From the August 7, 2024, edition of CNN's CNN News Central

TOM FOREMAN (CNN CORRESPONDENT): Let's start with the initial claim there, the notion that somehow what Tim Walz did was dodge going into service. He was in the Guard for 24 years. JD Vance was in the Marines for four years. Yes. While he was in there, he filed papers to run for Congress in February of 2005. He retired from his Guard unit that May. The orders to deploy did not come until two months after that.

So the claim that he was somehow dodging going over here after 24 years of service … there’s just no evidence to back that up right now.