EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and former journalist who lived in Minnesota for 12 years before relocating to Tennessee, and Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, said they believe Minnesota Governor Tim Walz may have “mangled” his answer during Tuesday’s night’s vice presidential debate when he was pressed on his trip to Hong Kong, China in 1989 to cover up his deeper connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

During Tuesday night’s debate against U.S. Senator JD Vance (R-OH), CBS moderator Margaret Brennan pressed Walz on his false claim that he was in China in the spring of 1989 as the Tiananmen Square protests took place.