Harris' VP pick faces backlash over resurfaced calls to transfer 'most dangerous terrorists' to US facilities

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, picked this week by Vice President Kamala Harris to serve as her running mate, voted in 2009 against a measure that would have barred the federal government from transferring inmates at the Guantánamo Bay prison facility – and argued that facilities in the U.S. could handle the alleged terrorists being transferred.

Walz voted against a measure to block the transfer of detainees from the facility, sometimes referred to as "Gitmo," near Cuba to the United States, The MinnPost reported at the time.