After posting scathing comments about the Democratic vice presidential nominee on social media, the brother of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has made it clear to the media that he does not support his brother’s left-wing views but wants to keep a low profile during the election.
“I’ve been getting a lot of feedback from friends and old acquaintances who feel the same way as my brother on this issue, so I was just trying to make that clear to friends,” Tim Waltz’s brother, Jeff Waltz, told News Nation this week. “I used Facebook, which is not the right platform to do so, but I have to say I don’t agree with his policies.”
Over Labor Day weekend, reports circulated that Jeff did not agree with the policies of the left-leaning Democratic Minnesota governor and was letting friends and family know his views on his Facebook account. While media outlets reported on his social media posts over the holiday weekend, Jeff and the Harris campaign remained silent, with the New York Post publishing an exclusive headline that read, “Tim Walz’s brother is ‘100% against all of his ideology’ and thinks his running mate is not the ‘type of person’ who should be making decisions about the future of the United States.”
After Jeff’s profile went viral on X, a Facebook user wrote a message on his public post urging him to “have a talk with your brother,” who is currently running for Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate.
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“I am 100% against all of his ideologies,” Jeff wrote in a Facebook message about his brother on Friday evening.
“My family was not informed that he had been selected and were denied security a few days later,” he added.
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“SUPPORT MAGA…GET ON STAGE WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SUPPORT HIM…HELPS SAVING THIS COUNTRY…” a Trump supporter wrote on Jeff’s post.
“I’ve seriously considered doing that!” Jeff replied. “I’m torn between doing it and not involving my family.”
“The story I can tell is not about someone making decisions about their future,” he continued.
Jeff told News Nation that his Facebook post was not intended to sway voters, but to make it clear to friends and family that he did not agree with his brother’s politics.
“It was never my intention, nor my family’s intention, to put something out there that would affect the general public,” Jeff told the outlet on Tuesday.
He added that the “stories” he could tell about his brother were simply family anecdotes, such as Tim vomiting in the car during a family trip, and not politically charged.
Waltz was again accused of misrepresentation in a scathing unearthed letter: “Delete any references.”
“Nobody wanted to sit with him because he got carsick and would always throw up on us, that’s what it was,” Jeff said. “There’s nothing hidden other than that. People assume something else. There are other stories like that, but I think that’s probably the gist of it.”
Jeff and Tim Waltz were estranged, Waltz said, and they last met at his brother’s funeral in 2016. Jeff’s wife texted the Minnesota governor to wish him a happy birthday, and the two had a brief phone conversation earlier this year when Tim called his mother.
“He called her cell phone and she gave it to me and I talked to him for a bit,” Jeff explained.
“Harris’ team was vetting him as a potential vice presidential candidate. He asked me for personal information, tax information, etc., which I declined to provide at the time, but it was a two-minute conversation.”
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Jeff said he will keep his head down during the election and will not campaign for or against Harris-Waltz.
“We will not be making any further statements to anyone and we are not campaigning for or against him or anything like that,” he said.
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Governor Waltz has three siblings: Jeff Waltz, Craig Waltz and Sandy Dietrich.
Jeff grew up in rural Nebraska, then moved to the East Coast and now lives in Florida.
Craig died in 2016 when he was hit by a tree falling during a storm while camping on a lake in Minnesota. He worked as a chemistry, calculus and geometry teacher in Minnesota before entering politics in the early 2000s, mirroring Governor Walz’s education background.
Dietrich reportedly lives in Nebraska and maintained a low profile both before and during his brother’s vice presidential run.
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Jeff added that he “disputes” how he found out about Harris’ selection of the Minnesota governor as his running mate.
“My only objection, and I support this 100 percent, is that I was disappointed to find out on the radio that he’d been selected as the vice presidential nominee,” Jeff said, “and I felt like they should have at least given us some advance notice and had some sort of security in place, because I think that’s a big deal.”
Governor Walz first came into politics when he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Minnesota during the 2006 election cycle. He was elected that year and served in that position until he was elected Governor of the Gopher State in 2019.
Walz was little known to voters outside Minnesota before speculation emerged that he might be Harris’ running mate. Since then, he has come under fire from veterans and political opponents for reports that he lied about his decades of service in the Army National Guard before retiring in 2005, his response to the 2020 Minnesota riots and his ever-changing stance on the Second Amendment.
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Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris-Waltz campaign about the Facebook post and Jeffs’ interview but did not immediately receive a response. Jeffs did not respond to repeated calls from Fox Digital.