Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz hinted that voters weren't too worried about his “gaffes,” even though he was upset about a number of false statements he made.
Asked about his misconceptions, from his stay in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen protests to his wife's reproductive assistance, Waltz claimed that his passions sometimes stumble him.
“I think they heard me passionately talking about gun violence and gaffes last night,” Walz told “Fox News Sunday,” adding that he was disappointed in the vice-presidential debate when he dawdled in his answer. He hinted that he had just spit out a word. I became friends with a school shooter. ”
He also noted that he corrected the record in August about the couple's frequent claims that his wife, Gwen, had undergone in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive their two children, and that in fact the uterus It was revealed that she had undergone internal insemination (IUI).
Walz sought to downplay this contradiction and turn it around to attack former President Trump.
“When I talk about this, I don't think people care whether I used IUI or IVF. What they understand is that Donald Trump is resistant to these things. I mean deaf,” he added in an interview on Fox News.
Walz, 60, has spent weeks alluding to and sometimes explicitly claiming that she used in vitro fertilization when criticizing Republicans on the issue.
“When I slip up, I'll admit it. When I make a mistake, I'll admit it,” Walz further asserted in his first Sunday interview since becoming the Democratic vice presidential nominee.
He then tried to change direction.
“To be clear, on that debate stage, I asked a very simple question the other night, and Senator Vance is going to admit that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. “I didn't,” he countered.
The Harris-Waltz campaign immediately highlighted the moment in the vice presidential debate in which Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance, 40, refused to declare that former President Donald Trump, 78, had lost the election. Created an ad.
Mr. Walz struggled during the debate when pressed about his false claim that he was in Hong Kong for the Tiananmen Square massacre, which he blamed on his tendency to be “sometimes skittish.”
The vice presidential candidates also clashed over changes the governor signed into law regarding Minnesota's abortion policy. of Born Alive Infant Protection Act The language calling on medical personnel to “protect the life and health of infants who are born alive” has been removed.
Walz argued Sunday that “Minnesota's law is consistent with all other examples of what is required of a physician's ethical responsibilities.” Therefore, nothing changed except to be consistent with all care provided by a physician under any circumstances for any medical incident. ”
he later mentioned ProPublica Story About Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who died after rare complications from taking the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol. The article explained that doctors waited to operate on her, but did not say why.
“States like Georgia are forcing women to cross their borders, and Amber Thurman will die as a result,” Walz argued.
Host Shannon Bream blamed Thurman's family attorney for medical malpractice for Amber's death.
Walz also accused Vance and Trump of misrepresenting his and Vice President Kamala Harris' positions on abortion.
“The Vice President and I have made it clear that restoring Roe v. Wade is what we want: a woman's right to make her own choices,” he said.
The Minnesota governor's Fox News interview comes as the Harris-Waltz campaign finally begins to make its candidate available for more interviews.
Critics have long accused Ms. Harris and Ms. Walz of keeping their media activities to a rather light level since becoming their party's presidential nominee.
Harris, 59, will appear on “The Late Show” with late-night comedian Stephen Colbert and appear on “The View” and “The Howard Stern Show” later this week, according to her campaign. He plans to appear on the show.
