The first lady of Minnesota, a former English teacher, is making her solo debut on the campaign trail—a contrast to Usha Vance.
Gwen Walz made her debut as a solo campaigner for her husband Tim and his running mate Kamala Harris Friday with a pointed attack on his Republican rival JD Vance.
The attack on Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, had been made by Vance at a Christian forum in 2021 with the audio unearthed this week by the left-leaning Heartland Signal. “Randi Weingarten, who’s the head of the most powerful teachers’ union in the country, she doesn’t have a single child,” Vance said in 2021. “If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.
“For a long time Tim and I were teachers who struggled with infertility and we were only able to start a family because of fertility treatment,” she said,. “So this is really personal for me, and I think it is for millions of Americans. Walz did not mention that she had had to correct the record over the couple’s fertility journey after her husband repeatedly said they used IVF—which is controversial in pro-life circles and has been effectively driven out of use in Alabama in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade—when they used a less contentious form of treatment, IUI .
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