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Laura Ingraham claims to know Minnesota well, confuses it with Wisconsin
Television host Laura Ingraham claimed to know Minnestoa well during her Fox News show “The Ingraham Angle,” but appeared to confuse it with the state of Wisconsin.
During her show Wednesday, the TV host criticized the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket after it was announced on Tuesday that he would be Harris’ running mate in the 2024 presidential election.
Fox News contributors Mary Katherine Ham and Molly Hemmingway, editor-in-chief of Federalist, also appeared.
Ingraham began by discussing Walz’ policies, which the she labeled radical and hostile. She then went on to say she was familiar with Walz’ home state of Minnesota, which she said “never recovered” from 2020 — but made a crucial error.
Laura Ingraham arrives at Fox Nation’s Patriot Awards, on November 16, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee. The TV host confused the state of Minnesota with the state of Wisconsin in her show The Ingraham Angle yesterday, while criticizing the new Democrat VP and Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz.
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“If you know Minnesota— and I know it well, especially Milwaukee — it’s changed,” she said.
Milwaukee is in the neighboring state of Wisconsin, not Minnesota, something which X users have commented on a post of the video on the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, which has received 3.8 million views.
The Fox News Channel host has been contacted by Newsweek for comment.
Since Walz’ announcement as Harris’ running mate, his actions in 2020 as Governor of Minnesota have been brought into the spotlight, as people discuss his handling of the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, including protests and rioting in Minneapolis.
Cars in traffic driving with people holding signs at the aftermath scene of the George Floyd Black Lives Matter protest and riots on May 30, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Laura Ingraham criticised Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz for his delayed response in deploying the national guard to help keep order in the wake of the riots after Floyd’s death.
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At least two people were killed and over 600 arrested during the protests, which caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages across Minnesota, the BBC reported.
Three days into the violence, Walz mobilized the Minnesota National Guard to help restore order to Minneapolis.
Critics have argued Walz waited too late to do so, something Walz acknowledged when he called the city’s response an “abject failure,” during a press conference at the time, according to Reuters.
Former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance are among those criticizing Walz for his delayed response in 2020.
In a speech in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Vance said, “Tim Walz was the guy who let rioters burn down Minneapolis and then Kamala Harris was the one who bailed the rioters out of jail. So there’s an interesting team in that sense.”
However, in a June 1, 2020, call about Walz response, Trump said, “I fully agree with the way he handled it,” CNN reported.
Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney for the families of George Floyd and Daunte Wright, who was fatally shot by a police officer in Minnesota in 2021, previously told Newsweek that Walz is a “strong choice” as Harris’ Vice President.
The attorney said, “I gained personal respect for him in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, when he reached out to the Floyd family on multiple occasions – and later to the family of Daunte Wright, and used his position to advocate for passage of police reform legislation.”
Tim Walz has been contacted by Newsweek for comment.
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