Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was asked by the debate moderators about reporting from MPR News that showed he inflated the amount of times he visited China when he was a teacher.
Walz has a long relationship with China and claimed he'd been there "about 30" or "dozens" of times, but after APM Reports questioned how that was possible, his campaign acknowledged the real number of trips from the U.S. to China was "closer to 15."
When asked in the debate about the discrepancy he said he "misspoke," adding that he was "in Hong Kong and China during the Democracy protest" and from that learned a lot.
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