if you to think they are lying to you on one subject, you may be concerned that they are lying to you to or pulling their punches on another. the second is a broader concern that runs beyond america, that runs internationally for those of you who are international scholars. and that is -- [cheers and applause] >> hello to a community who has pulled together, figured out how to live without -- [inaudible] power, drinkable water, loss of a job and schools closed for a month. [applause] [cheers and applause] and our hearts go out to the families who have lost loved ones, homes and businesses. [applause]

and we have welcomed and found relief from amazing helpers who have traveled here from all over our compassionate united states of america just to help. [cheers and applause] i am danny mcclinton,, owner of the devastated -- [inaudible] station. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [cheers and applause] talk about pulling together? for ten years we have competed with the orange peel. and tonight i stand here on their stage proud if that tim

walz, our next vice president -- [cheers and applause] is making a second appearance here in, asheville. [cheers and applause] and if everybody remembers his last visit -- [inaudible conversations] was ten days before the storm at salvage station. our city in western north carolina may not look the same, but the open hearts of you are people -- of our people are as generous as ever before. [cheers and applause] as our local communities have worked together, i look at it and wish republicans,

independents could work together with democrats before our country splits into a form of government that could be more dangerous than helene. [applause] if you have already voted, thank you. [cheers and applause] if you haven't, figure it out. [laughter] i'm not a rocket scientist, but i figured out where to vote last week. as for salvage station's future, i promise you that we'll navigate this and find land again -- [cheers and applause]

so our team can continue to the share the magic they shared with the country for the past ten years. [applause] if -- now, for the reason why we're here tonight. tim walz decided to come back to to asheville and, in my opinion, this shows how great of a person he is. and he really is genuine. [cheers and applause] what a good candidate he is, and to honor us with his presence is mind blowing. he is a governor, a veteran, a former teacher, a coach -- [cheers and applause] and, like a lot of us, a father.

so at this time let's give him a big, warm welcome, tim walz. [cheers and applause] >> wow. if. [cheers and applause] >> well, hello, asheville. again! [cheers and applause] help me give it up one more time for american aquariums, for these guys -- [cheers and applause] it's great to be back and it's great to see asheville back. [cheers and applause]

i want to start by thanking danny mcclinton. his wife, katie, can't be here tonight, but the whole salvage station crew. some of you who were out there on that night, my first visit to asheville i got the chance to visit that historic venue in september. if and the whole feel of it, i got to sit in that green room in that little trailer, some of you know that back there. just the whole vibe. i'll never forget we talk about this, we've done a lot of events but certain ones stand out and there was drizzle in the air that night. started to pour a little bit, but everybody stuck around. [cheers and applause] they all a stuck around. probably a bit of foreshadowing for us, told the us exactly what was happening because in the wake of the devastation the of hurricane helene, the community did the the exact same thing. they stuck around and pulled

together. [cheers and applause] first thing you did, you supported each other and you supported your neighbors. after the storm passed, salvage station was totally underwater. but thankfully, everybody at salvage station, the team was safe and accounted for, and i just heard tonight even the stray cats that were on the place were saved. [cheers and applause] ..

i want to thank the folks on this campaign who turned from campaigning to lending a hand. i want to think of them. i want to thank the mayor for leadership under pressure and grace under pressure. [cheering] is a country want your resiliency your kindness showed through it was inspiring. our pledge to you kamala and i will not rest until you get all the support to rebuild this community. [cheering] [applause] i will get into a little bit more but i want to speak to those folks around here that help with the small businesses here and across his country. to get what you need to get up and running and make sure your business thrives. [cheering] i got it opportunity are almost

ready for because of all the hard work you been down here i want to make a pitch for some of the folks across the country watching tonight. if you have never visited this american treasure of astral, book your tickets now and come down. this is a treasure. the food is fantastic we heard it tonight, the music is electric. the creativity of the arch district is stop second to none. and to the folks out there in america, these small businesses each or support. come down here and spend money. come down here and spend money. you demonstrated the spirit of asheville is a spirit of this country. tough, tenacious, never going down without a fight.

