By the Republican National Committee
WALZ IS A FAR-LEFT RADICAL
- Walz believes that "one person's socialism is another person's neighborliness" and that he is "more than happy" to be labeled as a "big government liberal."
- Walz is weak on border security and refuses to call what's happening at the border a "crisis."
- Walz supports sanctuary cities and sanctuary states.
- Walz believes that American taxpayers' hard-earned dollars should pay for illegal immigrants' health care and college tuition.
- Walz has repeatedly called for universal health care.
- Walz wants to raise Americans' taxes – proposing to do so multiple times as governor.
- Walz believes in abortion on-demand up until the moment of birth.
- Walz wants to weaken election safeguards –criticizing voter ID proposals as "solutions looking for a problem."
- Walz also supports allowing convicted felons to vote before their probation or parole is complete and passing legislation to federalize elections.
- Walz is extremely "woke."
- Walz said that it's "insane" people would be upset with Target for partnering with a satanic designer to promote trans products for children.
- Walz has publicly acknowledged his "white privilege" as governor and said that "the office of governor had better be used to not just talk about the problem but to solve the problem" of racial equity.
- Walz sympathized with the vandals who tore down a statue of Columbus at the Capitol, and refused to resurrect it.
- Walz is a climate radical who wants to phase out fossil fuels.
- Walz forced Minnesota to adopt stricter emissions standards for cars, trucks, and SUVs – aligning itself with California – despite objections from auto dealers.
- Under Walz's leadership, Minnesota's quality of education has steadily dropped.
- Walz takes his marching orders from teachers union bosses like Randi Weingarten, and was a member of a teachers union himself.
- Walz attacked rural Minnesota as "mostly rocks and cows."
WALZ IS SOFT ON CRIME
- Walz hesitated to commit the Minnesota National Guard for three days while the Twin Cities burned during the riots that followed George Floyd's death in May 2020.
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<li>According to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and records shown to the Star Tribune, when Frey requested the Guard, Walz said he "<a href="https://www.startribune.com/mayor-frey-gov-walz-hesitated-to-deploy-national-guard-during-minneapolis-riots/571999292">would consider it</a>" and "<a href="https://www.startribune.com/mayor-frey-gov-walz-hesitated-to-deploy-national-guard-during-minneapolis-riots/571999292">hesitated</a>."</li>
<li>When Walz was asked why the National Guard was not deployed sooner, he <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/politics/minnesota-governor-tim-walz-cnn-arrest/index.html">suggested</a> it was Frey's call, despite having the authority to deploy Guardsmen as governor.</li>
<li>Walz said he was <a href="https://manhattan.institute/article/rioting-looting-arson-and-violence-have-become-a-civilization-destroying-pandemic">reluctant</a> to mobilize the National Guard as an unwillingness to seem oppressive, saying "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=630465570873885&t=300">I will not patronize you as a white man without living [your] lived experiences</a>." </li>
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<li>Following the George Floyd riots, Walz reneged on <a href="https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2020/02/29/walz-talks-resources-tools-police-officers-st-cloud-conference/4914028002/">providing police with more resources</a> and instead called for "<a href="https://www.startribune.com/police-reform-shadows-minnesota-legislature-s-special-session/571190532">wide-ranging</a>" police reform that included shifting police resources to community groups.
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<li>Minneapolis witnessed "<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/several-minneapolis-police-officers-quit-amid-lack-support-low-morale-following-george-floyds-1510751">new lows</a>" in police morale and saw a <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/02/04/mpls-police-staffing-woes-worse-than-anticipated">21 percent reduction</a> in officers between 2020 and 2021 after the riots.</li>
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WALZ LOVES CHINA
- Walz has spent his entire career cozying up to China.
- From 1989 to 1990, Walz taught a Chinese Communist Party-approved course in China through a program affiliated with Harvard.
- Walz said that he "had never been treated better in his life" than he was in China and that "going there was one of the best things I have ever done."
- Walz said that if the Chinese "had the proper leadership, there are no limits on what they could accomplish."
- In 2011, Walz said he "developed a great admiration for and a close connection with the Chinese people" after teaching there.
- From 1992 to 2003, Walz traveled to China nearly every summer, and even got married and "honeymooned" there in 1994.
- Walz led annual trips to China for hundreds of Minnesota high school students – calling one of the trips to China "a 15-day adventure of a lifetime."
- In 1993, Walz and the Chinese government jointly sponsored $800 scholarships for seven students to study in China.
- Walz can speak Chinese, answering a question in Chinese in 2005 during his congressional exploratory tour and making reservations in Chinse in 1993 for a school group.
- Walz served as a visiting fellow at the Macau Polytechnic University – a position he says "helped develop his knowledge of China's unique international status."
- In 2010, Walz supported a stimulus package that approved $1.5 billion in grants to overseas energy companies, including Chinese firms.
- In 2014, Walz welcomed and praised officials from China's Henan province that were visiting Minnesota as part of a joint cancer research program.
- Walz said that he had a "deep respect" for Chinese culture and that "when we [China and the U.S.] work together and when we collaborate together, there's nothing we can't solve."
- Years later, Henan province was separately in hot water over its desire to create an AI surveillance database of journalists and suspicious people.
- In 2015, Walz traveled to China and Tibet as part of a congressional delegation, and afterwards lauded China's "spectacular" modernization.
WALZ'S ETHICAL ISSUES, CORRUPTION, AND SCANDALS
- Walz covered up Biden's health, saying that it was "ageism" for Americans to be concerned about Biden's fitness for office and that he would "take Joe Biden at 100 over any of these guys at whatever age they're at because he's delivering."
- In 1995, Walz was arrested for going 96 mph in a 55 mph zone.
- A state troopers report found "a strong odor of alcoholic beverage was detected emitting from Mr. Walz breath and person" and that he failed both a field sobriety test and a preliminary breath test.
- While Walz was initially charged with driving under the influence and speeding, the charges were reduced to one count of reckless driving under a plea deal.
- Walz has claimed in campaign materials that he is a former "Command Sergeant Major" in the Army National Guard despite not completing the requirements to hold the rank into retirement.
- Walz did retire as a Command Sergeant Major, but his rank was later officially reduced to Master Sergeant due to his failure to complete the ranks requirements.
- While the Minnesota National Guard says Walz is not incorrect for saying he served as Command Sergeant Major, former Minnesota National Guard members hold the opinion that "Yes, he served at that rank, but was never qualified at that rank, and will receive retirement benefits at one rank below. You be the judge."
- Walz has been criticized by three former National Guard members for quitting his position in 2005 after the unit was notified on their deployment to Iraq.
- Walz claimed that his enlistment was up since he signed up for four years, but according to official documents, Walz actually re-enlisted for six years with a 2007 end-date.
- In 2020, Walz disparaged the National Guard as not being "massively trained troops" but rather "19-year-olds who are cooks."
- Walz has continued to maintain a close relationship with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, despite Ellison's previous allegations of abusing a girlfriend, his support for Louis Farrakhan, and his comparison of the Bush administration to Hitler's Germany.
