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(NewsNation) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's older brother, Jeff, has admitted exclusively to NewsNation that helium does not privation to power voters contempt his absorption to the Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee's views.
Jeff Walz's Facebook posts caused a disturbance successful some mainstream and societal media arsenic helium described the Minnesota politician arsenic "not the benignant of quality you privation making decisions astir your future."
Despite saying to his Facebook friends that helium had "thought agelong and hard" astir publically endorsing erstwhile President Donald Trump, helium present wishes to beryllium uninvolved successful immoderate governmental campaign.
"It wasn't my intent, it wasn't our intent arsenic a family, to enactment thing retired determination to power the wide public," Jeff Walz told NewsNation.
Jeff Walz, who is simply a registered Republican and donated $20 to Trump's 2016 run per The New York Post, explained his societal media posts were intended to rebuke rhetoric that helium was successful lockstep with his brother's views.
"I was getting a batch of feedback from my friends, aged acquaintances, reasoning that I was feeling the aforesaid mode that my member did connected the issues, and I was trying to clarify that conscionable to friends," Jeff Walz said. "I utilized Facebook, which wasn't the close level to bash that. But I volition say, I don't hold with his policies."
In the Facebook posts archetypal seen by the Post, Jeff Walz said determination were "stories (he) could tell" that implied his member wasn't "the benignant of quality you privation making decisions astir your future."
Now, helium told NewsNation these "stories" travel a akin enactment to 1 wherein Tim Walz's siblings didn't privation to beryllium with him owed to car sickness erstwhile they were younger.
"Nobody wanted to beryllium with him, due to the fact that helium had car sickness and would ever propulsion up connected us, that benignant of thing," Jeff Walz said. "There's truly thing other hidden down there. People are assuming thing else. There's different stories similar that, but I deliberation that astir apt gives you the gist of it."
Jeff Walz and his younger member person not spoken since their younger brother, Craig's, ceremonial successful 2016 — speech from his woman texting Gov. Walz "happy birthday" and a little telephone telephone past period done their mother.
"He called connected her cellphone, and she gave maine the cellphone. I talked to him briefly," Jeff Walz explained.
"Harris' squad was vetting him for the vice president. He had asked maine for immoderate idiosyncratic information; taxation accusation and worldly similar that, and I declined to springiness it astatine that point, but that was similar a two-minute conversation."
Despite their estrangement, Jeff Walz said he's inactive upset his member did not springiness the household announcement that helium was becoming the Democratic Party’s vice statesmanlike nominee.
"The lone happening I took objection to, and I volition basal down this 100%, was that we felt bad
that we recovered retired astir his being picked arsenic the vice statesmanlike campaigner from radio," Jeff Walz said. "And we felt similar we astir apt should person been fixed a heads-up and immoderate benignant of security, at
least for a abbreviated time, due to the fact that I conjecture that is simply a large thing."
While Jeff Walz reiterated helium wholly disagrees with his younger brother's policies, helium volition depart from the nationalist eye. He has not communicated with members from either governmental party.
"There is going to beryllium nary further statements to anybody, and we're not campaigning oregon thing for him oregon against him oregon thing similar that," helium said.
