election day. this is about an hour. >> please welcome the next vice president and second lady of the united states. [cheers and applause]

>> good afternoon, wisconsin. it is great to be with mayor kane -- where is mayor kenney? great to be with you right over there. the secretary. most of all, over 1200 of our neighbors and friends. [cheers and applause] and what a joy it is to return

to the shores lake superior. [cheers and applause] you know, we share a lot, minnesota and wisconsin, right? one of the things is that beautiful lakeshore. that reminds me of how much we have in common and other things that we share, more so than these cold winters, right? we share the same values. [cheers and applause] i want you to know, if you need a hand, i will come and shovel your driveway, and i bet you would come shovel mine. power we would give each other's kids rides to hockey practice or band practice or whatever we needed, right? [cheers and applause]

yes. because here is what we do -- we look out for each other. and these values form the foundation of our lives, of our lives together, and that is how vice president harris and my husband tim were raised. they both come from middle-class communities. , the was raised by a working mom in oakland, california, and tim grew up in a small town in rural nebraska. both learned the value of hard work and common good, just like all of you. and you know what? that's how i was raised, too. [cheers and applause] the community i was raised in was twice the size of tim's.

and you know what? my sisters and i were raised in this small little town in southwestern minnesota by two schoolteachers, and guess what? my sisters are here with me today. [cheers and applause] and guess what? they are teachers! [cheers and applause] and guess what again? my sister-in-law is from wisconsin. and guess what? she's here today. [cheers and applause] and guess what? >> what! gwen: she's a teacher!

our parents taught us the value of a hard days work, how to balance a budget, and most of all, how to lend a helping hand to our neighbors in need and accept help from our neighbors when we needed it, too. all the things that someone like donald trump -- [crowd booing] who grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth just never understand. so i'm excited today because you are going to get to hear from tim -- [cheers and applause] but first, i'm going to just tell you a few things about us and about why we are here. i would like to just tell you how we met. is that all right? [cheers and applause]

we were both teaching in the same school district in nebraska, and he was teaching -- very good, history, social studies, geography. and you know what i was teaching? english. wow, you might not need this lesson, but we even shared a classroom. our school was pretty short on resources and space, so they put a divider right down the middle of that old fire room and tim was on one side and i was on the other, and i have to tell you that his class was a little louder than mine, but every day, i knew that there was excitement and enthusiasm in that classroom, and what tim and i understood about each other, and the first thing that i think we loved about each other was that we both shared the values of

education -- yes. [cheers and applause] and we both understood that every single student matters. [cheers and applause] every day, i watched tim coaching and encouraging his students, and he tried to help them all succeed. you see, tim cannot help but see the potential in everyone, and i think that is remarkable. [cheers and applause] and he wants everyone to have a chance to reach it, and that is a commitment that i know he and vice president harris share. they believe in everyone, the

potential and opportunity for everyone. that's big. that's big. [cheers and applause] so i'm excited to see the future that they want to build where everyone is included and where everyone who works hard has a chance to succeed. [cheers and applause] i'm an english teacher, and i know that words matter, so when we say everyone, we mean everyone. we do not mean some people, or we would say some people, but we mean -- >> everyone. gwen: yes, and also, we don't

mean only those who vote for us. that's right. [cheers and applause] what we mean is all of us. yes. [cheers and applause] that is important, and that is hard, but it is important. we have a chance in this election to elect a president and a vice president for all americans, for everyone -- yes -- and we reject -- we reject that group who is only in it for themselves. that's not us. [cheers and applause] that is an important view that people who know the value of neighbors, like we are.

that is an important view we have to share. you probably saw that debate the other night. yeah, that was great. and what kamala harris told us we have to do is we have to turn the page, right? yeah, because we have something really exciting had it in our direction. i kind of liked it when she did this -- turn the page. do you like that? so i need you to practice with me, what are we going to do? we are going to turn the page. do it again -- we are going to turn the page. and we are going to -- >> from the page. gwen: i am going to be watching you because when i see wisconsin , and i'm watching tv because it is a pretty important place and minnesota help to practice with this, you just show me this -- page, right? you know what else that looks like?