that's the reason on a beautiful wednesday night you are right here tonight for that simple reason the simple and beautiful reason, you believe in the promise of america and love this country. [cheering] thank you. we are prepared to fight to protect this democracy. to make sure things get done. i don't know if any of your paying close attention but we are about six days from an election here, folks. i am saying we are going to win this thing. we don't just hope we are going to win we plan and execute till when i am done it's no longer weeks away, i'm not even going

to talk days away we are about 150 hours away. look, early voting and buncombe county has already started but how many of you voted? that warms the teacher heart in me. you know the assignment part you know the assignment. look, you know folks are still making up their mind. i know you've heard that she might be family, friends, brothers we all know. they might tell you this look, i can't really stand trump personally or group the stuff he did for that is where you could ask and say you mean the convictions and it cheating people out of things, you could say that. then they go on and say this that i liked his economy. like what he did for us. now it looked, it happens to all of us. time gets a little bit fuzzy

they might be remembering things a little bit not the way they were. our country has lost unemployment was up because dobbs bought. [inaudible] dear member, so good under donald trump but we were fighting to get toilet paper. so look if you are a billionaire like you on most, you did get something. you got a tax cut. the rest of us got squats out of the deal. no trump thing he wants elon to be his economies are. now the thing is, elon does not have much of a filter. when you are the richest man on the planet literally you pretty much say whatever you want too. at least his being honest but were probably going to have to crash the economy to save it. this is what he said this week.

americans will have to face and i quote, some hardships. i ask all of you what is the richest man on the planet man know about hardship? not one thing. not one thing. at least they are telling the quite tough out loud. donald trump called himself the king of debt and ran up the largest amount of debt in four years of any president in american history. mostly giving tax cuts to the wealthy. there fixes that have the wealthy pay their share of their fix and elon sub $120 in spending. nephew don't know what the national budget is, these numbers get really big. all the discretionary spending all the discretionary spending read to choose as up to $1.6 trillion. elon is a crappy at math as donald is or, or they're going to start cutting into things that are not discretionary that

means social security, medicare, education, healthcare. look, jd vance was very clear he said yes we will go after social security. donald called upon site scheme jd vance social security was on thing standing in between us and fiscal sanity. not tax cuts to billionaires, not all of that but your parents and mine social security. speaker johnson, release or being helpful in tongues what they are going to do but he said and i quote you there will be no obamacare of trump is elected. that's weird because a couple weeks ago i was in a debate senator vance was standing right here and said donald trump is the champion of daca. donald trump loves daca and i responded, why did he run on getting rid of it? why do you cite an executive order to get rid of it why did

he sign on to a loss want to get rid of it and why did he try 60 times to overturn is only the courage of john mccain who said no to that vote. [cheering] know the old saying if their lips are moving you know what they're saying on this. trump is going to say he said i got a way we can pay for this. i can tell you how we can cut for these and get billionaires and tax cut. donald magical mouth, no one else agree with him no experts agree with have no communistic ruth m. donald trump was at the terraces at the chinese will pay for it. just like mexico paid for the wall. but, in this case this one is much more devastating to us it would add about 20% on everything you by causing each family about $4000. that's not us who sang he would do that we know trump will try to get rid of it. just to be clear it's important

for the undecided voters of those folks out there who do not mcdonald's personality but loves his proposals, let them know his big proposal on daca is to go back member get a concept of a plan. jd tried to explain i said to him you should go back to the concept because your explanation makes it worse. what he said was is the whole thing about daca was expanding care to everyone. insurance companies get to decide who they want to cover. even donald failed business acumen would tell you this. insurance companies make money by picking and insuring the healthiest people. then make it really hard to make a claim but how many of you filled out the tons of paperwork. if claim and you're not authorized? like mike appendix exploited that should be covered by the like i don't know maybe not. that might be something. we want to go back and take that away from you.

we are not going back. we are not going back. now, with the subdominant of the people around him they have figured something out. donald trump spent the last 10 years spreading fear. i've taught school for quite a few years i supervise the lunch room. teachers in her know what i'm talking about. you do know this fear is a short-term motivator for people. it does not change behaviors. what he is not out there thinking or one minute about how to make your life better but let's be very clear if you think donald trump was ever thought for a moment about anybody but himself? look i'm telling you all of this and you're like i already have enough anxiety. marty stressed out preacher on the news that my advice for you is get off the pullout coaster. this is all about getting people

to vote. when you have anxiety about anything the surest antidote is action on this. in this case you want to know how to get over that? go vote for kamala harris go vote. it works. it works. those of you who went and voted it felt good to do it. last wednesday i had the privilege of my lifetime i got to go vote in the got to be accompanied by my recently turned 18-year-old son who got to cast his vote. look here's the thing. gus, he is the guy. look, what a privilege. we get the opportunity to not only turn the page on donald trump but a new age of leadership pretty salt last

