4 political family rifts ahead of the 2024 presidential election

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Saturday, September 21, 2024

Tim Walz

In 2023, before Harris selected Walz as her running mate, the Minnesota governor's brother Jeff made a Facebook post reacting to Trump's indictment, declaring, "We've just become a third world banana republic."

Comments left on the post more than a year later, after Gov. Walz became Harris' running mate, outline Jeff Walz's disapproval of his brother's ideology.

In response to a comment urging him to "have a talk with your brother," Jeff Walz responded, "Haven't spoken to him in 8 years."

The vice presidential nominee's brother added, "I'm 100% opposed to all his ideology" and lamented that "My family wasn't given any notice [that] he was selected and denied security the days after."

When another commenter asked Walz to "Get on stage with President Trump and endorse him," he replied that he had no intention of doing so.

"I've thought hard about doing something like that! I'm torn between that and just keeping my family out of it. The stories I could tell. Not the type of character you want making decisions about your future," he responded.

While Jeff Walz indicated in an interview with NewsNation that he did not intend for his comments to receive national attention, he stood by his analysis.

"It wasn't my intent, it wasn't our intent as a family, to put something out there to influence the … general public," he said. "We're not campaigning or anything for him or against him or anything like that."

Jeff Walz clarified that the only reason he made the social media posts in the first place was to address "feedback from my friends, old acquaintances, thinking that I was feeling the same way that my brother did on the issues."

In recent weeks, a photo of Walz's distant cousins wearing shirts reading "Nebraska Walz's for Trump" has made rounds on social media and was reposted by Trump.