Kamala Harris has picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz campaigned as the hard-left choice for VP, saying last week on the “White Dudes for Harris” call: “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

Bernie Sanders had endorsed Walz for the VP slot, saying: “I hope very much that the vice president elects a running mate who will speak up and take on powerful corporate interests and I think Tim Walz is somebody who could do that.”

He got his wish. Walz is a socialist like Bernie but without the charm. He was a lockdown artist governor who adopted a Cuomo-style must-admit nursing home policy, with more than 75 percent of first wave COVID deaths among the state’s nursing home population. He locked kids out of school for more than half of the 2020-21 school year – and then lied about it:

Walz’s state also has the dubious honor of hosting one of the biggest COVID relief fraud schemes.

On overall spending, Walz has been a Mini-Me following the Biden-Harris model. In 2022, he passed a two-year budget that featured a 38 percent increase in spending that raised taxes by $10 billion.

“It was the single most reckless fiscal step taken in the modern history of Minnesota,” Jim Schultz, the President of the Minnesota Private Business Council, told us.