Former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura also endorsed the Harris-Walz ticket (Wikimedia Commons) Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, in his last campaign for Minnesota governor, touted an endorsement from a pro-Kremlin conspiracy theorist who called 9/11 a “false flag operation” and allegedly said the Navy SEALs “deserve to lose a few guys” in Iraq. In
Susan Wild, the Democratic Pennsylvania congresswoman in one of the country’s tightest House races, has privately and repeatedly trashed working-class conservative voters in her district as bigots who “drank the Trump Kool-Aid.” But in public, the Pennsylvania Democrat has drastically moderated her positions on hot-button issues as she seeks reelection in her battleground district. Earlier
After winning the House Speaker gavel in 2007, Nancy Pelosi held a press conference with a group of freshman Democrats, one of whom she described as a retired “command sergeant major” in the National Guard who had served his country “on the battlefield.” “He will speak for himself, but I want him to know how
Incident adds to pattern of deceptiveness around Walz’s military service Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz touted misleading descriptions of his military service during his 2006 congressional run, according to a media kit he distributed at the time obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Media kits, or press packets, are
Brown said he ‘often’ skips conventions, but he’s only missed one DNC since 1984 Sherrod Brown (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) will not make it to this year’s Democratic National Convention, a decision he says should not be interpreted as anything out of the ordinary. “I often skip conventions,” Brown told CNN
Walz said he had a ‘responsibility’ to ‘serve if called on’—but quickly left the force when Iraq deployment loomed (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz knew his National Guard battalion was being eyed for a likely deployment to Iraq when he decided to retire, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Walz said
Walz launched his first congressional campaign as ‘a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom’ Tim Walz at Minnesota National Guard 151st Artillery’s E Battery final ceremony (Wikimedia Commons) Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz has described himself as “a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom,” the official name of the U.S. government’s war in Afghanistan following the