night. kamala harris is offering a new way forward. be clear on that. somebody said kamala harris minute closing arguments know she just told you what a president is going to look like and that was just the start. that was just the start. she'd laid out a to-do list. a to do list she's going to do as president. right at the top, lowering costs for everyone. that's when to be her priority every day in the white house. not tax cuts for billionaires. not retribution. not revenge, not getting rid of daca. none of those she's talking the first several federal ban 37 states have it but the first ever federal ban on price gouging. two quick examples of price gouging when the hurricane hit, folks are trying get air for other places like florida and

elsewhere, airline prices went through the roof. that's not capitalism or free market that's price gouging. i will tell you this grocery prices going up during that time on grocery prices were lower, my farmers were making four bucks a bushel per corn. grocery prices are up, my farmers are making four bucks a bushel for corn. some is not growing the corn and not doing the work is taking money out of the middle that's coming out of your pocket. that's what a price gouging law does. what, it is time to make our tax system fair. 100 million americans squarely in the middle class will receive a tax cut in her proposals. on the little ones, the most effective antipoverty tax cut that we do as a child tax credit, $6000 in a child's first year of life.

extend the cap on and some $35 for seniors common to everybody. quicker price gouging was and $35 bottle of insulin before pass at lund minnesota, selling for up to $800. a custom $5 to manufacture it. that's called price gouging look cap at 35 everyone will get life-saving insulin. that's how it works. relearning a new term sandwich generation that is in here. for the young people here, trust me on this you do not want to spend much time thinking about medicare when you turn 60 that's what you think about most the time is medicare and social security. i provides dignity. kamala harris segment expanding medicare the biggest thing we have neglected for years as one medicare to pay for in-home care so you do not have to spend on all of your money.

our seniors to pay in a work the whole life should build to live in their home and have dignity and get that karen extend it but i think some manure are sent are you kidding me? medicare right now to stop every vision and hearing? no but it will after you let kamala harris get this thing done. might nearly 90-year-old mom got her hearing it's a while back and for some of you your parents are a lot more fun when they can hear, trust me on this. i've seen it, i've seen it. the ability to buy a home for those of us who note this is the generation of input at a disadvantage. i sat on the stage of jd vance of the reason we can't buy home as immigrants are buying them. i'm thinking to myself where are they getting the money to buy it? you're the real reason speculators buying them up and jacking up the prices that's what they do.

we make sure that doesn't happen. we mentioned to credit on the front and for $25000 payment to get into their homes. i want to give a proper shout out to the small businesses. we have a round of applause for hosting this right here? look to get started get grant credit upfront 50000-dollar tax with the average small business cost about $40000 to get off the ground. you achieve the american dream we don't have a conflict of a plan we have a plan. [applause] can i just say it, this is a good question to ask because donald trump's plan is going to ed troyer is the national debt.

they ask how are you going to pay for this? a starting point we have donald trump pay his taxes for the first time. you tell me, intent of the last 15 years he is not paid federal tax base houses every day how rich she is. how does he think we pay for our police and our teachers and our firefighters and our roads, and a water treatment plants? that is what we do together we pay our taxes. they need to be fair and those of the top can pay their fair share of the middle class can thrive because i'll tell you what, we've sang a minister about the condo we all do better we all do better. now look, look, winston churchill had a saying about this. this government the americans have is the worst form of government except for every other one that's been devised.

it takes work. no one said it would be perfect. but look, in this country we said two functional parties some here even a member time republican party added much of this they're part of the conversation. when i talked up freedom, they mention it. donald trump on the other hand, when he talks about freedom, freedom to be in your exam room. freedom to be in your bedroom. freedom to be in her library telling you the reader should be able to watch. his talk about censorship is because what they want to do. you heard me says i'll continue to say it. life works better if people mind their own business. leave us alone. leave us alone. donald, a while back down for an unexplained 11 times in a 30 minute interview where he was

not weird. if someone is explaining what they are not weird? i wouldn't say those things it is weird to obsess about other people's bedrooms. just trust me on that that's none of your business or to be obsessed with telling women how to control their own bodies. weird. look, look, you sought at the convention. if i let them lay claim to the american flag is a put donald trump's picture on it. they are not going to do that. [cheering] went kamala, and i in all of you talk about freedom we mean the freedom for you to make your own health care decision. that is what we need. and for our little ones to be free to go to school's been shot dead in the classrooms.

