Tim Walz, a self-proclaimed “knucklehead,” revealed that he gave his cell phone that ridiculous code name after Vice President Kamala Harris accidentally ignored a call saying she was her running mate. .
The left-handed Minnesota governor told Jimmy Kimmel late Monday that Harris tried to call her in early August to tell her he was the Democratic nominee, but he didn't respond.
“It was a number that wasn't stamped on it, so I guess it's like a warranty on a car,” Walz said. told Kimmel Laughter erupted from the studio audience.
The only time he ever answered a life-changing phone call was when “a high-ranking aide called me,” he recalled, “and said, 'pick up the phone.'”
Kimmel asked if Harris was saved in his phone contacts to avoid further missed calls. Walz revealed that Harris had been saved, albeit under a strange pseudonym.
When Kimmel asked Walz what her contact name was, he bluntly confessed, “That's my dry cleaner.”
“They told me to come up with something, and that's all I could think of,” Walz said with a shrug.
Kimmel asked him what would happen if Walz's actual dry cleaner needed to inform Walz that the suit was ready.
“I wasn't thinking that far ahead,” he admitted.
The late-night host joked that Waltz should change his contact information at the dry cleaners to “Mrs. Vice President.”
Walz appeared on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' after the Midwest native struggled with Donald Trump's running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, in the vice presidential debate. This incident happened less than a week ago.
He particularly stumbled when asked about reports that he had lied about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen protests in the spring of 1989.
Walz admitted the next day that he had “got the date wrong.”
