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Kamala Harris

'SELF-DEPRECATING' WALZ: Harris Chose Walz Over Shapiro Because He Admitted More Flaws

posted by Hannity Staff - 9.25.25

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris details in her new book why she selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her 2024 running mate, praising his authenticity, humility, lack of presidential ambition, and self-depracating manner.

Harris released 107 Days on Tuesday, her account of running what became the shortest presidential campaign in modern history. She described narrowing her choice of running mate to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Walz, and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly. Shapiro, she wrote, was “polished” but raised concerns about his political ambitions. Walz, she said, was nearly the opposite.

“It was quickly clear to me that Tim had walked into that room feeling he wouldn’t get the job,” Harris recalled. “The first thing he said as he sat down—I don’t even know if the door had closed behind him—was: ‘Whether or not you pick me, I’m going to do everything I can to get you elected.’”

“He was immediately self-critical. ‘I’m not a good debater.’ ‘I’ve never used a teleprompter,’” Harris continued.

“He was less polished than Josh. But he had an appealing authenticity and was genuinely self-deprecating. A lot of people in politics act self-deprecating, but it’s just that, an act. If anything, Tim over-indexed his own liabilities.”

Harris praised Walz’s Midwestern roots and down-to-earth approach, describing him as someone focused on service rather than ambition.

“He said he had no ambition to be president, that his aim as vice president would be doing meaningful work to improve people’s lives,” she wrote. “It’s no bad thing for a vice president to want to be president, unless that ambition plays a corrosive role in the relationship and causes disloyalty.”

“That wouldn’t be an issue with Tim. He had no fixed ideas about what the role of vice president should be, saying he would do whatever I found was most useful for him to do.”

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