For all the fury and vitriol directed at Donald Trump by Kamala Harris and her allies, the vice president’s campaign looks a lot like Trump’s, with the exception that she is almost 20 years younger and knows when to stick to the Teleprompter.

Is a younger, more disciplined leftist doppelganger campaign enough to beat Trump?

Playing to the hardcore base, stiff-arming the establishment media, a weird last-minute vice presidential pick that smells like fear and arrogance — it makes you wonder whether the same people are running both campaigns. Funny how both Trump and Harris are bashing each other as liars bent on subverting democracy. It might be the only thing Trump and Harris agree on.

Harris’s vice presidential selection process shows disturbing similarities to Trump’s. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) was a last-minute dark-horse who clearly was not fully vetted. The “stolen valor” accusations are a problem for him. And Team Harris failed to see the disconnect between what the progressive left saw as legitimate protest and what many Americans saw as rioting and destruction over George Floyd. Burned out and boarded up buildings in Minneapolis are not a good image.

But what is most like the Trump pick of JD Vance is the bad political calculus. For Team Trump to promote a freshman Ohio senator as if to appeal to the “Midwest” writ large is just as inane as it is for Team Harris to promote Walz for the same purpose. Governors and senators rarely have any appeal beyond their states' borders, particularly ones with such short tenures. Thinking that all those rubes in flyover country are the same is precisely what a bunch of East Coast elites would think.

Worse, both picks reek of arrogance. Trump, likely thinking he was going to win in November, taps Vance as an unthreatening super-loyalist who can become........

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