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Hot Air readers knew about this nine days ago. Minnesotans knew about it two years ago, at least, and voters in Minnesota’s first congressional district knew about it eighteen years ago.

The question now is: why didn’t Kamala Harris and her team know about it? CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski just made that awkward question relevant by reporting not just on Tim Walz’ 1995 DUI arrest in Nebraska, but the fact that Walz has consistently lied about it:

According to court and police records connected to the incident, Walz admitted in court that he had been drinking when he was pulled over for driving 96 mph in a 55 mph zone in Nebraska. Walz was then transported by a state trooper to a local hospital for a blood test, showing he had a blood alcohol level of .128, well above the state’s legal limit of 0.1 at the time.

But in 2006, his campaign repeatedly told the press that he had not been…

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