SAVANNAH, Ga. — In their first televised interview as Democratic presidential running mates , Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz faced more questions about Walz’s military service.
CNN anchor Dana Bash pressed Walz about a statement he made in a 2018 video following the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Walz refers to “weapons of war that I carried in war,” while telling a crowd at a campaign stop in Minnesota why he stopped taking NRA donations.
“You said that you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a war zone. A campaign official said that you misspoke. Did you?” Bash said.
In response, Walz reiterated how he served in the National Guard with pride for 24 years, adding his record speaks for itself. Bash then asked again if he did indeed misspeak.
“I said, we were talking about in this case, it was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war. And my wife , the English teacher, told me my grammar’s 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 said. “I’m not going to do that, and 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.”