Gullible media repeats GOP spin that Trump is ‘thrilled’ by Walz pick

Donald Trump and his campaign were expecting Vice President Kamala Harris to pick Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate, and they had an ugly game plan for it. They were going to exploit Shapiro being Jewish and try to inflame divisions among Democrats on the war in Gaza. Harris blew that plan up when she picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, leaving Trump to fall back on the generic claim that Walz is a “dangerously liberal extremist” who will “unleash HELL ON EARTH.” 

Trump isn’t giving up on stoking division—"This is the worst team ever assembled for a Jewish person, or for Israel, either one,” he said Wednesday on “Fox & Friends”—but he’s trying a new messaging ploy: Trump and Republicans are "thrilled" about Harris picking the “extremist liberal” Walz. 

And of course, traditional media outlets are eating it up.