Kamala Humiliates Tim Walz One Last Time By Revealing Why She Chose Him For VP

Former Vice President Kamala Harris detailed in her new book why she chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her 2024 running mate, drawing on his self-deprecating nature and lack of desire to out shine her.

Harris released her book, “107 Days” on Tuesday. It’s her account of running the shortest presidential campaign in modern history. The former vice president detailed the running mate interview process, in which she narrowed it down to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Walz and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly. Shapiro was “polished” but Harris noted her reservations towards his political ambitions. Walz, in Harris’ description, is nearly the complete opposite. (RELATED: Kamala Awkwardly Explains Passing On Pete Buttigieg In 2024 Race)

“It was quickly clear to me that Tim had walked into that room feeling he wouldn’t get the job,” Harris said of her interview with Walz. “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,” the former vice president stated.

Democratic presidential candidate US Vice President Kamala Harris listen to her running mate, Governor Tim Walz, speak during a visit with members of the marching band at Liberty County High School in Hinesville, Georgia, August 28, 2024, as they travel across Georgia for a 2-day campaign bus tour.  (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Harris praised Walz’s roots and down-to-earth demeanor. She wrote about how she liked his track record as a politician.

“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. 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,” Harris stated.

“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,” she continued.

Before meeting with Walz, Harris wrote that she met with Shapiro first. The two, she later said, made good impressions but in different ways.

“In our meeting [Shapiro] was, as always, poised, polished, and personable,” Harris noted about her interview with Shapiro. “I told him how much I admired his work. He was great on the stump, a wonderful campaigner, very compelling and very bright.”

Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz walk onstage for a campaign rally at the Fiserv Forum on August 20, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Later this week Harris will accept her party’s presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

She continued with more details from their interview in which they discussed how to win Pennsylvania and Shapiro’s past statements on his support for Israel. The former vice president then asked him if he understood the role of the vice president, adding that doing so would make him successful.

“He peppered me with questions, trying to nail down, in detail, what role I saw for my VP. At one point, he mused that he would want to be in the room for every decision. I told him bluntly that was an unrealistic expectation. A vice president is not a copresident,” Harris said of their meeting.

“I had a nagging concern that he would be unable to settle for a role as number two and that it would wear on our partnership. I had to be able to completely trust the person in that role,” she continued.

“‘Every day as president,” she said, “I’ll have ninety-nine problems, and my VP can’t be one,” she concludes.

With Kelly, Harris’ main concern seemed to be that he wouldn’t be able to handle Trump’s attacks and the political arena because of his short time in politics.

“Could a captain, used to deference and respect, adapt to an opponent’s national campaign specifically designed to disrespect him, to cut a hero down to something small?” she wrote.

The former vice president later revealed that most of her inner circle was leaning towards Walz as her running mate. Harris asked her 17-year-old godson, who she describes as a “creature of the zeitgeist,” for a young person’s opinion. He also liked Walz.

Harris noted that her husband, former second gentleman Doug Emhoff, was leaning towards Shapiro because he had known him longer.

“It was always going to have to be my decision. I told my staff and family that I didn’t want any more input, and I went to do something practical: I made a tasty rub and seasoned a pork roast,” Harris wrote.

“By the time I went to bed, I’d decided on Walz.”