North Carolina GOP apologizes to Tim Kaine over tweet

As several media outlets have reported, the pin is actually a symbol for families with a member serving in the military.

“[Tim Kaine] wears a Honduras flag pin on his jacket but no American flag”, the state party tweeted during his speech.

The North Carolina Republican Party published a tweet on Wednesday criticizing vice presidential candidate Sen. On Thursday, Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party, apologized to Kaine via Facebook.

The Honduras flag is described by Wikipedia as “a horizontal triband of blue (top and bottom) and white with five blue five-pointed stars arranged in an X pattern centered on the white band”. BullCityVa told @NCGOP to “Check yourself before you wreck yourself”, while Jim Cook offered the truism that “the time for correcting a mistake is before tweeting it. The GOP could use more fact-checkers and less tweeters”.

Ben Amey, a reporter with WNYT in Albany, New York, caught the mistake. Kaine has spoken in the past of his son’s service, and has been particularly critical of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s criticism of the military.

Kaine’s son, Nat, graduated from George Washington University ROTC and is now an active-duty marine, according to Bustle. Kaine’s son, and all United States military, past and present, who fight for our freedom.

We demand accountability from our elected officials and our government.