Democrat vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has made a habit of misrepresenting stories from his own life that some have described as lying and apparently Democrat presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, is not a fan.
The Minnesota governor sat for an interview with “Good Morning America” host and NFL Hall of Famer Michael Strahan and was grilled about his previous lies and how the vice president responded.
“You call yourself a knucklehead. You call yourself a knucklehead because you’ve made some statements that just aren’t true. In a comment about ‘weapons of war that I carried in war,’ which you didn’t. You said you were in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre when you weren’t. You kind of chalked it up to bad grammar or getting the dates wrong. But your opponents say you lied to make yourself look better. Do they have a point?” the host said.
“Well, look, 35 years ago got the opportunity to be in Hong Kong, be in China, learned a lot about it. Served 24 years in the National Guard. Passionately, in an instance, talking about gun violence in schools on an instance there. Proud of the service that I have done. Proud to be a teacher in that classroom. Proud to have been very public all these years and owning it when I said, look, I was there in August of ’89,” Walz rambled.
“And I think what you see here, you saw it in Minnesota, I have been elected eight times here, these things have been very public for folks here. We see the results of the things that we passed. We see a state that’s top five state for business. We see third-best state, top three states for raising a child. We’ve got the best health care. I think the policies, whether it be dealing with China and understanding China’s human rights record, what you can be certain there is that Kamala Harris and I aren’t gonna put dictators on speed dial, say Xi Jinping is doing a good job during Covid, as Donald Trump said. And I think the lessons learned over a lifetime, being very public, whether it’s in the classroom or being elected,” he said as he danced around the question.
When asked about it on GMA, he admitted that the vice president had scolded him.
“And Vice President Harris, said she told you to be a little bit more careful on how you say things?” the host said.
Former President Donald Trump has gained a narrow lead over Vice President Harris in pollster Nate Silver’s prediction model just weeks before Election Day.
Although the race remains essentially a toss-up, Trump now leads Harris by just over half a percentage point, with 50.2 percent to Harris’s 49.5 percent, according to the model updated Thursday afternoon.
“However nominal, it’s Trump’s first lead in our model since Sept. 19,” Silver wrote on his Silver Bulletin site.
The political forecaster noted that just a day earlier, Harris was leading Trump by about a point, with 50.3 percent to 49.4 percent.
Trump gained ground with “some good polls” entering the database on Thursday, Silver wrote, including a 2-point lead in a Fox News poll and a lead in a Georgia survey, The Hill noted.
Harris took the lead in Silver’s polling aggregation model nearly a month ago. Neither candidate gained or lost significant ground after the earlier presidential debate on September 10, but Harris was performing strongly in five swing states, giving her an advantage.
However, in September, Silver cautioned that the dynamics could shift before Election Day. He conveyed the same message in his Thursday post.
“There’s a good chance that the lead will continue to shift back and forth, akin to a 110-109 basketball game late in the fourth quarter,” he wrote.
Harris was riding high on momentum just a few months ago. After receiving President Biden’s endorsement when he exited the race, she quickly gained traction over Trump nationally and in swing states as the Democrats’ nominee at the party’s convention.
However, recent polls indicate that that momentum has leveled off, with Trump gaining ground nationally and in battleground states as the election approaches.
According to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s polling index, Harris currently holds a 2.7 percentage point lead over Trump, with 49.8 percent support compared to Trump’s 47.1 percent.
“I’ve never seen an election in which the forecast spent more time in the vicinity of 50/50, and I probably never will,” Silver wrote last week, saying the race will likely remain a toss-up until Election Day on Nov. 5.