bye-bye. bye-bye, donald trump. [cheers and applause] we are turning the page! 52 days, and we are turning the page. bye-bye, donald trump. that's right. my father always said to me growing up, gwen, you have to do the work that is in front of you. and when i was growing up, i thought that meant the dishes or my schoolwork, but what that actually meant is what i have come to realize, which is empowering, that all of us with our own eyes must see the work that is in front of us and we must find that for ourselves and community and state and country and region, and that is important because we have to bring everything we have, especially for the next 52 days.

we have to bring our time and talent and gifts and vision, and we have to decide how we can best be of service, so i am asking you, even though my mom is not here -- she's a retired teacher, as i have already told you -- i am asking you, if you will, with tim and kamala and doug, me, but your friends, and your neighbors, please do the work that is in front of us. [cheers and applause] yes. yes, thank you. we are going to volunteer, right? and we are going to bring friends to volunteer. yes, we are. and we are going to door knock, and we are going to have really hard conversations with undecided neighbors, and we are still going to have those conversations with people who have unfortunate signs in their yard.

yes, we are because that is what we have to do. because we have turned the page. yes, we have. and we are choosing a new way forward. [cheers and applause] so, wisconsin, i am going to give you every minute i possibly can over the next 52 days. i'm asking for the same from you because here is what our soon to be president of the united states, kamala harris, says. when we fight -- >> we win. gwen: when we fight -- >> we win. gwen: when we fight -- >> we win! gwen: we are ready to fight, i think. yeah. now it's my privilege to

introduce you to someone very special. she is a shining example of what leadership looks like in our community. i just 20 years old, she found a way to make a difference, championing women or lgbtq+ communities are helping our town rebuild after a storm or working to bring preschool and beyond to wisconsin. [applause] she is always using her voice to lift up others, and you know what? she's going to be a teacher. [cheers and applause] i cannot wait because she is going to be fantastic. will you help me welcome

isabella? [cheers and applause] issabella: thank you so much for the introduction, and what an honor to be introduced by someone who values public schools, something near and dear to my heart, and our next second lady. hello, superior. my name is issabella lyste, and i am a student. i am so proud to be here today to introduce governor tim walz. i grew up about 100 miles south of here. [cheers and applause] we understand the importance of community and working together to help our neighbors. in 2018, when a storm devastated my town, i helped raise over

$10,000 to restore a local park. [cheers and applause] we added a shelter, got a brand-new bench, and planted trees to give our community a new place to come together. governor walz understands those values, too, because like me and so many other people in this room, he grew up in a small town working on his family's farm. when he was 17 years old, he enlisted in the army national guard, serving 24 years. [cheers and applause] yes. he went to college on the g.i. bill, and governor walz has been a high school teacher, a football coach, a congressman, and a governor, and threw it all, he has put community first. [cheers and applause] as governor, he helped middle-class families by lowering health care costs, cracking down on junk fees, and

signing the largest tax cut in state history. [cheers and applause] when governor walz signed a bill giving universal free breakfast and lunch to students in minnesota -- [cheers and applause] it motivated me to advocate, too. alongside vice president harris, governor walz will be a strong partner as they deliver for working families and help move our country forward. [cheers and applause] they will fight to lower costs and protect our fundamental freedoms, including my right to choose if and when to start a family. [cheers and applause] donald trump and jd vance, will always side with their one million are donors and big corporations. their project 2025 agenda will

bring our country backward. [crowd booing] when i graduate, i hope to follow in governor walz's footsteps and become a teacher right here in wisconsin. [cheers and applause] but donald trump and jd vance's project 2025 would put that dream at risk by eliminating the department of education. [crowd booing] project 2025 would ban abortion nationwide and punish women who need reproductive health care. [crowd booing] this year will be my first time voting in a presidential election, and i -- [cheers and applause] and i could not be more excited to cast my vote for vice president harris and governor tim walz. [cheers and applause]

and now, it is my honor to introduce our next vice president of the united states, governor tim walz. [cheers and applause] governor walz: wow. wow. hello neighbors. no place is better on an early fall day than to be in northern wisconsin-minnesota. hey, issabella, thank you. i think all of us know, we win this election, we elect kamala harris, madam president, but

