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“All I could think of”

“All I could think of”

Self-proclaimed “Knucklehead” Tim Walz revealed the absurd code name he uses to list Vice President Kamala Harris on his phone because he accidentally ignored her call telling him he was her vice president.

The left-wing Minnesota governor told Jimmy Kimmel late Monday that Harris tried to call him in early August to tell him he was her candidate for the Democratic nomination — but he chose not to answer.

“It was an unmarked number, so I guess it's like a car warranty thing,” Walz told Kimmel, laughing in the studio audience.

Walz cringed when he confessed to Jimmy Kimmel about the strange name Kamala Harris had on his phone. Jimmy Kimmel Live/YouTube

He didn't take the life-changing call until he “got a call from a senior advisor” who “said, 'Pick up your damn phone,'” he recalls.

Kimmel asked if Harris was now saved in his phone contacts to avoid further missed calls – with Walz revealing that he was, albeit under a bizarre pseudonym.

When Kimmel pressed Walz about what name she goes by in his contacts, he candidly confessed, “My dry cleaner.”

“They told me to come up with something, and that was all I could think of,” Walz said, shrugging.

Kimmel asked him what would happen if Walz's actual dry cleaner had to tell him his suit was ready.

“I didn’t think that far ahead,” he admitted.

The late-night host joked that Walz should change his dry cleaner's contact to “Madam Vice President.”

Walz said all he could think of at the time was the contact name. Jimmy Kimmel Live/YouTube
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris is greeted by restaurant owner Mashama Bailey in Savannah, Georgia. Richard Burkhart/Savannah Morning News-USA TODAY

Walz's appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” comes less than a week after the Midwest faced Donald Trump's running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, in the vice presidential debate.

He particularly stumbled when he was asked about reports that he had lied about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre in the spring of 1989.

Walz admitted the following day that he “got his details wrong.”

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