Tim Walz is feeling the heat. He’s scrambling to “correct” his “mis-statements”.

As of 06:06:59 GMT today, this was how Tim Walz framed his National Guard Service on the Kamala Harris campaign web site:

For six terms, Governor Walz represented Minnesota’s First Congressional District – a conservative-leaning district where he was only the second Democrat elected since 1890. The son of an Army veteran and a retired Command Sergeant Major in the Army National Guard himself, Walz was the ranking member on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, where he passed legislation to help stem veterans’ suicides.

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By 09:10:58 GMT today, the paragraph had been revised to read as follows:

For six terms, Governor Walz represented Minnesota’s First Congressional District – a conservative-leaning district where he was only the second Democrat elected since 1890. The son of an Army veteran who served as a command sergeant major, Walz was the ranking member on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, where he passed legislation to help stem veterans’ suicides.

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Tim Walz is provably engaging in a bit of Internet revisionism.

Walz definitely has problems with his military record. These quotes are from a Washington Post piece:

The Harris campaign, in response to those comments, said in its statement to The Post that Walz carried, fired and trained others how to use “weapons of war innumerable times.” It declined to address why Walz claimed incorrectly to have d…

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