with people like issabella, our future is bright. thank you for the work you are doing. thank you to all the local election officials who are here. we have a lot of work to do before election day, but we are pretty lucky, we have some incredible folks to elect in this part of the country. we are blessed with two of the best united states senators you can find with tammy baldwin and amy klobuchar. [cheers and applause] incredible. and there's a lot of races, but one i am pretty familiar with, a congressional race in minnesota. i have the privilege of being prepped with one of the most effective legislators i have ever worked with. jen schulz is running. -- i have the privilege of being friends with one of the most effective legislators i have

ever worked with. this is one of those deals where you get an incredibly accomplished public servant who is in it for the right reasons, and we make sure we get kamala harris a majority in the house of representatives. [cheers and applause] and i will just give you two reasons why the current occupant should not be there -- denying the election of 2020 should disqualify you from service. [cheers and applause] and when those 4000 jobs in replacing the ridge, do not come crawling over here when you voted against it and tell us you had something to do with it. [applause] go get jen elected and so many others. every time this happens, when gwen walz speaks, people always say, why isn't she running.

i did notice, when she practiced speeches, she said my husband tim, but i thought you said my wonderful husband tim. she's an english teacher. words matter. three of my wonderful daughters are here with me today. are you seeing a pattern here? two incredible senators who happen to be women, jen schulz will make a wonderful member of congress. gwen walz is great. here is my life hack -- surround yourselves with smart women and you will do just fine. [cheers and applause] that includes fellow cat owner taylor swift, too, my friends. [cheers and applause]

it's really great to have all of these women help us beat the smallest man in the world, donald trump. [cheers and applause] two each and every one of you, look, it is true. there's anywhere else you could be. you have busy lives, you have things going on. this is a saturday in northern wisconsin. it's nice outside. [laughter] these are rare, and you treasure them, but it speaks volumes about you. i look out here, i see old friends, new friends, but it is something really special as free people to gather with our community to self determine how we want our country to be. [cheers and applause]

you chose to be here, and the incredible people on the wisconsin coordinated campaign, all the local folks who do this, you did that. you came here for this moment because of what kamala harris always said, a beautiful, simple reason -- you love this country, so thank you. >> usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! governor walz: and what is so beautiful about democracy is we get to make a choice and like 61 million other people in most of the rest of the world, we got to see tuesday night that's a pretty simple choice. [cheers and applause] there was one person on that stage that had the poise,

dignity, the foresight, and compassion to be president of the united states, and that is kamala harris. [cheers and applause] she commanded that room. she's tough. she's tested. she's ready, and i can tell you, i am so incredibly proud of her, but i tell people this -- so make it up to me and said, hey, the vice president did an incredible job. i'm so surprised. "why were you surprised?" you need to ask yourself why you were surprised. executor, county attorney, united states senator, and vice president of the united states. [cheers and applause] i would do a self evaluation of why you are surprised. there might be a couple of

reasons. none of it had to do with competency and being ready to leave. it was clear she was going to lead that thing from the handshake. from the handshake. [cheers and applause] you saw it in there. you can't bring yourself to look at the vice president of the united states, you cannot bring yourself to shake hands in the middle, this is how we do things in this country, and when you lose, you shake the hand of the person who beat you and help them become successful. [cheers and applause] i say that because in 52 days, he is going to have to do exactly that. [cheers and applause] maybe i like the other side, i talked to vice president harris.

we like her communicating, but we did not talk about this. i got asked right after the debate, do you think she should do another one? my advice was i have not talked to her, but yes, every day we should do another one. because what you saw is what we all knew, donald trump is exactly what we knew him to be. his true colors were on full display. not his makeup, but his character. his character. and i said this -- you saw that caricature of an old man shaking his head at clouds and telling kids to get off his lawn. that is what he is, obsessed with the past, and this is what is unforgivable -- rooting against the american people. rooting against the country. [cheers and applause] everywhere he goes, terrible city, terrible place, terrible state -- all these things. always as the governor of pennsylvania says, everywhere he

goes, he shits on america. because he does not believe in us. he had the opportunity to answer a couple of simple questions. first, he refused to say he wanted the free and democratic people of ukraine to win the war. here is what i will say to wisconsin, thank you for the deep dignity that i know exist here. yesterday, i was with a group of folks,, and i got a chance to meet a couple of people. anastasia and anton and their young son. they were forced to flee ukraine during the war, and they were taken in by the people of wisconsin. you know what the first thing they did was?

