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From Fox News: The Harris campaign did not properly prepare for potential attacks on the vice president’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, according to political strategists from both sides of the aisle.
“The Walz military record story was clearly a failure of ‘reverse’ opposition research by the Harris campaign,” Democrat strategist Julian Epstein told Fox News Digital.
The comments come as Walz has continued to face scrutiny over his military record, with critics accusing the vice presidential candidate of “stolen valor” for seemingly misleading statements he has made about his service.
Critics have claimed that language Walz has used when describing his time in the service had misleadingly suggested that he served in a war zone, including one statement in which he said he would like to ban the kind of weapons he had “carried in war,” despite having never been deployed to a combat zone during his 24 years of service.
The Harris campaign tried to clean it up. Campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt said, “In making the case for why weapons of war should never be on our streets or in our classrooms, the Governor misspoke. He did handle weapons of war and believes strongly that only military members trained to carry those deadly weapons should have access to them, unlike Donald Trump and JD Vance who prioritize the gun lobby over our children.”
Walz has been slammed over multiple deceptive statements regarding his military career.
Republican strategist David Polyansky also agreed the Harris campaign messed up when vetting Walz to be Harris’s running mate.
“I assume part of this is just the abbreviated nature of it,” Polyansky said, adding, “But the fact of the matter is, it’s one of two things: either in their vetting in their interviews with him failed to catch some of those potential vulnerabilities, or they knew it and just failed to adequately prepare for the messaging offensive that was about to come.”
“Either way … it put them in a tough position on his rollout, put them on the defensive on a vice presidential pick that should have given them an immediate boost,” Polyansky said.
This week, @Tim_Walz and I kicked off our campaign together—it has been electric.
Thank you, Pennsylvania! pic.twitter.com/G5Fq58uAcX
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 11, 2024
Using the word “tweaks” to minimize it, but this is absolute proof that Harris didn’t know this about Walz and that it’s bothering the campaign. https://t.co/2PJXvZEEU4
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) August 8, 2024
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