Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says he regrets spending time focusing on then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio.

“I will kick myself that I got sucked in. I bet you I spent three or four days, maybe longer, not clowning, but just hammering them over the eating dogs and cats because it was so ridiculous,” Walz, the former vice presidential nominee for the Democratic Party, said during a Wednesday podcast with Molly Jong-Fast.

“And I took that hook, line, and sinker. We were talking about immigration at a critical part of the campaign. And it was hurtful. And it pissed me off. And I was standing there to defend people. And it didn’t do a damn bit of good electorally.”

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