Tim Walz’s family shares image supporting Trump for president

Members of Tim Walz’s extended family have shared a photo wearing T-shirts in support of former president Donald Trump.

The image of the eight relatives shows them wearing grammatically incorrect “Walz’s for Trump” shirts, and standing in front of a “Trump 2024” flag that also reads: “Take America back.”

The image was shared by a family friend and posted on X by Charles Herbster, a former Republican candidate for governor in Nebraska, where the Democratic vice presidential nominee grew up.

“Tim Walz’s family back in Nebraska wants you to know something,” Herbster wrote on X.

Trump also shared it on his Truth Social profile.

A spokesperson for Herbster told Newsweek that the people in the image are related to Walz via his great-uncle — his grandfather’s brother. The family reportedly permitted Herbster to share it online.

The photo comes after Walz’s brother, Florida resident Jeff Walz, told NewsNation that he doesn’t plan on making any political endorsement after his Facebook posts critical of Kamala Harris’s running mate came to light.

On Facebook, Jeff Walz wrote that his brother was “not the type of character you want making decisions about your future.”

He added that he “thought long and hard” about publicly backing Trump but told NewsNation that he doesn’t want to be engaged politically.

“It wasn’t my intent, it wasn’t our intent as a family, to put something out there to influence the general public,” he said.

“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,” Jeff Walz added. “I used Facebook, which wasn’t the right platform to do that. But I will say, I don’t