[cheering] and look, don't allow them to shape this argument. i'd no guns. i'm a veteran, i'm a hunter, i'm a gun owner. kamala is a gun owner. we know we've always upheld the second amendment. but we also know upholding our first responsibility to keep our kids safe. you can do both, you can do both. i will say both names the democratic ticket or gun owners. prepping company could not pass the background check to buy one. if your cousins in a word about this is let them know for one spend a minute before we go to talk to the men in this room.

grateful to see you all here. think about in this moment picture those women you love in your life your wife, partner, daughter, aunt, mother, neighbor, everybody else. we think about the selection, the way they are saying and we need to see it is their lives are at stake in the selection. that's a hyperbole that's happening all across the country. when donald trump appointed the supreme court justices who lied in their confirmation hearing about upholding roe versus wade? it's precedent will do anything about it. they overturned it donald trump brags about it. he is glad to have fewer rights and their mothers and their ande grandmothers have. twenty states included north carolina howard trump abortion ban he calls it a beautiful thing. who's with that description looks like beautiful thing got wrenching stories all across this country.

miscarriages important survivors of rape and incest, being forced to carry those to term. fertility clinics turning couples with the door and i've talked about this this is personal for all of us. if you have not gone through infertility you wait for the phone calls time after time the strain it puts on your family put outside what because my wife and i had access to insurance and because we had fertility treatments in minnesota, we were able to have our beautiful daughter hope. freedom and fighting for that freedom means if anyone is going to deny that right to have their family to someone else. when we win this election and we take the house of representatives when we do that,

the build to sign reproductive freedom president harris will sign into law. look, kamala says that we are not going back. there's a reason we're not going back to were not going back to a timely mimic women's rights are taken away from them. now i'm back to the times have donald trump give tax cut the billionaires were not going back to when he ignored signs and put this country at risk during covid. were not going back on the progress we made looking at things like climate change. we are not going back on the pledge to protect our children from gun violence. we are not going back. so i am here, i am here in these last 150 hours to respectfully

on behalf of kamala harris and myself to ask you for your vote. [cheering] here is my pledge to you. we are in the white house, we will respect the oath we swear to defend the constitution. we will keep some other promises to you too. i will treat as a sacred trust. that harris/administration we will be a president and a vice president. [inaudible] [cheering] because the plans of the proposals we are putting in place will help them and their families too. we've got six days to go. six days to go. we are joyful.

we are optimistic. we have the momentum. but we take nothing for granted. so you know what time it is. you know what time it is. we are down to the end. it is a tight game two minutes left on the clock. we are moving the ball down the field. we got the best quarterback in kamala harris. we got the right team and all of us. you may be thinking you are getting tired but i have said it, there is plenty of time to sleep in weird dead. now is not the time. now is not the time. so we are marching.

we are doing a yard at a time. a phone call at a time. a door knock at a time and one vote at a time. i north carolina one or two votes per precinct will be enough to turn the selection. not just here but across the country. as you're dragging people to the polls, you're getting them out there is someone will invariably say this because they've done it to them. they told them our politics do not matter. they've told them both sides of the same breed they told them to be depressed to try to do this. they passed laws to make it hard to vote. they do not want us to go express that. you will have people say i'm sick of it, i'm not that into politics. your responses to bad politics is into you. politics is into you. you can early vote up until

november 2 part you can register, find out if you're voting in person i will vote.com/nc find your polling site. we've got to go find those things but here's the deal, folks. went in your lifetime or anyone's life and we have one or 50 hours impact not just the next four years but the next 40 years and beyond. when do we get an opportunity on this incredible people running and ruling themselves. not just one meant collectively in a democracy. [cheering] it is a privilege to do it. we are in that moment. as i said that site think all this and i think it's a north carolina kind of thing, you're sitting on your porch, in your rocking chair and old gray hair. some of you are there like me and some will be there.

someday for you young folks still be young ones around your knee and they will ask what did you do what happened during 2024 when you protected the constitution and protected this democracy? your answer is going to be everything i could hurt everything i could. so here is the deal we believe in the promise of america as kamala says, when we fight for the next 60 days when we vote. let's go north carolina. [cheering] [cheering] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ less than a week until election day both the democratic and republican campaigns are focusing on battleground states. tomorrow we will see the four major candidates kamala harris, tim walz, donald trump and jd vance holding an event in nevada, pennsylvania, arizona, north carolina as they try to garner support from swing state voters. here in north carolina the hilt newspaper at latest average a pole in the state finds donald trump with a slight lead.

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