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Harris, Walz to campaign in Wisconsin, Michigan – DW – 08/07/2024
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US presidential hopeful Kamala Harris and her newly-announced running mate Tim Walz will campaign in the key battleground states of Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday.
The pair will stop in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and Detroit, Michigan, a day after they kicked off their joint campaign in Pennsylvania.
The two states are part of the “Blue Wall” that Democrats will need to win to elect Harris to the White House.
Wisconsin and Michigan will also be an early test for the Midwestern credentials of Walz, who served as the governor of nearby Minnesota.
Trump calls Walz a ‘shocking pick’
Earlier on Wednesday, Republican nominee Donald Trump slammed Harris and Walz in an interview on the breakfast TV show “Fox & Friends.”
Trump called Walz a “shocking pick” and sought to paint him as a radical progressive sidekick for Harris.
“He’s a smarter version of her,” Trump said.
Trump also said he was keen to debate Harris, after he said he would skip a scheduled debate on broadcaster ABC with the Democratic nominee after US President Joe Biden pulled out of the race.
Trump has instead called for a debate with Harris on the conservative-friendly Fox network with a live audience.
“I hear she’s sort of a nasty person but not a good, good debater. But we’ll see because we’ll be debating her, I guess in the pretty near future. It’s going to be announced fairly soon but we’ll be debating her,” Trump said.
Trump previously said he would prefer to debate Harris on Fox, which is perceived as being friendlier to him, but also said that “every network loves me very much right now.”
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Wisconsin hosts rallies for Democrat, Republican presidential tickets
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The Harris and Walz team held a huge outdoor rally in Eau Claire, drawing crowds from Wisconsin and neighboring Minnesota – a day after Governor Walz joined Harris on the ticket as her running mate.
Associated Press
It was a rock moment for Tim Walz as he walked into the national spotlight – less than 48 after hours joining the race
He left no doubt with these voters on why he’s on the Democratic ticket.
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“Just like Wisconsin, over in Minnesota, we believed in the second amendment,” said Walz, a 24, year veteran of the Army National Guard. “But we also believe in common sense gun violence laws.”
Pat Meyer and Lynn Lundeberg drove 90 miles to see their governor as the VP pick.
Meyer sees the two-term governor as a guy with common sense.
“If you’re ever around Tim, he knows he has to give sometimes on issues, he may have to negotiate and arrive at some conclusion but in general he’s pretty happy about the whole thing,” said Meyer. “He’s not a curmudgeon.”
Watch: Wisconsin hosts rallies for Democrat, Republican presidential tickets
Wisconsin hosts rallies for Democrat, Republican presidential tickets
Christie Reynolds feels more energy with the new Democratic ticket. She made the trip from Waupaca for one reason.
“I want to see a woman president. I’ve waited since Geraldine Ferraro, since 3rd grade and I’m really excited,” said Reynolds. “I didn’t realize that couldn’t happen then but I think it can happen now!”
Associated Press
She’s not alone – thousands waited in the summer sun to see Harris and Walz.
“We will fight continue to fight for affordable housing, affordable health care, affordable child care, and paid leave,” said Harris. “And understand in this fight – as Tim Walz says, we are joyful warriors.”
Nine out of 10 voters say they don’t know much about Tim Walz – but with campaign rallies like this one, and 90 days to go until Election Day, the race has been reset and it looks like it will be another close one in Wisconsin.
A new Marquette Law School poll shows that Kamala Harris has a slight edge over Donald Trump in Wisconsin.
Among likely voters, Harris has 46 percent support, while Trump has 45 percent. Third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy has 8 percent.
In the U.S. Senate race, incumbent Democrat Tammy Baldwin has a lead over Republican Eric Hovde, 51 percent to 45 percent among likely voters.
Two independent candidates have two points each.
Associated Press
Trump’s running mate, Senator JD Vance, is shadowing the Harris campaign on their blitz across the country. During his speech Wednesday, he focused on immigration and blamed Vice President Harris for inflation.
Alex Brandon/AP
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‘Wanted to check out my future plane’: Vance tries to confront Harris at Wisconsin airport
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Democrats think that drinking Mountain Dew to be “racist,” according to JD Vance.
Diet Mountain Dew somehow found itself in the middle of the U.S. presidential race this week.
Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential candidate, on Wednesday attempted to confront Vice President Kamala Harris after the two converged on the same Wisconsin airport at the same time.
“I just wanted to check out my future plane,” Vance, R-Ohio, told reporters traveling with him after walking towards Air Force Two. “But I also wanted to go say hello to the Vice President and ask her …why does she refuse to answer questions from the media?”
Vance and Harris were both in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, for dueling events.
Harris, and her newly minted running mate Gov. Tim Walz, held an outdoor rally where hundreds of supporters lined up for hours to see the Democratic duo. Vance spoke at Wollard International, an aviation equipment manufacturer, to an intimate crowd, where he also took questions.
More: How Tim Walz compares with JD Vance and his path to become Kamala Harris’ running mate
Although he walked towards Air Force Two, Vance said he did not speak or see Harris. Harris’ motorcade drove away as Vance walked over.
He took a jab at Harris, who is currently on a campaign swing to key battleground states after announcing Walz as her vice presidential pick, for “just giving another scripted speech.”
“I don’t think the Vice President waved at me as she drove away, but I’m glad to have done it,” Vance said.
More: A soda sip-off or an election? Tim Walz, JD Vance fight over the ‘Mountain Dew Belt’
Both Vance and Harris referenced the tarmac two-step on social media.
Vance on X, formerly Twitter, posted a photo of himself and members of his team walking away from Air Force Two. He captioned it: “This Entourage reboot is going to be awesome.”
The Harris campaign posted a video of Harris greeting young girls on the tarmac before panning to Vance’s plane taxiing on the tarmac.
The campaign used a viral audio clip of Dance Mom’s Abby Lee Miller saying: “And now I want to sit back and relax, and enjoy my evening. When all of a sudden, I hear this agitating, grating voice.” The sound is often used to depict an annoying interruption.
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Nicole Byer Recalls “Scary” Experience With Racist Hecklers at a Comedy Show: “Blew My Mind”
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Comedian Nicole Byer recalled a “scary” incident with a racist hecklers at a past show in Wisconsin.
“I did shows in Appleton, Wisconsin, which I talk about in my special, and I really hated it there,” Byer said during an appearance on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Aug. 6 episode of his Dinner’s on Me podcast. “The vibes fucking sucked. Bad vibes”
She continued, “During my show, I had a white host, a Black feature, and the crowds were so unruly, and at one point, my Black featurer was on stage…. A guy in the crowd was like, ‘Smile, we can’t see you.’ I was like, ‘What the fuck?’”
Byer said she then “walked out on the floor” and asked a server, “You’re not going to say anything?” and the employee responded, “What?”
“I was like, ‘Oh my God,’” the Nailed It! host said. After the event concluded, she refused to do meet-and-greets, despite the fact they had been sold with the tickets. “I told my agent, ‘I’m just not meeting these people. I’m sure that there’s nice people in this crowd, but overall garbage. Bad people, bad vibes.’ I couldn’t believe that man said that.”
The comedian went on to say the worst part of the experience was that there were “no repercussions.”
“It just blew my mind,” she said, adding that it made the event feel “scary.” She later learned from a friend about Appleton’s history as a “sundown town,” a term which refers to cities that enforced anti-Black segregation even after segregationist laws were overturned.
The experience and subsequent revelation left her with the conviction that “I will never go back to Appleton, Wisconsin.”
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