Join CRA TODAY!
There is no “US” Without You!
Thank you for visiting us here at the online headquarters for THE CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY.
If you find value in the work we are doing to help fight for conservative values here in the Golden State, PLEASE BECOME A MEMBER TODAY!
(THE DAILY BEAST) – Tim Walz blamed his “grammar” for falsely claiming to carry “weapons of war in war” in his first interview as vice presidential candidate Thursday —and side-stepped questions about lies over his DUI and why he said his children were conceived by IVF.
The Democratic candidate has come under scrutiny for a series of statements from his past which appeared to exaggerate his service record in the National Guard and for his 2006 campaign for Congress, when his spokespeople tried to deny he had been drunk when convicted of a DUI.
In his joint CNN interview with Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, he gave a lengthy answer when asked by the network’s Dana Bash about a claim in 2018 that he carried guns “in war” despite never having been in combat—but never apologized for the claim, which Republicans including his rival JD Vance have called “stolen valor.”
“A campaign official said that you misspoke. Did you?” the CNN anchor asked.
“First of all, I‘m incredibly proud to have done 24 years of wearing the uniform of this country,” replied Walz, who deployed to Italy in 2003 during the Afghanistan War and didn’t see combat.
“[I’m] equally proud of my service in a public school classroom. Whether it‘s Congress or the governor, my record speaks for itself, but I think people are coming to get to know me. I speak like they do; I speak candidly,” he continued. “I wear my emotions on my sleeves, and I speak especially passionately about our children being shot in schools and around guns. So I think people know me, they know who I am, they know where my heart is. And again, my record has been out there for over 40 years to speak for itself.”
When Bash repeated her question after the lengthy non-answer, he came up with the “grammar” explanation.
“Yeah, I said we were talking about—in this case—this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war. And my wife, the English teacher, told me my grammar is not always correct,” he said.
