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From Fox News: Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, said he traveled to China much less than he had initially highlighted in congressional hearings and media interviews.
“I have been to China dozens of times,” Walz said during a 2016 congressional hearing. “I’ve been there about 30 times,” Walz told an agriculture-focused publication the same year.
However, a Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson recently acknowledged to Minnesota Public Radio that the number was “closer to 15 times.”
The revision comes amid growing scrutiny from GOP critics over Walz’s potential ties to the People’s Republic of China and its ruling Communist Party. Earlier this month, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., sent a letter renewing pressure on the FBI to produce documents related to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entities or officials that Walz has purportedly engaged with in the past.
Suddenly Walz doesn’t want to focus on his Chinese connections. MRP wrote:
But, now as Minnesota’s governor and the Democratic Party’s nominee for vice president, Walz has chosen to emphasize his folksy image as a down-home Midwestern dad and state-championship football coach rather than his history as a peripatetic world traveler. His biography on the Harris-Walz campaign’s official website makes no mention of his extensive international experience.
Tim Murtaugh, who works on the Trump 2024 Campaign, mocked, “On the eve of his debate with JD Vance, Tim Walz is now hilariously trying to walk back his well-documented and extensive love of Communist China, but only a little bit. Super convincing.”
On the eve of his debate with JD Vance, Tim Walz is now hilariously trying to walk back his well-documented and extensive love of Communist China, but only a little bit.
Super convincing. https://t.co/UdQL2BIGEx pic.twitter.com/gaVgfp0ogF
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) September 30, 2024
This is the latest instance of Walz inflating his resume.
The “30 trips” to China stat was repeated as fact in August by the NYT, NPR, Reuters. and others. pic.twitter.com/0r9v0bs8Nh
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) September 30, 2024
Tim Walz said he went to China ‘dozens’ of times, now his campaign says its ‘closer to 15’ https://t.co/HbweLgu9ls
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 1, 2024
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