Har­ris cam­paign walks back Walz bio amid ‘stolen val­or’ con­tro­ver­sy as ques­tions swirl

Harris campaign walks back Walz bio amid ‘stolen valor’ controversy as questions swirl

The Har­ris cam­paign has altered its biog­ra­phy of Min­neso­ta Gov. Tim Walz on its cam­paign web­site, mak­ing a change to a ref­er­ence to his mil­i­tary ser­vice amid ongo­ing scruti­ny of the 2024 Demo­c­ra­t­ic vice pres­i­den­tial nominee’s mil­i­tary credentials.Walz’s biog­ra­phy ini­tial­ly said he was a “retired Com­mand Sergeant Major.” It has since been updat­ed to say that he “served as a com­mand sergeant major.“Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris announced Walz as her run­ning mate Tues­day, set­ting off a series of attacks over Walz’s back­ground as Min­neso­ta gov­er­nor, a law­mak­er and a mem­ber of the Nation­al Guard for near­ly 25 years.VETERAN WHO SERVED IN TIM WALZ’S BATTALION ADDRESSES STOLEN VALOR ACCUSATIONS: ‘FAR DARKER THAN PEOPLE THINK’When Walz left the Guard, he had achieved the rank of com­mand sergeant major, but he was reduced in ran …