2024 Election: JD Vance, Tim Walz Wisconsin campaign visits
MILWAUKEE - The Republican and Democratic vice presidential nominees will be in Wisconsin on Monday, Oct. 28 – with just eight days until the election.
Tim Walz visit
Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz made a morning visit in Manitowoc on Monday. Around 1:30 p.m., Walz made a campaign stop in Waukesha. The Harris-Walz campaign indicated the governor's visits was to encourage early voting.
"So someone told me, you know, we have, we have like less than 200 hours left. You can just write it out and sign this. So but we're going to take the message to all parts of the country," Walz said. "And again, it is a privilege to be in this position. Billions of people around the world cannot imagine what it's like. This democracy demands we protect it. It's quite a privilege. You are quite literally living one of a handful of shades that will make the difference of what this country looks like, not just for four years, but the next 40 years."
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Monday's visit was Walz's seventh to Wisconsin since becoming Kamala Harris' running mate.
"This is someone unfit for the office," Walz said of former President Donald Trump. "This is someone who uses terms that dictators use and praises and proud of Xi Jinping ruling China with an iron fist. And he's just so envious of that. That's the antithesis of everything that we believe."
Reaction to Walz visit
WisGOP Chairman Brian Schimming
"Try as he may, Tim Walz cannot explain away or distract voters from the last four years of high inflation, open borders, and conflict overseas. He and Kamala Harris have nothing to offer but a repeat of the failed Biden administration."
JD Vance visit
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance was in Wausau on Monday afternoon before visiting Racine in the evening.
The Trump-Vance campaign indicated Vance would be focusing his remarks on the economy.
"The number one most important dishonesty is that she has nothing to do with what’s been going on in the United States of America for the last 3.5 years," Vance said. "Kamala Harris would make us believe she hasn’t been near Joe Biden, she had nothing to do with Joe Biden."
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The Vance rally came a day after a Trump rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden, where comedian Tony Hinchcliffe said this:
"I don't know if you guys know this, but there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah, I think it's called Puerto Rico."
Vance, as he usually does, took reporter questions.
"I didn’t hear it when it happened. A comedian told a joke and I don’t think that’s newsworthy," he said. "What is news is that Americans cannot afford their groceries. I’m not worried that a joke that a comedian who has no affiliation with Donald Trump’s campaign told that a lot of people are going to wake up and say: 'we’re not going to Donald Trump, now.' We’re going to look past the fact that we can’t afford groceries because somebody made a joke that we don’t like."
Former President Clinton visit
Meanwhile, the Harris-Walz campaign announced that former President Bill Clinton will travel to the Fox Valley and Milwaukee on Thursday, Oct. 31 to mobilize Wisconsinites to vote early.