Harris Team Edit Bio On Website
It looks like the Harris-Walz campaign is feeling the heat, and not in a good way. After days of relentless criticism over Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's embellishments of his military record, the campaign has made a quiet attempt to clean things up. But let’s be real, folks—what they’ve done is more like a band-aid on a gaping wound.
Here’s the deal: The controversy centers around Walz's military service in the Army National Guard. The Harris campaign’s website originally touted Walz as a “retired Command Sergeant Major,” a claim that has now been amended to state that he “once served at the command sergeant major rank.”
While this may seem like a minor tweak, it’s significant because it addresses only a small part of the problem. Walz did serve 24 years in the National Guard and retired in 2005 to enter politics, becoming the most senior enlisted soldier to serve in Congress. But here’s the thing—he never actually deployed to a combat zone.
Gov. @Tim_Walz: I spent 25 years in the Army and I hunt. I’ve been voting for common sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment, but we can do background checks. We can research the impacts of gun violence. We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war,… pic.twitter.com/3IVaXi2RP2
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 6, 2024
That’s the crux of the issue that’s got veterans and critics up in arms. The original biography didn’t just stretch the truth; it fundamentally misrepresented Walz’s service. And it’s not just about his rank—Walz has made claims about “carrying weapons of war in war,” a statement that is flat-out false. He was never in a combat zone, never faced the dangers that come with deployment to a war zone, and yet, his rhetoric paints a very different picture.
Let’s not forget the story that really put Walz on the political map. Back in the day, at a protest against then-President George W. Bush, Walz presented himself as a “command sergeant major who’d just returned from fighting the war on terrorism.”
It was a bold claim, one that portrayed him as a battle-hardened veteran standing up to the powers that be. But here’s the kicker—none of it was true. He hadn’t just returned from a war; he hadn’t been anywhere near a war. This lie was the foundation upon which his political career was built.
Wow - Harris campaign doesn't understand that by continuing to lie that Walz had a higher rank than he actually had, it makes it look MUCH WORSE that he abandoned his men right before an arduous combat deployment.
If he had been lower level, it would not be such a sharp…
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) August 8, 2024
Now, as Walz finds himself in the national spotlight as Kamala Harris’s running mate for 2024, these lies are coming back to haunt him. The Harris campaign’s half-hearted attempt to correct the record by tweaking his biography only serves to highlight the broader deception. Veterans and others aren’t letting this slide, and they’re rightfully keeping the pressure on.