Vice President Kamala Harris' new running mate has recently faced charges of having been dishonest about his military record.

Yet rather than address the allegations when questioned by reporters, Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz chose to flee.

Video shows Walz walking away

According to Breitbart, the incident played out on Wednesday as the governor and Harris walked across an airport tarmac in Wisconsin.

REPORTER: Your response to allegation of stolen valor?

WALZ: *ignores*

REPORTER: Your response to allegation of stolen valor!?

WALZ: *runs away* pic.twitter.com/el3sPGDYuM

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 7, 2024

A video clip posted to social media by the Republican National Committee shows Walz walking away as a reporter repeatedly asked for his "response to allegations of stolen valor."

Critics have pointed to how Walz's official biography states that following "24 years in the Army National Guard, Command Sergeant Major Walz retired from the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion in 2005."

Former soldiers say Walz left the military to avoid Iraq

Yet that claim was contradicted by Lt. Col. Kristen Augé, who serves in the Minnesota National Guard’s State Public Affairs Office.

Augé told Breitbart that Walz "retired as a master sergeant in 2005 for benefit purposes because he did not complete additional coursework at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy."

Meanwhile the website pointed out that in 2018, retired Army Command Sergeant Majors Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr wrote a letter to the West Central Tribune which accused Walz of quitting the National Guard in May of 2005 so he could avoid deploying to Iraq.

"His excuse to other leaders was that he needed to retire in order to run for Congress. Which is false, according to a Department of Defense Directive, he could have run and requested permission from the Secretary of Defense before entering active duty; as many reservists have," they wrote.

Vance accuses Walz of "stolen valor"

Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance alluded to that claim following a campaign event in Michigan Thursday when he accused Walz of engaging in "stolen valor."

"As a marine who served his country in uniform when the United States Marine Corps, when the United States of America asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it," Fox News quoted Vance as telling reporters.

"I did what they asked me to do it, and I did it honorably. When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, you know what he did?" the GOP's vice presidential nominee continued.

"He dropped out of the army and allowed his unit to go without him, a fact that he's been criticized for aggressively by a lot of the people that he served with," Vance declared.