Vice President Kamala Harris’s and Gov. Tim Walz’s (D‑MN) presidential campaign said Walz “misspoke” in a video from 2018 where he said he carried weapons into war.
In recent days, Republicans have questioned Walz’s military service, some of which has centered on a video where he referenced “weapons of war that I carried in war.” Walz served 24 years in the National Guard but was not deployed to an active combat zone during that time.
“We can make sure that those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at,” Walz said in the video during comments about gun violence.
Some, including former President Donald Trump’s running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R‑OH), have said that those comments imply that Walz was portraying himself as someone who spent time in an active combat zone. Saturday, the Harris-Walz campaign addressed those comments.
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