Republicans have been attacking Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s military service, somet
Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz arrives to speak Aug. 10, 2024, at a campaign rally in Las Vegas. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in a 2018 video the Kamala Harris campaign circulated on social media in August, said he wanted to get"weapons of war that I carried in war" off the streets.
Former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, who, like Walz, is a military veteran, took the governor to task for his comment at an Aug. 7 campaign stop in Shelby Township, Michigan. As he awaited his retirement paperwork’s processing, Walz filed paperwork to run for Congress in February 2005, a month before his battalion received a March notification for a potential deployment to Iraq within two years. Walz’s battalion was officially ordered to deploy to Iraq in July 2005, two months after Walz retired.Walz first enlisted in the Nebraska National Guard in 1981 days after he turned 17.
"In making the case for why weapons of war should never be on our streets or in our classrooms, the Governor misspoke," Hitt said."He did handle weapons of war and believes strongly that only military members trained to carry those deadly weapons should have access to them, unlike Donald Trump and JD Vance who prioritize the gun lobby over our children."
Although Walz used weapons and trained colleagues to use them during his long military career, his 2018 statement implied that he carried weapons on a battlefield, which he did not. Walz misspoke, his campaign said.Says Tim Walz said he carried weapons in war, but “he has not spent a day in a combat zone.”
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