftist in the Senate. Even the left fears Sanders is too radical for the presidency, so it seems Harris will have to temper her radical agenda to win the presidency.

But a deeper look at Walz’s recent political moves shows that any appearance of him being moderate is only an appearance.

Radical Turn

Walz first ran for governor of Minnesota in 2018, the year of the Parkland, Florida, shooting. This led Walz to change his tune on gun control. He worked to backtrack his previous stance on guns and the nra in an op-ed, calling the association “the biggest single obstacle to passing the most basic measures to prevent gun violence in America.” He said he supported a ban on “assault weapons.”

In 2020, Walz oversaw the “Summer of Love” riots that occurred after George Floyd’s death and led Minnesota’s reaction to covid-19. He let his cities burn, was extremely strict with covid procedures, and even opened a hotline so citizens could report their neighbors for disobeying his lockdown rules.

Walz has also supported abortion in any trimester (even when the baby could easily survive outside the womb), driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants, expanded voting rights for felons, legalizing recreational marijuana, tampons in male restrooms in schools, and transgender surgeries for minors (with or without parental approval). He also mandated Minnesota utility companies to switch to 100 percent carbon-free energy by 2040. Since Walz took office, state homicides are up 71 percent and Minneapolis carjackings are up 548 percent.

Donald Trump is correct in calling the Harris-Walz ballot “the most radical-left duo in American history.” Why would Harris choose a running mate whose views are left of most Americans? She credited the choice to the chemistry she has with Walz. Though there may be some truth to that, a more shocking reason appears when one considers the man many thought would make the best running mate for Harris.

Josh Shapiro

Choosing Pennsylvanian Governor Josh Shapiro would have benefited Harris’s bid in multiple ways. First of all, people like him. Not only has he won three state-wide elections in Pennsylvania, but he has polled favorably since then. A recent survey recorded that Shapiro had a 56 percent approval rating with 31 percent disapproving. When placed in hypothetical races between Biden and Trump, Shapiro beat both.

Shapiro was also seen as someone who could legitimately appeal to moderate voters, an important factor in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is a vitally important battleground state. And it is in this that Shapiro seems better than Walz. Based on current projections, even if Walz turns some Midwestern states blue, Harris will likely still need Pennsylvania to win. The election may come down to Shapiro’s state. In contrast, Republicans haven’t won Minnesota since 1972 and will likely be just fine without it.

In fact, it seems Shapiro is more advantageous than Walz in multiple factors. Where Shapiro’s approval splits were 56-31, Walz’s are 54-40 (according to the same poll). In a npr-pbs-Marist poll published on Tuesday, 71 percent of Americans said they’d never heard of Walz, 17 percent viewed him favorably, and 12 percent viewed him negatively. In the same poll, only 53 percent said they hadn’t heard of Shapiro, and his approval split was 25-23. Shapiro likely has greater appeal to moderate—specifically, Independent—voters, which will likely be important in Harris’s bid to beat Trump. Last week, betting markets gave Shapiro over a 60 percent chance of receiving the position. Last Friday, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker seemingly leaked that Shapiro was the pick.

After the Harris’s vice presidential pick was announced, the Trump campaign told cnn it was “breathing a sigh of relief” because Shapiro wasn’t chosen. Vivek Ramaswamy called this pick “a massive gift to Republicans.”

So why did Harris choose Walz?

Hamas Support

Shapiro’s moderation may be what disqualified him in Harris’s eyes, specifically concerning his ties to Israel. Even though each of Harris’s top four vice presidential picks seemed to favor Israel in its fight against terror, only Shapiro faced a campaign to keep him off the ticket because of this. He is the only front-runner who is Jewish. David Klion helped spark the campaign against him, writing:

Shapiro … stands out among the current field of potential running mates as being egregiously bad on Palestine. It’s not just that he, like many Democrats, is an outspoken supporter of Israel—though he certainly is, having championed Israel’s war against Hamas consistently and without any apparent concern for Palestinian civilians. Shapiro has, moreover, done far more than most Democrats to attack pro-Palestine antiwar demonstrators in ways that call into question his basic commitment to First Amendment rights.

