The Democrat who said he loved going to China so much that he exaggerated how often he went there was asked about being an agent of that country, according to sources from the failed Kamala Harris presidential campaign.
The story is coming out amid reverberations over the Harris campaign’s question to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro about whether he was an agent of Israel, as noted by CNN.
“I told her how offensive the question was,” Shapiro wrote in his memoirs.
With the attention-grabbing headlines, the campaign indicated that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was asked about his overwhelming affection for China, CNN wrote, citing four sources it did not name.
The Walz question came with significant foundation.
The Washington Free Beacon noted that Walz, in his teaching days, was a proponent of Chinese communism.
“It means that everyone is the same and everyone shares,” Walz taught in 1991.
“The doctor and the construction worker make the same. The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and 14 kg or about 30 pounds of rice per month. They get food and housing,” he said.
Over at Minnesota Public Radio, a report on Walz’s China connections reported that he exaggerated his trips there.