Vice-presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (D) is once again using a lie about his life to push attacks against former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) — this time falsely claiming that he and his wife used in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments to conceive their children.
On at least three separate occasions, Walz used his supposed “personal” story of IVF to condemn Republicans’ supposed attacks on so-called “reproductive rights” — claiming that his family would not exist if it were up to Trump, Vance and the GOP, despite the fact that neither Trump nor Vance oppose IVF.
Today it came out that Tim Walz had lied about having a family via IVF. Who lies about something like that? https://t.co/gKwUwgxHCD
— JD Vance (@JDVance) August 20, 2024
During his first political rally after being picked as Harris’ running mate, Walz falsely claimed that IVF would be restricted under Trump’s second term.
“This gets personal for me and my family,” Walz said. “When my wife and I decided to have children we spent years going through infertility treatments. And I remember praying every night for a call for good news. The pit in my stomach when the phone rang, and the agony when we heard that the treatments hadn’t worked. So this wasn’t by chance that when we welcomed my daughter into the world, we named her Hope.”
Just last month, Walz appeared on MSNBC and stated: “Today is IVF day. Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children.”
THREAD: In addition to his military career & drunk driving arrest, there’s another topic about which @Tim_Walz has been lying for political purposes —the conception of his own children. Since IVF treatments entered the news earlier this year, Walz has been repeatedly claiming he… pic.twitter.com/hHdfSsiGaI
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 20, 2024
However, this was a lie — as Walz and his wife, Gwen, used intrauterine insemination (IUI), not IVF. This is a completely different procedure that does not involve the process that makes many conservatives oppose IVF: creating or discarding embryos. The Harris-Walz presidential campaign even confirmed that the Walz family used IUI, not IVF, to conceive their children in a statement this week.
Grabien founder Tom Elliott highlighted several instances of Walz telling this lie in a thread on X, pointing out that he made the false statements during at least two other rallies, one in Arizona and one in Wisconsin.
Here’s Walz in Wisconsin two weeks ago again claiming his kids were conceived thanks to IVF: “Some of you may have heard this. [IVF] is personal for my wife and I. When Gwen & I decided to have children, we went through years of fertility treatments. The phone would ring,… pic.twitter.com/CVOQcIPeLZ
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 20, 2024
This is just the latest in a long line of bizarre lies told by Walz, with several being told in a desperate attempt to score political points and others just being strange fabrications that served no purpose. One of the latter involved his lie during an “interview” with Harris, where he claimed that he only makes “white guy tacos” with beef and cheese, no spices — despite having an award-winning “Turkey Taco Hotdish” that involved diced green chile peppers, medium taco sauce and chili powder.
Several of his other lies were listed in a post by commentator Greg Price, who pointed to the various aspects of Walz’s stolen valor controversy and his past lie about being deaf, which he told police officers in an attempt to get out of a DUI.
Update on the lies that Tim Walz has told:
– Being an Afghan veteran
– Being a command sgt major
– Conceiving his children through IVF
– Knowing his unit was being deployed
– Carrying weapons into war
– Being a head football coach
– Lying about being deaf to get out of a DUI— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 20, 2024
