Tim Walz sat down for an interview with CNN alongside Kamala Harris and was asked about his military service.
Minnesota Governor and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was asked in his joint interview with CNN on Thursday about his military service and a previous comment he made about carrying weapons “in war”, responding in part, “.my wife the English teacher told me my grammar is not always correct.”
CNN’s Dana Bash asked Walz, who spoke alongside Vice President and presidential nominee Kamala Harris, if he misspoke while saying that he carried a weapon “in war.” Walz responded, “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. But again, if it’s not this, it’s an attack on my children for showing love for me, or it’s an attack on my dog.”
Walz added, “The one thing I’ll never do is I’ll never demean another member’s service in any way. I never have and I never will.” Walz was never in combat, and the Harris campaign previously commented that he “misspoke” when saying “in war.”
Newsweek has reached out to the Harris, Walz campaign via email Thursday night for comment.
After Walz’s comment to Bash, an uproar on social media ensued. Conservative radio host Clay Travis posted the moment on X, formerly Twitter, adding, “Tim Walz asked about lying and claiming he carried weapons in war said, ‘My grammar’s not always correct.
