Minnesota Governor and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was excoriated by conservatives on social media for apparently blowing off a question about Hersh Goldberg-Polin and the other hostages found dead by the Israeli military over the weekend at the Minnesota state fair on Sunday.
Goldberg-Polin was a 23-year-old American citizen taken hostage by Hamas as the Nova music festival in southern Israel last October.
While speaking with reporters at the fair, a female reporter asked Walz, “What’s your reaction to the six hostages being found dead in Gaza?” At first, Walz appeared to be listening to the journalist, but midway through it he shot a glance at an aide and shouted “Alright, thanks everybody!” while walking away with what appeared to be a milkshake or ice cream cone in hand.
The only video of his appearance at the state fair actually shared by Walz himself on X shows the governor describing the fair’s pork chops as the “breakfast of champions.”
On social media, conservatives reacted to Walz’s dodge with outrage.