The “No Genocide Josh” movement sparked after the Philadelphia Inquirer uncovered an op-ed Shapiro wrote in college that dismissed the Oslo Accords and said “Palestinians will not coexist peacefully” and are “too battle-minded” to allow peace in the region. The more his candidacy grew, the angrier the movement became. Shapiro responded to the attacks by saying his views on the Middle East had changed, but his time as a volunteer in the Israel Defense Forces seemed too much for pro-Hamas voters to forgive.

Since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, many in the left have protested in support of Hamas. Because of this, the Democratic Party is somewhat split between those who support and oppose Israel. In choosing a vice president, Harris had to choose whether to submit to or dismiss the pro-Hamas side of her party. It seems she went with the protesters, even though it meant picking a weaker candidate.

Harris claims this was not why she selected Walz over Shapiro, but with the attempts to backtrack and even cover up this part of Shapiro’s past, including an alleged attempt to remove it from his Wikipedia page, this claim seems false. Many on the right, including J. D. Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson, cite Shapiro’s Jewish ties as the reason he wasn’t chosen even though he was a stronger candidate. Even cnn’s Van Jones suggested this could be the reason. Former cnn pundit Chris Cillizza called this “such a weird choice. … I think this reflects very poorly on [Harris’s] decision making.”

The fact that Harris chose a candidate from Minnesota arguably makes that more likely. Minnesota is home to 25 percent of all Islamic State recruits in the U.S. and the largest Somali community outside of Somalia itself. According to 2021 U.S. Census American Community Survey data, Minnesota is home to 86,610 Somali-Americans, about 37,000 of which were born in Somalia. Somalia’s prime minister deems Hamas “an Islamic liberation organization” not a “terrorist” organization. In reaction to this, and the fact that Walz wants to keep letting refugees in, not only has terrorist recruitment increased in the state but a Minneapolis neighborhood has been informally renamed “Little Mogadishu.” Minnesotan Rep. Ihlan Omar, in Congress since 2019, has condemned Israel’s response to the Hamas attack.

By choosing Walz, Harris showed support for pro-Hamas voters that she wouldn’t have done had she chosen Arizona Senator Mark Kelly or Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (her other two front-runners for vice president).

Regardless of what Harris says, it’s hard to believe Shapiro’s ties to Israel had nothing to do with Harris rejecting him. The fact that a major presidential candidate feels the need to appease those who support a terrorist organization shows a major sickness in the Democratic Party and America in general—a sickness prophesied in the Bible.

Obama’s Involvement

Bible prophecy reveals that Barack Obama is the leader of the Democratic Party. In 2020, Obama chose Harris to be Biden’s vice president. Biden’s mental state clearly shows that he’s not in charge. White House aides report that Biden measures himself against Obama, showing that Obama dominates their relationship. Obama is the reason Biden dropped out of the presidential race. The list of evidence goes on (read “Barack Obama’s Third Term—and Fourth”).

Obama supports Walz, saying, “He has the values and the integrity to make us proud.” A senior aide told cnn that Obama served as a “sounding board for Vice President Harris to talk through how she was thinking about [the choice].” Eric Holder, a close ally of Obama’s, was deeply involved in choosing Harris’s candidates.

But the Bible also reveals that Obama will fail. On July 6, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry said that Bible prophecy reveals Obama is now being silenced. As stated before, Walz is a weaker pick than Shapiro. That choice may backfire on Obama, further fulfilling Bible prophecy.

Regardless of what happens, prepare to see miracles in U.S. politics that will directly reduce Obama’s power. His fall will usher in a temporary resurgence that will push the world closer to the greatest event in Bible prophecy and human history!

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