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August 8, 2024 12:12 p.m.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – AUGUST 6: Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz seem on stage collectively throughout a marketing campaign occasion at Girard School on August 6, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Harris ended weeks of hypothesis about who her working mate could be, deciding on the 60-year-old midwestern governor over different candidates. (Picture by Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)
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The Publish’s and the Occasions‘ items on Tim Walz service report are extra egregious and spurious than you’re most likely in a position to think about. The accusations come from two members of his unit who’re clearly MAGA partisans and who floated them throughout his 2022 reelection marketing campaign for Minnesota governor in coordination with Walz’s Republican opponent. The assaults aren’t simply “like” the Swift Boat assaults from 2004. They’re actually the work of the identical man. Chris LaCivita was the strategist who ran the Swift Boat assaults in 2004 and minimize the commercials. He’s now the co-manager of the Trump marketing campaign. He began this after which handed it off to Vance. As David famous, even Politico headlined it as a “Swift Boat” assault. Politico!
The accusation, equivalent to it’s, is that Walz retired from service simply earlier than his unit was deployed to Iraq.
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