Walz pressed at debate on old claim after downplaying he's ‘a knucklehead at times’

Pressed by moderator Margaret Brennan during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) admitted he misspoke about where he traveled to during the Tiananmen protests, even suggesting, “I’m a knucklehead at times.”

“I have poured my heart into my community, I’ve tried to do the best I can, but I’ve not been perfect and I’m a knucklehead at times,” he told Brennan, moderator of "Face The Nation" and a chief foreign affairs correspondent.

He then launched into a longwinded description of his early life in rural Nebraska in “a town you rode your bike with your buddies until the streetlights come on,” but without directly providing an answer.

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That didn’t sit well with the moderator of the first and only vice presidential debate.

“Just to follow up on that, the question was can you explain the discrepancy,” Brennan said.

“I misspoke on this…that’s what I’ve said,” Walz explained, with a nervous pause. “So I was in Hong Kong and China during the democracy protest and from that I learned a lot of what needed to be done in governance.”