BRISTOL, Va. – Republican Virginia Senate candidate and Navy Special Ops veteran Hung Cao slammed Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz at a campaign stop in southwest Virginia Friday for telling what he says are “blatant lies” about his military record.
“For 20 years, they let this guy go by with a lie that he deployed to Iraq, which he didn’t, and that he retired as a Command Sergeant Major which he did not. I mean, that’s just blatant lies,” Cao told The Post.
A retired Navy Captain, Cao has spent most of his adult life in uniform, first as student at the United States Naval Academy, and then as a Special Operations Officer serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
Now challenging Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) in the Senate, Cao contended that his own military service has been scrutinized more heavily than the second-term Minnesota governor on the Democratic presidential ticket.