Vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz headlines third night of DNC

CHICAGO -- When Kamala Harris announced her vice-presidential pick, Indiana's former U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly was quick to congratulate Tim Walz, having been friends with the Minnesota governor since their time in the U.S. congress on the Veteran Affairs Committee together.

Donnelly, who chairs the Indiana Democratic Delegation, says Walz midwestern values line up with Hoosier democrats because he's about faith, family, service.

Walz even spoke at a Hoosier Hospitality dinner in recent years.

"And we're close personal friends he's extraordinary he's talented," said Donnelly. "He's focused on family, and he's focused on good opportunities for everybody."

Fifty different congressmen, Republican veterans, signed a letter today condemning Gov. Walz for, in their words, "lying about his military service."

Among the criticisms, the vice-presidential nominee, when talking about an assault weapons ban in 2018, referred to weapons of war he carried while "in war."

The Harris-Walz campagin said he misspoke, and he instead meant to refer to his time of service "during a war," because he never served in an active combat zone as a member of the United States Army National Guard.