WAYNE — With 22 days left until the general election, Gwen Walz, Minnesota’s first lady and wife of the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz, rallied the troops, Monday.
About 150 volunteers roared and applauded in agreement as Walz bashed Republican candidate Donald Trump and urged the group to continue to work hard to support the Kamala Harris campaign.
Walz visited the Wayne campaign office on the kick-off of the New Way Forward Tour campaign through Pennsylvania and even brought along family made cookies for the campaign workers.
Trump spoke a few miles away in Oaks, later that evening.
“People are fed up with Donald Trump,” Walz told the attentive audience. “We are going to send him a message.
“Mind your own business.”
Walz talked of reproductive rights.
“He may even try to rewrite history on his record of attacking our reproductive freedom,” she said. “Well, I’m a longtime teacher.
“And in my classroom, we believe in facts. So here are a few: Donald Trump overturned Roe — that’s a fact.
“If he wins, he will ban abortion nationwide, including in Pennsylvania — that’s a fact. He won’t stop there: he’ll go after birth control, emergency care, even IVF — that’s a fact.”
The country is split.
“For nine long years, Trump has been trying to divide us — pitting neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend,” Walz said. “In fact, I hear Trump is also here in the Collar Counties today, peddling his same old gripes and grievances.”
Walz told the volunteers that winning Pennsylvania is important, maybe even vital, to the campaign.
“You are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders,” she said. “We are in this together.
“That’s how we win — together.”
With about three weeks to Election Day on Nov. 5, Walz pushed the workers to battle hard, make calls and knock doors.
“We will sleep when we are dead,” she said. “We can take a nap after the election.”
“We are going to have to fight for it. When we fight we win.”
Volunteer and retired teacher, Ms. Feman, from Paoli, was working on her first campaign and said that the atmosphere was electric.
“I’m around so many committed people, young and old, coming from far and wide, who will do anything needed.”
Feman said she supports a “united, United States.”
Swarthmore resident David Pollack is pleased to help “get us over the finish line.”
Barbara Cable was thrilled with Walz’s message.
“She is very motivated, energized and positive,” she said, about Walz. “There is a lot of work to do, we can’t stop and take a break until we have victory in our hands.
“I won’t be satisfied until Kamala is inaugurated.”
Walz was joined at the stop by Lori Shapiro, the First Lady of Pennsylvania, and U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon.
Kamala Harris is making a stop in Philadelphia Wednesday and has scheduled a live CNN-moderated town hall discussion Oct. 23 in Delaware County.
Source: Berkshire mont