Walz falsely claimed to have carried an assault rifle “in war” in a 2018 video shared by the Harris-Walz campaign this week.
The presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz says that Walz “misspoke” when incorrectly claiming that he carried a gun “in war” while serving in the military.
A 2018 video that the Harris-Walz campaign shared on social media earlier this week shows the governor, who served 24 years in the Army National Guard, calling for tighter laws on assault weapons while arguing that “those weapons of war, that I carried in war”, should “only [be] carried in war.”
Republican Senator JD Vance, a Marine Corps veteran and the running mate of former President Donald Trump, has accused Walz of “stolen valor” over the weapons remarks and for having allegedly “abandoned” his battalion by retiring and launching his political career before the unit deployed to Iraq.
“Governor Walz would never insult or undermine any American’s service to this country—in fact, he thanks Senator Vance for putting his life on the line for our country. It’s the American way”, Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa told The on Friday.
“In making the case for why weapons of war should never be on our streets or in our classrooms, the governor misspoke”, Moussa added.
