Does Tim Walz’s family support Trump?

The photo was first posted on X by Charles Herbster, a former candidate for governor in Nebraska who had Trump's endorsement in the 2022 campaign. Herbster's spokesperson, Rod Edwards, said the people in the photo are Walz’s cousins.

"The family in the picture are the descendants of Francis Walz, who was brother to Tim Walz's grandfather," Edwards told Forbes. "They're all Walzes and spouses." The descendants of Francis Walz also confirmed their relationship to Tim Walz in a text message to The Associated Press.

"Shortly after Governor Tim Walz was named the Democrat Party Vice Presidential nominee, our family had a get-together. We had t-shirts made to show support for President Trump and J.D. Vance and took a group picture,” the statement read.

“That photo was shared with friends, and when we were asked for permission to post the picture, we agreed.The picture is real. The shirts are real. We are the Nebraska Walz family and we are related to Gov. Tim Walz, our grandfathers were brothers," they added.

After learning who the people in the picture were, Walz’s sister Sandy said she suspected they might come from “that branch of the family” and added that they “weren’t close” to them and that they “didn’t really know them.”

However, Walz’s distant cousins may not be the only family members of his who support Trump. According to the former president himself, Walz’s older brother, Jeff Walz, is a Trump supporter. Trump has thanked him for endorsing him in Truth Social.

Jeff Walz’s political views first made waves after The New York Post unearthed a series of Facebook posts he made last week denouncing his brother’s politics and warning he is not the “type of character you want making decisions about your future,” saying there were “stories” he could tell.

However, he later told NewsNation that him and his brother had not spoken since their younger brother’s funeral in 2016 and that the stories he referred to in Facebook were from their childhood about Tim getting car sick.

“Nobody wanted to sit with him, because he had car sickness and would always throw up on us, that sort of thing,” Jeff Walz said. He added that there wasn’t anything “hidden” behind the posts and that he didn’t want to influence the general public.

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