There is, of course, the not-so-minor wrinkle that Walz has lied about a lot. Axios generously calls Walz a “gaffe factory,” except the words “lie” and “gaffe” are not synonyms.
Walz has, at minimum, comfortably nodded as other people have described him as a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. He said he carried weapons of war “in war,” which he’s now said was a mistake. He’s misstated his rank at retirement many times.
He sent out a fundraising letter that claimed, “My wife and I used I.V.F. (In Vitro Fertilization) to start a family.” The Walzs used IUI (intrauterine insemination), a different procedure that does not involve discarding fertilized embryos.
His congressional campaign offered a nonsense tale downplaying the severity of his DUI.
He also has the habit of saying what he thinks ought to be true, not knowing what actually is true. He asserted that 80 percent of those arrested during the George Floyd riots were from outside the state. The truth was the opposite:
St. Paul police logs show two-thirds of those arrested for looting and property destruction connected to the protests are from Minnesota. And the Minneapolis logs show 93 of the 109 people arrested in the city between Thursday night and Saturday morning reside in-state.
He downplayed the consequences of student learning loss during the pandemic, arguing, “These kids learned resilience, these kids learned compassion for one another, these kids learned problem-solving.” But the state’s test scores since the pandemic tell a different story:
The percentage of Minnesota fourth graders not proficient in reading has increased from 62 percent in 2019 to 68 percent in 2022. Eighth-graders not proficient in math increased from 56 percent to 68 percent. Nearly a third of all Minnesota students were chronically absent — meaning they missed 10 percent or more of school days — during the 2021-2022 school year”
Democrats really want to believe that Tim Walz is a gruff, blunt truth-teller because of his folksy persona. In reality, he’s something of a BS artist.
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