Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, has already proven to be quite the liability for Harris's campaign for a number of recent controversies surrounding his past.
According to the Washington Examiner, Walz's numerous stories about his private and political past have been picked apart by his opponents, who often find glaring inconsistencies that typically forces the Harris campaign to deploy damage control measures.
His latest inaccuracy regarding his past stems from his own political origin story.
It's a story he's told on many occasions, and most of his followers just believed him for his word. The Examiner noted that it's packed full of inaccurate information, to be kind.
When speaking about his political origin story, Walz spins quite a tale about how he took two of his students to a political rally for former President George W. Bush in 2004, where he claims they were denied entry because one of the students was sporting a John Kerry sticker.
The lies are thick. First of all, Walz was admitted into the rally.
Secondly, the two so-called "students" with him -- Matt Klaber and Nick Burkhart -- were not students.
Thirdly, the two young men were initially denied entry because of a confrontation earlier in the week that was so bad that it made local news.
In other words, nearly the entire story is nothing more than a straight-up lie. Walz has told the story so much that he presumably believes it.
This is the same vice presidential candidate who has made many disgustingly disrespectful false claims regarding his military service, causing a perpetual headache for the Harris campaign.
The Examiner added:
And while Walz framed the squabble as the “moment that I decided to run for office” since he had “never been overly involved in political campaigns,” evidence suggests that Walz was already politically active by that point: He participated days earlier in an anti-Bush protest before the 2004 Bush rally in Mankota, Minnesota, on Aug. 4, an image confirms.
One of the major problems with Walz's silly, made-up and exaggerated story is that nobody in the press, until now, bothered to call him out on it, and because he's told it as truth so many times, the media continues to parrot it.
It's truly frightening to see how far in the tank most of the media is for Harris and Walz.
Many believe his past will be too radioactive for Harris' campaign. Only time will tell.
