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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.”
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