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Harris’s True Colours

City Journal
August 17, 2024
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In City Journal, Lexi Boccuzzi discusses Vice President and Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris’s pick of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. Given Walz’s egregiously left-wing track record – imposing among the most tyrannical Covid-19 lockdown regimes, allowing Minneapolis to burn during the George Floyd riots, placing tampons in boys’ school washrooms, authorizing biological men to compete in women’s sports, and pushing DEI policies wherever he can – Boccuzzi is convinced Harris is even harder-left than she’s letting on.

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