they started small business, a bakery that's growing jobs and -- creating jobs and growing the economy. [cheers and applause] when i told them that vice president harris had no problem answering that and i have no problem answering that, and people who love this democracy and understand we stand with our friends, a very simple question, ukraine must win that war and push the aggressors back. [cheers and applause] he also had another easy one. he also refused to answer if you would veto a national abortion ban. you know why. here's the deal -- he does not trust women, and they sure the hell don't trust him. [cheers and applause]

for all of you, i would have never imagined in 2024, we are here, but it is a privilege because all of you are here to fight this fight. this is the most fundamental thing since the founding of this country, for all the blood that has been shed over the years to protect this democracy. one of the most fundamental things. he refused to say he lost a fair, square election. don't allow us to become the frog in the slowly boiling water and pretend that that is in any way normal or ok. every single day, he lost the election, he is trying to lie about it, and he will do so again. [cheers and applause] but he says all of you are just ai, so he is not too worried about it. your votes won't be a i, i guarantee it.

but with all the bluster, all the misinformation, all the inability to stand on the core values that make america the great country it is, he also had something to say, what he would do to make your lives better. nothing. health care plan -- remember? came down the golden escalator nine years ago, got asked about obamacare. "i'll rip it out. i will have a better plan on day one." nine years ago. he apparently has been doing something. he has the concepts of a plan. [laughter] i said this, if i got that excuse from one of my students, i would have left them out of the room for that. "no, no, try better. try better." [cheers and applause] for him, it is a sound bite. it's nothing. for you, it's the pre-existing condition you had when your

insurance company would not pay the bill and it means now you can get treated. you can take your children in. you cannot be discriminated against. we can get checkups on time and prevent illnesses down the road. the aca has provided millions of healthier, better life for them and their children. for him, it's a talking point. let us be honest -- he does not know what is in the aca. he has never read it. he never looked at it. he does not know. not once did he ever worry that he would have to pay a medical bill. they are out of touch with who we are. kamala harris, who grew up in that middle class family around a kitchen table where you have to decide how to pay the bills if you are a single mom, she understands that. donald trump has no plan for you. his plan is for what is good for donald trump, period. [cheers and applause] look, this is important. this is important and you all

know it because we all deal with it -- friends, neighbors, family. "i like donald trump. i don't really like how he swears and gets convicted of felonies and found liable for assaulting women. i don't really like that." "good, i am glad you don't like that." but then i always go, "i like his proposals." which one? taking your health care? tax cuts for billionaires? and i say this, if you are a billionaire and that's all you care about, he may be your guy, but if you are a working-class person, a middle-class person, a community member, i cannot find much of their. the thing is, you don't have to look very far. he's not giving much detail, but they made it easy for us, they printed 900-plus pages in project 2025.

they said the quiet part out loud before they got elected. yeah, they did. no one wants that agenda. no one who is not a billionaire wants that agenda. no one wants government in your bedrooms and your exam rooms. no one wants to make drugs more expensive. no one wants to avoid dealing with climate change for making cuts to make things more affordable for those in the middle. these guys on the others, you know what they stand for. here's what i'm most proud of -- i'm proud that donald trump spend his time crying, lying, "oh, they did me wrong. it's difficult to be born with millions of dollars. it's difficult to have the supreme court so you can do what you want with no consequence" --

apparently that is difficult for him. kamala harris spent no time during that. she talked about the future. [cheers and applause] and again, i don't know if my wife would appreciate that i'm going there, another pun, she prosecuted the case really well. but this is hard, important work. this is difficult work. this will shape generations to come, but hard work can be good work and hard work can be joyful work, and that is what she did. she brought joy back to the idea of politics, an idea that it could be better. bigger than just one man. [cheers and applause] in her entire professional career, she has had one client,

