Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance trolled his Democratic Party opponent, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, ahead of a Wisconsin rally on Tuesday.
In the short clip, Vance could be seen playing the hunting simulator “Buck Hunter,” a classic arcade game. “Hey guys, J.D. Vance here, playing a little Buck Hunter before a rally in Eau Claire, Wisconsin,” Vance told the camera while holding the video game rifle.
“Also known as the closest Tim Walz has ever gotten to real combat.”
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Vance — who served in Iraq as a combat correspondent at the height of the insurgency in 2005 — has frequently criticized Walz for misrepresenting his military service record. Soldiers from his unit with the Minnesota National Guard have questioned the circumstances surrounding his retirement just before a deployment to Iraq, and have noted that he has misrepresented his rank while on the campaign trail.
The Minnesota National Guard later confirmed that Walz has misrepresented his rank.
Walz has also claimed to have “carried weapons of war,” during a war despite never having deployed to a combat zone, a claim he walked back during an interview with CNN last month.
“You said that you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a war zone. A campaign official said that you misspoke. Did you?” asked CNN’s Dana Bash.
Walz refused to answer the question directly, instead directing the conversation to the topic of mass shootings. “Well, first of all, I’m incredibly proud. I’ve done 24 years of wearing the uniform of this country. Equally proud of my service in a public school classroom, whether it’s Congress or the governor. My record speaks for itself,” the Minnesota governor said.
“But I think people are coming to get to know me. I speak like they do. I speak candidly. I wear my emotions on my sleeves and I speak especially passionately about our children being shot in schools and around guns. So I think people know me. They know who I am. They know where my heart is and again, my record has been out there for over 40 years to speak for itself,” he continued.
Bash followed up by reiterating her question on the “weapons of war” controversy. “Did you misspeak as the campaign has said?” the CNN host asked. “Yeah, I said we were talking about, in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these.”
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