Harris Campaign Hammered Over Walz

On Thursday, CNN guest Bryan Lanza criticized the Harris campaign for quietly removing a portion of Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s biography from their website, sparking a response from one of the panelists.

Lanza appeared on “The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer” alongside former Hillary Clinton campaign senior advisor Karen Finney. The discussion centered on the Harris campaign’s decision to delete the mention of “retired command sergeant major” from Walz’s biography after facing backlash from Republicans.

Lanza started by referencing Trump’s press conference earlier in the day and noted that Trump hadn’t addressed the biography edit, suggesting that Walz had “essentially admitted to misleading” about his rank.

‘An Embarrassment’: CNN Guest Blasts Harris Campaign’s ‘Backpedal’ On Walz’s Bio Igniting Ex-Hillary Adviser: 'That is a huge backpedal' https://t.co/SsyNpAcMnv pic.twitter.com/m07wlru4BC

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“No, listen, I think he stepped into the conversation in a way that he actually felt he had control over. You had the media covering a bunch of things, and he probably didn’t feel his narrative was pushing through. So he’s always felt that he’s his best messenger, and he went in to deliver that,” Lanza said. “So what I heard is President Trump wanting three debates, not one. What I heard Vice President Kamala saying was, ‘Maybe we’ll have the debate. Let’s see how the first one goes. What I didn’t hear, though, which Trump’s press conference sort of stepped on, was the fact that Governor Tim Walz had to edit his biography. He sort of admitted that he lied on his biography for the past 20 years, and then Kamala Harris and her campaign had to correct it today. That is a huge backpedal; that’s an embarrassment. 24 hours into this, you’re dissecting the guy’s military record, and you’re finding huge discrepancies that they have to change their biography.”

A viral video, originally shared by the Kamala HQ account on X on Wednesday, showed Walz advocating for gun control and claiming that he carried a weapon during wartime.

Gov. @Tim_Walz: I spent 25 years in the Army and I hunt. I’ve been voting for common sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment, but we can do background checks. We can research the impacts of gun violence. We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war,… pic.twitter.com/3IVaXi2RP2

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 6, 2024

“I spent 25 years in the Army, and I hunt … I’ve been voting for common-sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment, but we can do background checks. We can do CDC research … We can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are at,” Walz said in the video.