Tim Walz’s mother, Darlene Walz, is not interfering in the rift between her son, who is running for vice president, and his brother, a Trump supporter who has become a thorn in the side of the Harris-Walz campaign.
“I want to be at peace,” Walz, 89, said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast Wednesday from her home in Butte, Nebraska, which she called “a place on the road in the middle of nowhere.”
Walz said she wants her son and Kamala Harris to beat Donald Trump and J.D. Vance — she predicted they would win and her son, the governor of Minnesota, “will be vice president” — but she doesn’t want to interfere with her two sons’ rocky relationship. .
Darlene Walz is a lifelong Democrat who campaigned with her son when he successfully ran for Congress, barnstormed “every town in Minnesota” when he ran for governor, and attended the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and her son Tim His party’s nomination was accepted. Vice President “Oh man, it was a blast,” she said. “It was amazing.”
But the split between her sons Tim and Jeff Walz is so fractured and fragile, it seems she tried to intervene.
“I think probably the best thing for me is to stay away from it,” she told The Daily Beast.
His eldest son, Jeff Walz, who lives in the ultra-conservative Florida Panhandle town of Freeport, is being wooed by Donald Trump and the MAGA world to perform the ultimate act of political defiance against his liberal brother: they want his endorsement. “I’ve thought long and hard about doing something like this,” the 67-year-old Walz brother admitted in a Facebook post last week. I am torn between it and keeping my family away from it.
Darlene Walz said her daughter, Kathy Dietrich, approached Jeff Walz to tone down the divisive attacks on her brother. Whatever she told her brother seemed to work, because on Tuesday He went back says his online diatribe against Governor Walz NewsNation Tuesday That while he does not agree with his brother’s political views, he will not try to influence the outcome of the election.
“Nobody has to make any further statements, and we’re not campaigning for or against it or anything like that,” he said.
Darlene Walz described her daughter, who also lives in Nebraska, as a “fierce Democrat.”
“Maybe we’re hoping it’s going to be somewhere that’s resolved in a better way,” the Minnesota governor’s mother told The Daily Beast of the relationship between her two surviving sons. His third son, Craig Walz, died in 2016 when a tree fell on his campsite. All four of her children were teachers, the proud mother said.
The Vice Presidential Nominee’s Mother Says The Nebraska Vols Photo Is For Trump Family Members It went viral online Wednesday is mostly a “second cousin” on her late husband’s side of the family.
The photo was first posted by Nebraska Republican Charles Herbster, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2022.
Rod Edwards, a spokesman for Herbster, told The Associated Press that he was Walz’s second cousin.
“The family in the picture are descendants of Francis Walz, who was Tim Walz’s grandfather’s brother,” Edwards said. “They’re all volzs and mates.”
Trump used the photo opportunity to thank Jeff Walz for an endorsement he didn’t lend. Darlene Walz said she’s not at all surprised to see the Nebraska side of the Walz family shine in photos as they wear their custom-made Trump T-shirts.
“My in-laws were different,” she said, adding that she didn’t mean it negatively, noting that most families in the bitterly divided United States have both Republicans and Democrats in their fold.
“It’s okay, it’s okay,” said Darlene Walz. Her only advice to polarized families like her own is: “Keep your mouth shut and vote.”
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