'Doomed': Experts say this crucial campaign decision led to VP Harris' 'disastrous' defeat

Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed statesmanlike bid has governmental strategists 2nd guessing galore of her run choices, including her enactment of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz arsenic her moving mate.

"The prime of Walz was lone 1 of galore disastrous mistakes but symptomatic of 1 larger occupation – the Democratic Party enactment is excessively frightened to accidental nary to the hard near progressive helping of the party," Julian Epstein, longtime Democratic operative and erstwhile main counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News Digital.

"This hard near opposes commonsense solutions that Gov Shapiro supports – charter schools for example. Or defeating terrorists alternatively than aping their talking points and positions, which let them to enactment successful powerfulness and rearm for the adjacent genocidal attack," Epstein continued. "It’s the hard near progressive helping that looks archetypal to payment and redistribution alternatively than economical growth, and to taste extremism connected migration and sex profoundly retired of interaction with the American electorate. Walz was a truly atrocious prime for sure, but their prime was portion of a deeper problem."

Rob Bluey, president and enforcement exertion of The Daily Signal, told Fox News Digital that Walz being added to the summons was a important mistake successful judgment.

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VP Harris and Gov. Tim Walz astatine the Democratic convention. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

"Historically, vice presidents person small interaction connected a statesmanlike candidate’s fate," Bluey said. "But successful the lawsuit of Tim Walz, it proved to beryllium a disastrous determination that doomed Kamala Harris from the infinitesimal she made it. Not lone was Walz ill-prepared for the nationalist spotlight and media scrutiny, but Harris passed implicit respective amended options. Given however small Americans knew astir Harris oregon her argumentation positions, they were close to question her judgement connected this large decision."

Harris faced scrutiny adjacent from immoderate successful her ain enactment implicit her determination to sanction Walz, who galore presumption arsenic further to the near than she is, alternatively than a much mean choice. Prominent Democrat Josh Shapiro, politician of the important plaything authorities of Pennsylvania that Trump carried connected Tuesday night, was viewed by immoderate arsenic a much applicable choice.

"One of the things that are apical of caput is the prime of Tim Walz arsenic vice statesmanlike candidate," Harris-Walz surrogate Lindy Li told Fox News elder White House analogous Jacqui Heinrich astatine Howard University. "A batch of radical are saying contiguous that it should person been Josh Shapiro. Frankly, radical person been saying that for months."

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Supporters respond to aboriginal predetermination results astatine Vice President Kamala Harris' predetermination nighttime rally astatine Howard University, successful Washington, D.C., Nov. 5, 2024. (Reuters/Daniel Cole)

"I cognize a batch of radical are astir apt wondering contiguous what would person happened had Shapiro been connected the ticket," Li continued. "And not lone successful presumption of Pennsylvania. He's famously a moderate. So that would person signaled to the American radical that she is not the San Francisco wide that Trump said she was."

Walz was heavy criticized connected the run way implicit questions astir his honesty regarding his subject service, ties to China, effect to the George Floyd riots successful 2020, and argumentation docket arsenic politician that respective Minnesotans who spoke to Fox News Digital described arsenic radical.

Firehouse Strategies founding spouse Alex Conant told Fox News Digital that portion Walz did not assistance the ticket, the problems were overmuch deeper.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a run rally astatine Tucson High Magnet School connected Nov. 2, 2024 successful Tucson, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

"Democrats indispensable person a batch of regrets," Conant said. "Walz didn't assistance the ticket, but he's not wherefore she lost. VP candidates conscionable don't substance that much."

"Bigger issues were Trump's well-run campaign, Biden's unpopular record, and Harris' lackluster show arsenic a campaigner – and I'm not definite however she could person changed immoderate of those things."