Newly minted Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz (MN) has a major problem on his hands due to his penchant for embellishing his record of service at the Army National Guard. The networks who so warmly welcomed him into the race are now doing their level best to spin this problem away.
Watch as ABC’s Selina Wang tries to wave the whole thing away by noting that Vance didn’t engage in any hostilities while in Iraq, echoing the Harris campaign and making up a Walz counterattack that never happened:
SELINA WANG: New rivals Vance and Walz, both veterans. Vance, who deployed to Iraq in the Marines and did not see any active fighting, going after Walz’s military background, accusing him of leaving his unit before it deployed to Iraq, and lying about his service. Seizing on this moment:
TIM WALZ: And we can make sure those weapons of war…
