Tim Walz regrets getting ‘sucked in’ to addressing Trump’s pet-eating lies

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Tim Walz, Kamala Harris's running mate in the November presidential election won by Donald Trump, says he deplores how much time he spent addressing the opposing campaign's decision to spread false, racist rumors of pets being abducted and eaten in Springfield, Ohio.

They sucked me in on" that, Walz said in a recent episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast. Echoing similar remarks that he made on a recent episode of the Fast Politics With Molly Jong-Fast podcast, he added: I was just horrified and angry when they were demonizing folks in Springfield, Ohio. [And] there I was talking for almost a week about immigration, right where they wanted us to be."