My latest New York Post column:

By picking Tim Walz as her running mate, Kamala Harris is banking on two things. First, Walz looks like a salt-of-the-earth Midwestern dad rather than a radical progressive. Second, the national political press can be counted on to hide from voters the fact that Walz actually is a radical progressive — and he’s got the record to prove it.

Judged only by first impressions, the 60-year-old Nebraska-born Walz doesn’t fit the image of a hair-on-fire leftist. Gruff and burly, he looks at home in a flannel jacket and talks like a guy you’d meet at Home Depot. He’s not one of the Democratic party’s endless parade of lawyers; he’s a former football coach, manufacturing worker and teacher who spent 24 years as an enlisted man in the Army National Guard.

When he represented a congressional district that went for George W. Bush twice and Donald Trump twice, the gun-owning Walz compiled an A rating from the NRA — but also a perfect rating from all manner of left-wing groups on other issues. And he’s since flipped on guns. Since he was elected governor in 2018, Walz has banked hard to the left. There’s a lot for him to answer for.