the people. [cheers and applause] the people. and she says it, in her entire career as attorney general, senator, vice president, she never asked democrat or republican. she asked, "are you ok" and "what can we do to make things better?" we were on this bus trip, getting on these buses and going into red areas. let's be honest -- she knows this better than anybody. there was a bunch of our supporters with signs, just like all of you, really excited and really great t-shirts, by the way, upfront here. on the other with those who were not our supporters. it's easy to tell, they are all in the same hat. that group of independent thinkers on the other of the street. she turned to me and said, "never forget, we fight just as

hard for folks on this side of the street as folks on the side of the street. -- side of the street." [cheers and applause] this is why talking to your neighbors, as nguyen said, this is why the work of the next 52 days -- as nguyen -- as gwen said. if this were about having the best ideas or the best candidate, i think we would win most elections. but that's not what happens. it's about hard work, about going out and talking to people. the things we are talking about in this room will help folks who are buying those flags, wearing that red hat, and believing that donald trump is the best. what you know is health care for their family, good public schools, infrastructure investments, the right to control your own body. all of those things -- if you talk to neighbors, you need to

remind the he is against all that. as a prosecutor, she had to take on creditors, people trying to cheat you, career criminals, big corporate interests who think they are above the law. it was easier the other night because all of those things were wrapped into one person. [laughter] but the fight was there. the idea that we lay out a plan, an opportunity economy plan, one she knows because she grew up in the middle class. she knows it is not enough to get by. we have both been there. people want to get ahead and thrive, and in this country, the richest country in the world, there is no reason that the gap between the ceo's and the folks who are doing the work, the labor that is doing the work -- [cheers and applause]

the most basic democracy has the ability to collectively bargain to get something -- look, they are doing just fine, but you don't need $400 million when people are just trying to get by. we are finally starting to see because of the work of kamala harris and the work of our friends, brothers, and sisters, we are starting to see wages begin to keep pace and go up. i said this, she wants to make homes more affordable because you know why? she watched her mom scrimp and save for years to buy a house. i watch my mom worry after my dad died with the medical bills there, will i be able to keep my house? for those guys, a wall street guy, a six-time bankruptcy got, a redshirt capitalist guy -- those are just commodities to

move around and sell and trade. if it means foreclosing on somebody, do that if it makes you money, who cares? but those are our neighbors. kamala harris understands that home is the foundation of families and communities. that's why she wants to make it easier through downpayments, working with local folks who met it easier to get those homes built and permitted. [cheers and applause] when she talked about prices and price gouging, it was fascinating to me to watch how fast donald trump and his running mate jumped on to defend price gaucher's -- gougers. 37 states already have laws against that. the thing that gets me is we are trying to keep prices lower. farmers are working in till dusk and getting 390 a bushel of corn

and 10 bucks for soybeans? they are not getting rich. they did not grow the food. they did not process it at the factory where they were did that. somebody pulling out a chunk of money out there that has nothing to do with getting that to you. that is what she is talking about. if you are jacking up the price illegally, you should stop that. [cheers and applause] and one of the american dreams is to choose your path, and none of those paths should be closed off. if you have an idea for a small business, it should be easier to start that business. that's why she proposed increasing the tax credit so you can get up and off the ground, making sure you have health care so that does not drive you out of a small business, and making sure your neighbors are being paid enough that they can spend money at your small business and everybody thrives. [cheers and applause] look, this ability to be able to

collectively bargain and organize -- let's not forget our history, america. the labor movement starts in wisconsin. [cheers and applause] the idea of investing back to the middle class, the idea of growing from the inside out, the idea that everybody could have a place in this -- we have a minnesota saying from one of our senators, who says we all do better when we all do better. [cheers and applause] it's not that complicated. it's not that complicated, but these guys figure out a way, we want more and more and more and more -- i would say this about donald trump -- he was very clear on one thing -- he told the billionaires he was going to give them a tax cut, he did it.

