Poli­ti­Fact Rates Vance ‘Most­ly False’ For Claim Walz Aban­doned Unit

Fol­low­ing days of con­tro­ver­sy, Poli­ti­Fact offi­cial­ly gave GOP vice pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee JD Vance a “most­ly false” rat­ing on Fri­day for claim­ing his Demo­c­ra­t­ic coun­ter­part, Tim Walz, aban­doned his Nation­al Guard unit pri­or to its deploy­ment to Iraq. How­ev­er, Poli­ti­Fact omit­ted some key details from those who served with Walz that could’ve changed the truth-o-meter.

In the “if your time is short” sum­ma­ry, Sara Swann writes, “Demo­c­ra­t­ic vice pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Tim Walz served in the Nebras­ka and Minne …