Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy criticized Vice President Harris for choosing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.
"This gives us the reset that we needed," Ramaswamy told Fox News' "Jesse Watters Primetime." "This is a gift from on high from the Democratic Party."
Harris made the announcement at a rally in Pennsylvania, where Walz joined her. The campaign claimed the event drew over 14,000 people at Temple University's Liacouras Center.
Ramaswamy argued that the vice presidential role shows more about Harris' decision-making than about policy influence. "The reality is the vice president is far less relevant," he said. "He's not going to be the one setting policy."
He added, "The reason I actually find this decision fascinating is that it gives us a lens into the way that Kamala Harris makes decisions."
"I don't think Kamala Harris is particularly ideological," Ramaswamy continued. "I don't think she has far-left ideology. I don't think she has any ideology."
Ramaswamy believed Harris' choice could benefit the Trump campaign. "We are on path once again to a victory because Pennsylvania could again be in play for Republicans," he noted.
He also criticized Walz for being inconsistent. "The reality is that he can't be a unifier but also somebody who's alienating [over] 70 million Americans as just ‘plain weird,’ as he calls it."
Walz has recently been controversial for calling Republicans, including Trump and JD Vance, "weird." "Don't get sugarcoating this, these are weird ideas," he said on MSNBC last month.
A Marist College poll for NPR and "PBS NewsHour" found that 7 in 10 Americans didn’t know enough about Walz to form an opinion.
The Harris campaign reported a boost in fundraising after the announcement, claiming over $20 million from grassroots supporters. They called it "one of the campaign's best fundraising days this cycle."