Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) has expressed his remorse on the approach wherein he felt he bought swept up — as Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ operating mate — in combating a racist lie that was peddled by Donald Trump’s marketing campaign throughout the 2024 election.
“They sucked me in” on the debunked rumor that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, had been consuming the pets of native residents, Walz instructed New Yorker editor David Remnick on the newest episode of “The New Yorker Radio Hour” podcast.
“I used to be simply horrified and indignant once they had been demonizing of us in Springfield, Ohio, and there I used to be speaking for nearly per week about immigration, proper the place they needed us to be,” Walz remembered.
The lie — which reached a pinnacle with Trump’s false debate declare about “they’re eating the cats” and canines — “bothered me on an actual human foundation,” Walz added.
“On that one I used to be fairly fired up, you understand, pushing again, it wasn’t honest, we have to do that. It simply struck me,” he mentioned. However Trump “was proper, for no matter cause,” Walz lamented, “that extra individuals had been OK with saying that than they had been in opposition to.”
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