A top Republican is demanding an investigation into Tim Walz after DailyMail.com revealed his previous relationship with the daughter of a Chinese Communist Party official.
The Minnesota governor and Kamala Harris’ running mate had the affair while living and teaching in China in 1989.
Walz was romantically involved with Jenna Wang, 59, who claims the vice presidential hopeful showered her with gifts and seduced her at his small staff quarters in Guangdong province.
The couple was sexually active, traveled together and dated frequently, Wang told DailyMail.com, and they hid everything from her father, who was then a high-ranking CCP official.
Now, after close ties between Walz and Wang were uncovered, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is demanding to know more.
He says Walz should be investigated for his relationship with Wang because “voters deserve to know” before the election in eight days.
Jenna on the beach on Hainan Island in southern China when she visited Walz.
“If today’s story in (Daily Mail) is true, Tim Walz had a relationship with the daughter of a senior Chinese Communist Party official and remained in contact with her for years,” Rubio posted on X.
“If he aspires to be vice president of the United States, voters deserve to know everything about any and all ties he has to the CCP.”
Rubio is currently the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and also sits on the powerful Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.
However, it is not yet clear whether he will push for more investigations through these committees.
His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Jenna Wang, pictured then and now, revealed that the two were forced to hide their relationship from her father, who would disown her for fraternizing with a Westerner.
Tim Walz joined the staff of the nonprofit organization WorldTeach in China in 1989. He is pictured with his students during their year of teaching in China, taken by a mutual friend and given to Wang.
Jenna is the daughter of CCP official Bin Hui, who died in 1999.
Wang’s father, Bin Hui, who was a senior CCP official and union president in his hometown of Guilin at the time of his trysts with Walz.
‘Tim was very passionate and very romantic. I still remember dancing with him to our favorite song, Careless Whisper,” Wang told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.
“The fact that we couldn’t touch or kiss in public made it even more exciting and intense when we were finally alone.”
‘We were deeply in love and I wanted to marry him and start a family. When this didn’t happen, I felt very unhappy and sad. Tim’s behavior was very selfish.
Minnesota Gov. Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz speaks at a campaign rally Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Wang admitted that her father would be very unhappy to know that she was dating a Westerner, so she and Walz had to keep their relationship a secret.
She described meeting Walz at one of his lectures, where she recounted that he praised her beauty.
Although he knew it wouldn’t last due to his strict father, who didn’t want him to socialize with Westerners.
“My father would have been very, very angry and sad if he had found out.”
‘I could never stay overnight because of social conventions. It was very repressive. “Couples walked around the city like robots,” Wang said.
‘But we talked for hours and hours, we stayed in bed, we had sex. He continued to buy me gifts.’
Walz, in a 1990 photo he sent to Wang, is said to have fallen madly in love with the pretty and highly educated English teacher from the nearby No. 8 Middle School several months after his arrival in Foshan.
After returning to China in 1992, the couple’s relationship soured.
She wanted to get married and move to Nebraska, where Walz was staying at the time.
However, that fell through and Walz felt he wanted a path to get to the US.
‘This was very offensive. I told him it’s both or nothing,’ he said. “I wasn’t going to give up my life or my position to move to Nebraska, a cold place in the middle of nowhere that most Chinese people had never heard of.”
Tim Walz during a subsequent trip to China
“I was giving this up to be with Tim, get married and start a family.”
“Knowing now that he wasn’t going to marry me made me feel cheap and common, like I was being treated like a prostitute.”