Debate revealed Tim Walz to be a fraud everyman and a lightweight

If Donald Trump wins this election, the postmortems on Kamala Harris’ campaign should put her choice of Minnesota Gov.Tim Walz as her running mate at the top of her list of mistakes. Much of America got to know Walz for the first time during Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate.

Unlike his appearance at the Democratic National Convention, the Walz we saw on the debate stage didn’t have his words written for him in a teleprompter.And the unfiltered version underscored a very obvious fact about the governor: He is patently fake. For starters, how about this “Coach Walz” nonsense, which he broached yet again on Tuesday.Let’s be real, being an assistant volunteer coach isn’t exactly something to brag about.Walz always leaves out the “assistant volunteer” part of the title, to make himself out to be the second coming of Vince Lombardi. Then there was Walz’s goofy ’80s-sitcom-dad shtick that’s meant to be endearing and relatable but is as cringe as one of Kamala’s fraudulent accents.Just check out his answer to the question about why he’s claimed to be in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests when he was actually in Nebraska. “I will be the first to tell you I have poured my heart into my community.

I’ve tried to do the best I can, but I’ve not been perfect,” he said.“And I’m a knucklehead at times, but it’s always been about that.”How comforting to know a self-described knucklehead could be one heartbeat away from controlling the nuclear codes. This filibuster of an answer went on for a full two minutes without addressing why he had lied about being in China at that critical moment, prompting co-moderator Margaret Brennan to press him for an actual response. “Governor, just to follow up on that, the question was, can you explain the discrepancy?” she asked. “No,” he said.

“All I said on this was ..

.I got there that summer and misspoke on this, so I will just, that’s what I’ve said.” Ah, he...