A.G. Gancarski
Two Florida Congressmen known for their military service are stumping for the Republican nominee for Vice President.
Both U.S. Reps. Brian Mast and Mike Waltz are telling Pennsylvanians the differences between JD Vance and Tim Walz.
“I was a Green Beret that served as a commander of a National Guard unit. And guess what, when the nation called and we were told to go, I went,” Waltz said. “As the commander of a unit, I didn’t leave my marine Berets leaderless, like somebody else we may know.”
Waltz said Walz’s “stolen valor” was something that “every veteran here in the room knows what it is and the veterans community is not going to let him get away with it.” That’s a reference to claims the Minnesota Governor made alluding to him fighting in war over the years, which didn’t happen.
Waltz also suggested the Democratic ticket would leave Americans vulnerable to hostile foreign actors.
“If our enemies aren’t afraid of its leadership, if they don’t respect our leaders, which is what we’re seeing right now. It’s all going to fall apart and that’s why we see the world on fire right now. Do you think Xi (Jinping), (Vladimir) Putin, Kim Jong Un are going to be afraid of Kamala Harris and walls and what we’ve seen?”
Mast, a former Staff Sergeant who lost his legs in Afghanistan, continued the theme, saying only Trump and Vance were trying to make the country “worthy of the sacrifice” of Gold Star families, as they are “fighting like hell to make this country worth your sacrifice in war.”
“There are only two people in this race who are fighting to make America worth your service and your sacrifice. And that’s JD and Donald Trump,” Mast said.
“Are you going to have people who live it, who fight it every single day to make this place worth what you all have given up, what your friends in combat have given up, what your friends who gave their lives gave up, what those family members who do not have them gave up, what friends you march alongside in Veterans’ Day parades gave up. They are fighting for that,” Mast said.
23 comments
Michael K
August 15, 2024 at 2:53 pm
The lowest of the low.
There is only one thing that vets say about a fellow vet: “Thank you for your service.”
Unless you are a Trump low-life scum like Chris LaCivita and J.D. whatever surname he was called back when.
Michael K
August 15, 2024 at 3:16 pm
Here’s the Donald Trump version of “stolen valor”:
https://x.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1824023226608910484
ScienceBLVR
August 15, 2024 at 3:48 pm
PINO- Patriot in Name Only.. Mast Waltz Vance..selling out the country they claim to love and smearing vets to do it. Pretty shameful to do so for a criminal conman who calls those who do serve honorably losers and s@ckers. How do they justify that? Disgusting. My WW2 vet father would be ashamed. That’s what MAGA is.
cassandra was right
August 15, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Just shameful. Not only is Vance attacking a fellow veteran, but he is using the confusion that he has created to distract veterans and service people from Project 2025’s impact on them and their families:
“Project 2025 will rob veterans and active duty troops of billions in benefits” —RawStory
“Project 2025 Would Be a Disaster for Veterans. Trump and the Republicans promise to “take care of our veterans,” yet their agenda puts veterans’ health care, jobs, and disability pay at risk.”
—-rolling stone
Google Project 2025’s plans for the military.
Day 25
August 15, 2024 at 10:19 pm
I’m googling if Cassandra was right was in the military and a veteran. It comes up blank. Where and when did you serve and if not STFU.
MH/Duuuval
August 16, 2024 at 8:55 am
Testy as well you should be since the tide is changing.
With “Florida Politics” you never know…
August 15, 2024 at 4:08 pm
Was someone trying to be cute with that headline?🧐
Michael S
August 15, 2024 at 4:13 pm
My own guess is that most voters won’t hold anything against someone who served for 24 years, regardless of when that retirement took place.
On the other hand….The fall after he graduated, Trump was granted a 1-Y medical deferment due to a foot condition.
“I had a doctor that gave me a letter — a very strong letter on the heels,” he told The New York Times.
“They were [heel] spurs,” Trump said of his condition.
“Over a period of time, it healed up,” Trump said.
Unfortunately, Don, you can’t even self-construct an excuse that holds up. Spurs cannot ‘heal’…..spurs always remain unless removed through debridement.
Michael K
August 16, 2024 at 8:54 am
It’s Swift Boating – a desperate move that was disgraceful 20 years ago by Trump’s campaign manager (LaCivita). More of the greatest hits of hate from Republicans.
But James Hamel, as he was known back then, is even more unpopular than Sarah Palin.
Tjb
August 15, 2024 at 4:44 pm
Is Mast one of the “suckers and losers “ that Trump called those who served in the military.
Dont Say FLA
August 15, 2024 at 5:03 pm
They’re letting Sofa King Weird Toadie Pants go out in public all by himself? What a good boy he must be.
Tom
August 16, 2024 at 9:51 am
He seems to speak quite well. The problem is the nonsense that comes out of his mouth. Watching folks try to twist themselves in knots defending trump is entertaining if nothing else.
Tom
August 17, 2024 at 8:37 am
I’m wondering when trump will start hawking JD Vance designed My Pillow Guy pillows? I’m sure there’s an opening there somewhere …
Tjb
August 15, 2024 at 6:12 pm
Looking at the event video, there are more students in my sons classroom than at the this event.
Phil Morton
August 15, 2024 at 8:44 pm
Yes, but who is stumping for Walz and Mast? They both have a primary opponent fin Tuesday’s election.
Jojo
August 16, 2024 at 7:41 am
Mr Gancarski, the least you could have done is correct the lie that Walz “ abandoned ”his unit before they were deployed. Walz left 6 months before the announcement was made and as everyone involved in the military knows, you don’t just Walz in and tell the military you’re quitting. It’s takes months of paperwork
Yrral
August 16, 2024 at 3:57 pm
Walz was right not going to the Bush lied ,Many died war in Iraq Google Iraq War WMD Hoax
Yrral
August 16, 2024 at 3:54 pm
Lots of insecure right wing White men are scared of Kamala Harris, Black people generally are not afraid of anybody, especially insecure right wing White mens
Yrral
August 16, 2024 at 4:18 pm
Why would anybody fear Trump after he asked Twitter to remove a post ,where he got disrespected by Christy Thiegan a petite woman,it hilarious Google Christy Thiegan Disrespected Trump
Yrral
August 16, 2024 at 8:59 pm
Maybe JD will share his panties with them,it seems like he may not be the only one wearing panties at home Google JD Vance Drag Queen
Dont Say FLA
August 17, 2024 at 11:15 am
Could you please stop spamming for Google?
Ocean Joe
August 17, 2024 at 5:45 am
Vance is an odd duck. An intellectual the likes of which Republicans haven’t put forth since Nixon, so it’s hard for him to fit the typical dumb ass/non elite act they all put on to court the average voter.
Focusing on Walz’s military career is a blunder. It worked with purple heart awarded John Kerry because Kerry was an oddball patrician who kept marrying women worth $400,000,000 who saiid things like “I actually voted against the war before I voted for it.”
When do they roll out the Willie Horton ads? You know they want to.
Dont Say FLA
August 17, 2024 at 11:17 am
Agree.
Listening to Toadie Pants talk about how greedy corporations prefer childless workers, I can’t say he’s wrong about that. He’s right. Corporate workers already have a dependent to pay for and his name is Mr CEO. They don’t need to be having their own kids too.
But I can definitely say voting Republican does not fix that situation.
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