Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “misspoke” in a 2018 video in which he can be heard talking about himself, a Harris-Walz campaign spokesman said Friday How to handle weapons “in war”.
“Governor Walz would never insult or undermine any American’s service to this country, and in fact, he thanked Senator Vance for risking his life for our country,” a Harris campaign spokesperson said in a statement to NBC News. Danger.
“The governor got it wrong when he explained why weapons of war should never be on our streets or in our classrooms. He did handle weapons of war and firmly believed that only service members trained to carry these deadly weapons should use them, unlike Donald Trump. Trump, unlike J.D. Vance, prioritizes the gun lobby over our children,” the spokesperson added.
I served as a House Republican with Tim Walz. He would make an excellent Vice President
Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaks at a campaign event on August 7. (Andrew Harnick)
Clips from the 2018 film show Walz discussing gun control and mentioning his own military background.
“We can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried into the war are the only places where those weapons are kept,” Walz said in a video released by the Harris campaign on Tuesday.
Republicans, led by vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance, criticized Walz’s military service. Walz served in the National Guard for 24 years but had never been deployed to a combat zone. In 2003, he led troops deployed to Vicenza, Italy, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (the name of the war in Afghanistan).
He retired in 2005, a few months before the unit deployed to Iraq.
Vance, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq, accused Walz of “stealing courage.”
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“I want to know Tim Walz, when did you go to war?” Vance said at an event in Michigan. “What is this weapon you bring to war? Tim Waltz What bothers me is this stolen courage garbage. Don’t pretend to be something you’re not.”
“If I were him, I would lie like him about my military service and I would be ashamed,” he added.
