It might be easier for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to list the parts of his biography that he hasn’t fabricated or exaggerated.
The Kamala Harris campaign initially stated that Walz was a "Retired command sergeant major." His official Minnesota governor biography still calls him "Command Sergeant Major Walz." In a 2018 post on X, which was then Twitter, he wrote that he was "a retired Command Sergeant Major." Mr. Walz did briefly obtain the rank of command sergeant major in 2004.
"As Command Sergeant Major I have a responsibility not only to ready my battalion for Iraq, but also to serve if called on. I am dedicated to serving my country to the best of my ability, whether that is in Washington, D.C., or in Iraq," Mr. Walz said in an archived March 2005 campaign press release.
In 2018, Mr. Walz argued for gun control by saying, "We can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are at." He never served in a war zone.
Mr. Walz endorsed a 2008 book titled, "Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way." The book described Mr. Walz as a "Longtime National Guardsman who served in Afghanistan." Another video shows him nodding along as a TV host introduced him as having "Served with his battalion in Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan." There's more.
"Today's IVF day. Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children," he said in a July interview on MSNBC. In April, Mr. Walz's gubernatorial campaign sent out a fundraising letter.
As of 2011, Mr. Walz said in an official biography that was close to completing a doctorate in education at St. Mary's University in Minnesota.
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