Tim Walz boasts about his role as an assistant coach while claiming to have "taken football back" from Republicans.

During a campaign speech in Wisconsin on Friday, Tim Walz declared that his background as an assistant high school football coach enabled him to "reclaim football" from the Republicans.

The Democrat VP candidate declared that they would claim the action they took on a personal matter, which involved taking football back from them, at an indoor venue. The audience responded with applause.

The Harris-Walz campaign has linked the Minnesota governor's candidacy to his time as an assistant coach on the Mankato West High School football team in the 1990s, where he led the team to a state championship in 1999. Prior to his coaching career, Walz taught geography at Mankato West after graduating from college and before being hired as an assistant coach.

He served as the first faculty advisor for Mankato West High School's gay-straight alliance and organized summer educational trips to China for high school students.

Since August 7, when he was named as Harris's running mate, Walz's brief stint as an assistant football coach has been a topic of discussion in the Harris campaign.

Although Walz lacks experience as a high school coach or head coach, he compared his background as a football coach to that of Alabama Republican senator Tommy Tuberville, who coached at four NCAA Power-5 football programs from 1995 to 2016. Tuberville led Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas Tech, and Cincinnati as head coach and even won an SEC Championship with Auburn in 2004.

During a fundraiser event in Boston in early August, Walz stated that one of his roles now is to be the opposite of Tommy Tuberville, demonstrating that football coaches are not the least intelligent individuals.

On Aug. 15, Planet Chronicle Digital conducted an exclusive interview with Tuberville, who responded to Walz's comments.

Tuberville stated that he believes the individual is attempting to enhance his own image by comparing himself to a coach, despite only serving as an assistant coach in high school. If the individual had been successful, he would have been a head coach, according to Tuberville's honest assessment.

"I am unsure of his intentions. He has climbed the ranks through deceit, I believe. If he were to become president of the United States, he would be second in line, although I doubt that will occur. However, considering his actions, it seems unlikely that he is qualified to be a coach."

During his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 21, Walz invited members of Mankato West's 1999 state championship team. In a post on X, Richard Grenell, former U.S. ambassador to Germany, criticized the display.

"He was the Assistant Coach not the Coach," Grenell wrote.

Throughout the campaign, Walz has emphasized his connection with football. In a heated speech on Friday, he argued that he and Harris share family values with him, making them the better choice over Trump in the upcoming election.

Several members of Walz's family, including his own brother, have come out in support of Trump.