Fox News host delivers searing takedown of colleague's 'socialist' attack against Tim Walz

Fox News' Jessica Tarlov on Tuesday set the record straight on Tim Walz's history as Minnesota's governor and as a congressman representing the state.

During the latest episode of "The Five," Tarlov took direct aim at co-host Jesse Watters, who The Washington Post's Jeremy Barr reported last month, said: "Kamala is even more radical and incompetent than old Joe Biden," calling Vice President Harris a "'California socialist," and claiming she's "even more unpopular than the most unpopular president in American history."

Watters on Tuesday called Walz a socialist, to which Tarlov shot back: "Governor Walz brings a lot of experience that she wanted on the ticket. Not only in his time in Congress, where he was, I think, the seventh most conservative Democrat. Someone who is a gun owner. Someone who does have those midwestern values. But his executive experience in Minnesota. Jesse just radiated some of them — the attacks on him as a socialist."

She emphasized, "I don't know what kind of socialist runs number six best state in America for big business. Target is there for a reason, 3M, United Healthcare, General Mills are there for a reason. And the kinds of things that he has gotten passed are exactly the kinds of things that Kamala Harris wants to talk about — things like paid sick leave, $2.3 billion into public schools, a huge infrastructure bill."

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Tarlov went on to compare Walz's leadership to Republican leaders' like Arkansas' Sarah Huckabee Sanders' way of governing.

"What you're going to see is the right trying to define him as Jesse did," the Democratic Fox News host continued.

"But you're going to see that side-by-side picture of Tim Walz after he signed free school breakfast and school lunch, and someone like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who is a star in the Republican Party — got a prime speaking spot at the RNC — signing a bill to allow kids under 16 to be able to work. That is the contrast here. A guy who wants to put food in people's bellies, and someone who wants kids to be able to work. He is the real deal. He is what JD Vance wishes that he were."

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