Following a decisive defeat by now-President-elect Donald Trump, the Kamala Harris team is already pinpointing issues within their campaign, with Harris’s VP pick, Tim Walz, being a primary concern.

Harris notably chose not to select Josh Shapiro, the governor of the pivotal swing state of Pennsylvania, as her running mate, reportedly due to concerns about upsetting the far-left given Shapiro’s Jewish background.

“The blame game has begun inside Harris world,” Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich posted to X, early Wednesday morning. 

Harris-Walz surrogate Lindy Li, a member of the DNC National Finance Committee, criticized Gov. Tim Walz (MN) as a poor choice, suggesting that Josh Shapiro could have played a pivotal role in securing the “blue wall” for Democrats.

“People are wondering tonight what would have happened had Shapiro been on the ticket,” Li said. “And not only in terms of Pennsylvania. He’s famously a moderate. So that would have signaled to the American people that she is not the San Francisco liberal that Trump said she was.”

Li further remarked that Harris opted for someone to her left, “who oversaw the protests” in Minnesota. The 2020 Black Lives Matter riots following George Floyd’s death were highly destructive for cities across the country.

Additionally, Walz has faced a series of scandals, including alleged connections to China, a tendency to spread falsehoods, and embellishments regarding his military service, the Daily Wire reported.

Li also emphasized that Harris appeared to have reversed many of the positions she established during the 2020 election and throughout her political career, all while failing to distance herself from President Joe Biden.

“She knows that it was a mistake to say on ‘The View’ that she couldn’t think of a single thing that she would do differently from the Biden administration,” Li told Heinrich. “That was [an] opener for her to show Americans that she’s going to get tough on the border, that she’s going to take drastic measures to bring down inflation. That was her chance.”

Harris, the Democrats, and their media allies reverted to the 2016 and 2020 strategy of labeling Trump a fascist and comparing him and his supporters to Nazis—a tactic Li identified as a misstep.

The blame game has begun inside Harris world.

Harris-Walz surrogate @lindyli, a member of the DNC National Finance Committee and PA commissioner tells me:

– Tim Walz was a bad choice of running mate, Shapiro would have carried the blue wall states.
Li: "People are wondering…

— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) November 6, 2024