Tim Walz has an estranged brother who says the Minnesota governor is “not the kind of person you want making decisions about your future.”
The far-left leader from Minnesota has been polling relatively well since joining Kamala Harris’ ticket, but we may see his brother Jeff Walz join Donald Trump’s campaign.
Jeff Walz, 67, has drawn attention for a post he wrote in May 2023 when a Manhattan grand jury indicted Trump for making payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
He wrote: “We have become a third world banana republic.”
The comments section recently exploded after Walz’s 60-year-old brother stepped down as vice president, and his comments did not flatter the Minnesota leftist.
Tim Walz has an estranged brother named Jerry (pictured left) who says the Minnesota governor is “not the kind of person you want making decisions about your future.”
One commenter wrote on Friday’s post that she should “talk” to her brother about the situation.
Jeff Walz responded: “I haven’t spoken to him in eight years. I am 100% opposed to his entire ideology. My family was not notified that he had been selected and were denied security in the days following.”
Another commenter took the opportunity to ask her to “get on stage with President Trump and endorse him,” arguing that it would “help MAGA” and “save this country.”
“I’ve thought a lot about doing something like that,” Walz explained. “I’m torn between that and just leaving my family out of it.”
Federal Election Commission records show the eldest Walz brother has donated to Trump in the past.
She then mocked the possibility of more gossip about a man who has already exaggerated the truth about his military service and fertility treatments, as well as driving under the influence of alcohol in his youth.
“The stories he could tell,” he said. “He’s not the kind of character you want making decisions about your future.”
He also admitted that he and his brother have not spoken to each other in eight years, although he did not elaborate on why.
Walz’s brother said he hasn’t spoken to the Democrat in eight years and is “100% against his entire ideology”
Like his brother, Walz worked as a teacher in the past, even serving as assistant principal.
Jeff Walz has told reporters who contacted him after the posts that he has no plans to do interviews.
The story is reminiscent of Barack Obama’s half-brother, Malik, who often expressed his disapproval of his brother’s policies.
He is not the first member of the presidential family to repudiate someone for their ideology.
Earlier this week it was revealed in a DailyMail.com exclusive that Kamala Harris’s father Donald owns a home less than a mile from Harris’ West Wing office, but has never visited.
Donald has kept a deliberate distance, determined to stay away from what he has described as the “political hoopla” surrounding his daughter, whose controversial comments he once criticised as “a farce”.
For her part, Harris has previously described their relationship as “not close.”
Her father, who turned 86 a few weeks ago, is a former economics professor whose policies do little to persuade Democratic critics that Kamala does not embrace far-left beliefs.
The far-left leader from Minnesota has been polling relatively well since joining Kamala Harris’ ticket, but we may see his brother Jeff Walz join Donald Trump’s campaign trail.
The story is reminiscent of Barack Obama’s half-brother, Malik, who often expressed his disapproval of his brother’s policies.
Forged in the academic environment of the 1960s, its aggressively Marxist perspective makes it a target for Republican attacks.
The rift between them dates back to Kamala’s early childhood.
In 2018, Donald made his only public intervention in his daughter’s political career to date: brutally scolding her for comments she had made about marijuana.
While promoting her memoir, the then-senator dismissed the idea that she opposed marijuana legalization, saying in a podcast interview: “That’s not true. And look, I joke about it, half-jokingly: Half my family is from Jamaica, are you kidding?”
That “half of his family” is his father’s side, and Professor Harris was not amused by the apparent reference to the stereotype of the marijuana smoker.
In a statement to a Jamaican media outlet, he fumed: “My dearly departed grandmothers, as well as my late parents, must be turning in their graves right now. Speaking on behalf of myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically disassociate ourselves from this farce.”
There was no public response from his daughter or his campaign team, but the family’s broadside was shocking. Professor Harris was soon forced to moderate his anger.
In a statement to Politico, he said: “I have decided to stay out of all the political hoopla by not participating in any media interviews.”
Kamala’s true feelings toward her father remain opaque. In 2021, the vice president told the Washington Post that they were on “good terms.”
Two years later, a statement to the San Francisco Weekly was more nuanced: “My father is a nice guy, but we don’t have a very close relationship,” she said.