Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, fired from the network for amplifying anti-Israel content in the wake of the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks, is demanding Kamala Harris tap Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) as her running mate in the 2024 presidential election. Hasan, crediting Walz with starting the “weird” line of attack against former President Donald J. Trump and his vice presidential nominee, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), says he now describes himself as “Walz-pilled.”
“I’ll be honest: last month, I would have struggled to pick Walz out of a lineup,” the former MSNBC host—who now works for the Qatari-funded Al Jazeera network—writes. Walz, 60, is a relatively non-descript white Midwest governor who some in the Democratic Party see as a potential salve for voters regarding Harris’s far-left politics.
While Walz may check several demographic boxes sought by the Harris campaign—namely that he’s white—the Minnesota governor isn’t a Midwest moderate by Hasan‘s own admission. “He has an army of new fans across the liberal-left: from former Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign co-chair Nina Turner, to one-time Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke, to gun-control activist David Hogg,” he writes.
“Walz also comes with less political baggage than his two main rivals and is, therefore, much less likely to divide the party,” argues Hasan, whose own baggage includes leaked sermons denigrating non-Muslims as “cattle” who “live their lives as animals.”
“Democrats can have Tim Walz on the ticket, who called the anti-war, pro-Palestinian ‘uncommitted’ movement ‘civically engaged’ and praised them for ‘asking for a change in course’ and ‘for more pressure to be put on’ the White House, or they can have Josh Shapiro, who called for a crackdown on anti-war, pro-Palestinian college protesters and even compared them to the KKK.”
Shaprio, the Democrat Governor of Pennsylvania, is Jewish.
