Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz didn’t mention the name of Hamas — or place any direct blame on the terror group for the Oct. 7 massacre when asked how he and Kamala Harris would handle the war in the Gaza Strip.
Asked by Michigan National Public Radio affiliate WCMU Thursday how “a Harris-Walz administration [would] handle the conflict” and whether it would “break with the Biden administration in any way,” the Minnesota governor briefly mentioned the “horrific” terror attack without specifying its perpetrator.
“I think first and foremost what we saw on October 7th was a horrific act of violence against the people of Israel. They have certainly, and the vice president said it, I’ve said it, have the right to defend themselves and the United States will always stand by that,” Walz began, before quickly adding, “but we can’t allow what’s happened in Gaza to happen.”
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