Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is trying to keep the heat on his Democratic counterpart, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), by claiming he chose to run for Congress rather than go to war.
Walz has faced accusations of abandoning his National Guard unit since being named the Democratic vice presidential candidate on Aug. 6. If the Trump-Vance campaign has its way, that story will stay in the headlines a while longer.
“Tim Walz said that he carried a weapon in war. He never went to war,” Vance said at a Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. post in western Pennsylvania. “Tim Walz said that he didn’t know his united was about to deploy to Iraq when even his own press release at the time said that he knew exactly that. Tim Walz claimed to be a command sergeant major, even had it printed on his challenge coins, and he knew he never achieved that rank.”
During earlier runs for office, Walz was met…
