Minnesota Governor Tim Walz sidestepped questions about his history of false statements about his biography, claiming the American people didn’t care compared to the threat posed by former President Donald Trump.
Walz stumbled over his explanation of his rhetoric during the vice presidential debate, describing himself as a “knucklehead” to excuse his habit of exaggerating or misrepresenting details about his life.
Walz dismissed a question with host Shannon Bream about his habit on Fox News Sunday, but argued that voters didn’t care.
“I think they heard me, they heard me last night talking about gun violence and misspeaking and I have to be honest with you, Shannon, I don’t think people care if I denounce IUI or IVF when I talk about this,” he said . .
Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz
Walz repeatedly turned the question back to the threat former President Donald Trump made to the country over abortion, honoring the military and whether he lost the 2020 presidential election.
“I think people know who I am, my voters here in Minnesota have elected me eight times, they know where I stand and I’m proud to be on the ticket and we will deliver just like we do in Minnesota have done,” he said. said.
Walz has been caught exaggerating details about his political story, including making repeated misstatements about his military rank in the National Guard, falsely claiming he carried a “weapon of war” in a war zone and downplaying details of the evolving story about his arrest under the influence in 1995.
Minnesota Governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz (C) greets supporters at a campaign rally,
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks about the vice presidential debate on Fox News Sunday
Walz also repeatedly lied about the fact that he and his wife used in vitro fertilization to conceive his children, when in fact they used the process of intrauterine insemination.
The Minnesota governor was also challenged during the vice presidential debate for repeatedly claiming he was in Hong Kong during the pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protests, while only reaching China after the protests were over.
When asked to explain the discrepancy, Walz dodged the question to focus on his biography and his trip to China, but when pressed by the moderators, he replied, “All I said about this was: I got there that summer and made a mistake about it. so I’ll just do it, that’s what I said.’