In an effort to better align himself with Vice President Kamala Harris' viewpoint, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz sought on Thursday to retract an earlier statement in which he called for the abolition of the Electoral College, as Fox News reported.

"My position is the campaign's position" on the topic, Walz told ABC News in an interview, following his Tuesday fundraising statement that the Electoral College "needs to go" (which the Harris campaign later clarified was not an official campaign stance).

He said he was attempting to “make sure that everybody understands their vote … matters."

“It’s not the campaign’s position. And the point I’m trying to make is – is that there’s folks that feel every vote must count in every state. And I think some of folks feel that’s not the case,” Walz said in a clip of the interview released Thursday evening.

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“The point I’m saying is: I’m in five states in two days, we’re out there making the case that—the campaign’s position is clear, that that’s not their position.

"Their position and my position is – is to make sure that everybody understands their vote, no matter what state they’re in, matters.”

This is Walz's latest attempt to clarify a statement he made while campaigning or over his lengthy political career before he joined the Harris campaign; he is the Democratic contender for vice president.

The Fallout

Walz has been under fire for making several false claims in the past, including that he carried assault weapons "in war," that he was in China during the 1989 pro-democracy riots in Tiananmen Square, and that his family was born through in vitro fertilization.

Walz reaffirmed that his stance on the matter is in line with the campaign's stance when asked if he and Harris disagree on the question of whether the Electoral College should be repealed.

“I have spoken about it in the past, that she’s been very clear on this. And … my position is the campaign’s position,” he said.

Other Issues

Walz made an effort at explanation after expressing his belief that the winner of presidential elections should be decided by the national popular vote instead of the Electoral College at a closed-door fundraiser at the private residence of California Gov. Gavin Newsom in Sacramento, California, on Tuesday.

“I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go. We need – we need national popular vote, but that’s not the world we live in. So we need to win Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

"We need to be able to go into York, Pennsylvania, win. We need to be in western Wisconsin and win. We need to be in Reno, Nevada, and win,” he said, according to a pool report.

Eliminating the Electoral College is not an official campaign position, according to a Harris campaign official who spoke with CNN on Tuesday.