A new leaked image shows members of vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz’s family are supporting his Republican rival.
The photo shared by former Nebraska GOP gubernatorial candidate Charles W. Herbster shows eight people wearing ‘Nebraska Walz’s for Trump’ t-shirts.
A representative for Herbster told DailyMail.com those posing are related to Walz through his grandfather’s brother.
‘Tim Walz’s family back in Nebraska wants you to know something…’ Herbster captioned the image.
Trump replied to the image on Wednesday by previewing he plans to ‘meet’ with another member of Walz’s family who is not in the image – the governor’s older brother Jeff, who the former president says endorses his White House bid.
The photo quickly went viral among MAGA users who say his own family’s opposition to his candidacy is proof that people should be wary of voting for a Harris-Walz ticket.
Eight members of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s family in Nebraska posing for an image showing their support for Republican rival Donald Trump
The Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment on the image and the growing number of family members coming out in support of the Donald Trump– J.D. Vance Republican ticket.
The image of the grammatically incorrect t-shirts donned by a faction of pro-Trump Walz family members comes after it was revealed that the Democratic vice presidential nominee’s brother warned against people allowing him into the White House.
Jeff Walz, 67, lives in Florida and is Kamala Harris’ running mate’s older brother. He posted about his brother’s character in a Facebook post last week.
I’m 100% opposed to all his ideology,’ he stated in one of the posts.
But Jeff now admits he didn’t mean to influence voters with his social media activity.
‘It wasn’t my intent, it wasn’t our intent as a family, to put something out there to influence the general public,’ Jeff Walz told NewsNation.
‘I was getting a lot of feedback from my friends, old acquaintances, thinking that I was feeling the same way that my brother did on the issues, and I was trying to clarify that just to friends,’ he continued.
‘I used Facebook, which wasn’t the right platform to do that. But I will say, I don’t agree with his policies.’
Trump posted on Truth Social on Wednesday the image of the Walz family and said he plans to meet Walz’s brother.
‘Thank you very much, Jeff,’ the former president wrote. ‘It is a Great Honor to have your Endorsement.’
‘I look forward to meeting you soon!’
A growwing number of Walz’s family are coming out in opposition to his vice presidential candidacy with Kamala Harris leading the Democratic ticket
Trump reposted the image to his Truth Social account on Wednesday and previewed he would be meeting a family member not pictured – Gov. Walz’s older brother Jeff
Tim Walz’s estranged brother named Jeff (pictured left with wife Laurie) said on Facebook last week that the Minnesota governor is ‘not the type of character you want making decisions about your future’
The married father-of-two was urged on Facebook to throw his weight behind the Trump campaign by other users.
Jeff, who lives in Freeport, Florida with his wife Laurie, followed up by responding to others who told him to ‘speak up … at this pivotal moment in history.’
‘I’ve thought long and hard about doing something like that! I’m torn between that and just keeping my family out of it,’ Jeff replied.
‘The stories I could tell. Not the type of character you want making decisions about your future.’
He noted that it has been eight years since speaking to his younger brother Tim.
Roughly two weeks before the Democratic National Convention last month, Vice President Harris announced that she picked the Minnesota governor as her running mate after narrowing it down to him, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly.
Walz, a former school teacher, was first was elected to public office in 2006 and served as a U.S. representative for Minnesota’s 1st congressional district from 2007 through 2019 – when he left to become his state’s governor.
The governor and his wife Gwen share two children, Hope and Gus.
