The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3:

5:00pm- JD Vance Accuses Tim Walz of Lying About Military Service: Caitlin Doornbos and Josh Christenson of The New York Post write, “veterans have accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of “embellishing” his military career and abandoning his National Guard battalion, highlighting that the now-vice presidential pick for the Democrats never served in combat and retired from service ahead of his unit’s 2005 deployment to Iraq. In a letter posted to Facebook in 2018 as he first ran for governor, retired Command Sergeants Major Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr said Walz retired from his 24-year tenure in the National Guard after learning that his battalion would be deployed to Iraq, despite allegedly assuring his fellow troops he would join them.” You can read the full article here: https://nypost.com/2024/08/06/us-news/tim-walz-embellished-military-career-for-years-dropped-from-national-guard-unit-ahead-of-iraq-deployment/

5:10pm- In his op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, retired Minneapolis attorney Scott W. Johnson meticulously details Tim Walz’s many failures while serving as governor of Minnesota. Johnson writes: “Tim Walz has such a bad record as Minnesota’s governor that I was astonished when he landed on Vice President Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential shortlist. As Minnesota’s Center of the American Experiment has documented, under Mr. Walz Minnesota has become a high-crime state. Student achievement has tumbled as spending on schools has skyrocketed. Per capita gross domestic product has fallen below the national average. Minnesotans have joined residents of New York, California and Illinois in fleeing their home state.” You can read the full editorial here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-minnesotan-sizes-up-tim-walz-progressive-vice-president-crime-education-covid-e4e757ec?mod=opinion_lead_pos5

5:20pm- Will Tim Walz’s presence on the ticket provide any sort of electoral advantage to Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race? Examining Walz’s 2022 gubernatorial race, NBC election analyst Steve Kornacki concludes that Walz relied heavily on traditional Democrat voters—and didn’t have much luck appealing to rural voters or moderates.

5:45pm- NBC News Washington Correspondent Yamiche Aclindor reports that the Harris-Walz campaign is “not engaging on whether or not [Tim Walz] was falsifying his military record.”

5:50pm- While speaking with Robert Costa of CBS News, President Joe Biden said he is not confident there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025 if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.