Minnesota Governor and Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz is constantly freaking out that he is going to let Vice President Kamala Harris down and screw up in his debate against Ohio Senator JD Vance this week, according to a dozen campaign staffers who spoke to CNN .
The network reported that Walz—a longtime politician with twelve years spent in the U.S. House of Representatives and five years in the governor’s office—warned his running mate that he is a “bad debater” last month.
“He’s a strong person,” Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who’s known Walz for 18 years, told CNN. “He’s just not a lawyer-debater type. It’s not like he was dreaming of debates when he was in first grade.”
When he takes part in the vice presidential debate on CBS Tuesday, he’ll square off against Vance, a skilled debater who, like his running mate Donald Trump , hasn’t shied away from bending the truth—such as his false assertions about migrants in Ohio eating people’s pets—or launching aggressive broadsides at political foes.