Also, while Walz is magnitudes better than Shapiro ideologically, he's still mostly a moderate-liberal, in tune with the Democrat establishment. He would not, unlike Shapiro, completely undermine any attempts at throwing progressive bones at the Left. That's important, given the Star Chamber SCOTUS' virtual pocket veto.
If he can encourage Copmala to find some of that energy and go completely off on Trumpster and the Republicans and the entirity of the Right agenda, we may be cooking.