Gov. Tim Walz has repeatedly excused certain inconsistencies between his record and his rhetoric by saying he misspoke. On Wednesday, less than 24 hours after a mostly unnoteworthy vice presidential debate, Walz said one of the more head-scratching moments of the debate — when he claimed he had befriended school shooters — was, once again, because he didn’t get his words right.
“You have seen me do this,” Walz said. “I was talking about being people where there are school shooters, and I need to be more specific on that, but I am passionate about this.”
Walz clarified his remarks Wednesday while answering questions after arriving in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the first stop on a swing through multiple battleground states.