It was another bad day for Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz. It wasn’t enough that his big brother, Jeff, said he wasn’t the “type of character” to make decisions for a great nation.
Now, it turns out, Walz’s family back in Nebraska, his home state, won’t vote for him, either. They’re going to vote for former President Donald Trump.
They appeared on X in pro-Trump T-shirts, courtesy of GOP activist and former gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster. Jeff Walz also clarified his comments about brother Tim for NewsNation.
Meanwhile, in another black eye for Walz and Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, Walz was caught lying again. This time, Walz said that Trump would reinstate child labor, a preposterous claim given that child labor is illegal. And both have lied that Trump slashed overtime benefits for American workers.
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The news from the Cornhusker Walzes showed up on Herbster’s feed today.
“Tim Walz’s family back in Nebraska wants you to know something …,” Herbster wrote over a photo of eight family members.
The Walz family wore shirts emblazoned with this message:
Nebraska Walz’s for Trump.
Despite the misspelling, the word from Walz Central isn’t a good look for the veep candidate. He’s had one bruising day after another since Harris picked him to help ruin the country should she be elected.
And as if Walz needed to hear from big brother Jeff again, he clarified Facebook comments about his intention and his brother that went viral the other day.
Jeff Walz, 67, wrote on Facebook that he is “100% opposed to [Tim’s] ideology.” When a commenter suggested that he should “Get on stage with President Trump and endorse him,” Jeff Walz replied that he might just do that.
“I’ve thought long and hard about doing something like that! I’m torn between that and just keeping my family out of it,” the elder Walz said. “The stories I could tell. Not the type of character you want making decisions about your future.”
But that’s not going to happen, he told NewsNation.
“It wasn’t my intent, it wasn’t our intent as a family, to put something out there to influence the general public,” he told the website.
Walz said feedback from friends and “old acquaintances” suggested that he “was feeling the same way that my brother did on the issues, and I was trying to clarify that just to friends.”
Walz said Facebook was the wrong platform “to do that. But I will say, I don’t agree with his policies.”
Walz also recalled for the website why the Walz kids didn’t want to sit next to Tim in moving automobile:
Nobody wanted to sit with him, because he had car sickness and would always throw up on us, that sort of thing. There’s really nothing else hidden behind there. People are assuming something else. There’s other stories like that, but I think that probably gives you the gist of it.
Jeff Walz and his younger brother have not spoken since their younger brother, Craig’s, funeral in 2016 — aside from his wife texting Gov. Walz “happy birthday” and a brief phone call last month through their mother.
“He called on her cellphone, and she gave me the cellphone. I talked to him briefly,” Jeff Walz explained.
Walz said the Harris campaign was vetting his brother, who asked Jeff if he would divulge “personal” and “tax” information. Jeff Walz refused. The two-minute conversation ended.
“The only thing I took exception to, and I will stand behind this 100%, was that we felt bad that we found out about his being picked as the vice presidential candidate from radio” the elder Walz told the website:
And we felt like we probably should have been given a heads-up and some type of security, at least for a short time, because I guess that is a big thing.
The Florida Walz is finished speaking publicly. “There is going to be no further statements to anybody, and we’re not campaigning or anything for him or against him or anything like that,” he told NewsNation.
New Lies
That’s too bad, for Jeff Walz could likely provide insight into his brother’s strained relationship with the truth.
The latest fib from Walz went like this:
Somebody said, “what’s next, child labor?” Hell, yeah, it’s in there. That’s what they got in there. You see states doing that, putting our children at risk. That’s what they’ll do.
No, “they” won’t. 29 U.S. Code, Section 212 strictly forbids what Walz is describing. “No producer, manufacturer, or dealer shall ship or deliver for shipment in commerce any goods produced in an establishment situated in the United States in or about which within thirty days prior to the removal of such goods therefrom any oppressive child labor has been employed,” the law says.
And, it continues:
No employer shall employ any oppressive child labor in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce or in any enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce.
Maybe Walz was thinking of the Biden-Harris administration, which ignored repeated complaints that Biden “migrant” children were working in sweatshops — complaints that the administration ignored, the New York Times reported in the third of three major stories about the scandal.
Reported the New York Times in February:
Migrant children, who have been coming into the United States without their parents in record numbers, are ending up in some of the most punishing jobs in the country, a New York Times investigation found. This shadow work force extends across industries in every state, flouting child labor laws that have been in place for nearly a century. Twelve-year-old roofers in Florida and Tennessee. Underage slaughterhouse workers in Delaware, Mississippi and North Carolina. Children sawing planks of wood on overnight shifts in South Dakota.
Yet another bogus claim from the two Democrats, as the KamalaHQ X feed put it, is that ”Trump blocked overtime benefits for millions of workers.”
That is false, as the leftist Politifact website found.
H/T: The Hill