project 2025 promises he will do it again and bigger, so let's be very clear, when he does that, it cuts out opportunities for the rest of us. when they do that, it undermines our ability to do the things we know need to be done. to be clear, donald trump talks about infrastructure. kamala harris got it done. [cheers and applause] by the way, that bridge but by all of us, that is someone trying to figure out how not to pay his taxes so he does not have to pay to fix it. all of us understand that infrastructure is what connects us. [cheers and applause] i will tell you, you saw this idea about freedom. that's really great, it's not

just the song the vice president comes out to, although it is really cool when she does that, but you saw it in chicago, this idea of freedom, the idea of what it means. freedom to live your life the way you choose to live your life. some of us are old enough to remember republicans used to talk like that, too. they used to talk about freedom. they would have never turned their back on an ally. they would have never decided that they need to be in your business, but we know now they want the freedom to be in your dr.'s office. by the way, project 2025, they have got a national pregnancy coordinator that tracks all pregnancies. [crowd booing] that seemed like too crazy for george orwell to put in his book, but they did it. they did it. they want to be in your school library. i don't know about you, but you heard issabella talk about it,

in minnesota, while those guys are figuring out how to ban books, we are banishing hunger from our schools. [cheers and applause] and again, i want to go back to those old-school republicans, the folks that need to come over and realize this is the agenda for them. one of the things that used to always talk about his personal freedom, personal spots ability. the responsibility part is out because donald trump has never taken responsibility for a single thing, but the personal choices and personal freedoms, we respect it. we may not agree with it, we may not agree with that -- look, i get it. some of you choose the packers over the vikings. that's your choice. that's your choice. [laughter] [crowd booing] oh, give it to me. give me my moment. give me my moment. we don't have any super bowl rings. just give me the moment. but look, we may not agree and we may differ, but you have heard me say it.

i know you've got it here, too. the golden rule, mind your own dam business -- mind your own damn business. [cheers and applause] think about -- how is that not appealing to republicans? how is that not an appealing thing? they want to make every damn decision. think about what they are saying in project 2025? we have heard people tell their story. nobody wants to have to tell their personal story about their family. we have to tell the stories because these guys warily are obsessed with our bedrooms all the time. all the time. and for us, it was a years-long

struggle of infertility, and we are blessed that we had access to those treatments, and you better bet, if it was not you, you know somebody who has gone through it. it's hell. you are waiting for the call, you get the call, it does not work, you are back at it, and then there's the two of you, and all you want to do is have that trial, so you bet in our family, when we finally had that little girl born, we named her hope for a very particular reason. [cheers and applause] she, like all of you -- and i say this -- she and doug are gwe n and i's whole world. we are talking about it because these guys are trying to make it more difficult to do that if not impossible. be very clear -- they are not stopping with a national abortion ban. they are not stopping with getting rid of fertility

clinics. they are talking about getting rid of contraception. these are personal health care decisions. so think about it. kamala harris makes it pretty clear -- i would go out to all of your neighbors and make the case on this -- do you want jd vance deciding about your wife and daughter's health? >> no! governor walz: or would you rather leave it to them and their doctor? that is what freedom looks like. [cheers and applause] you and people should make the decisions, not politicians about your personal health care. it is as simple as that. we are known for our schools, known for our education. we know that is a ticket to the middle class. should not be a ticket to death. be clear about it, investing in

education, in our teachers, in the future is another one of those when we all do better, we all do better. it's that simple. [cheers and applause] we are getting closer on this 52 days, and it is a binary choice. i know, it boggles my mind, too, that there are two people who are going to be president -- one of them is going to be president, one of them is not. there are two people, one of them is going to be vice president, one of them is not. project 2025 and the questions and the discussion we are having today is where that difference lies because that program -- and i say this for my mother who survived after my dad died on social security to provide her benefits and who counts on that check right now, kamala harris has pledged and we pledge to

protect social security in america. [cheers and applause] this one is the difference -- people see the world from where they stand. if you stand in a middle-class living room, if you stand in a union factory job, if you stand in scrubs as a nurse helping, that is a way to see the world. that is a way to see the world. if you stand or more likely sat in mar-a-lago or in a venture capitalist high-rise on wall street, why would you care if they social security check shows up? you don't care about it because you don't need it, so you are looking for the tax cut. i tell you who does need it -- my mom. she pays for food with her social security check, and it's the best antipoverty program ever devised in this country. [cheers and applause]

so here's the deal -- i say this -- i know very clearly -- you might not have thought so, but i know it -- i am preaching to the crier -- to the choir. you came, stood in line, with your neighbors because you know the choice is so stark and you know the impact we can make. you came to do it with joy and you want to get it done, but here's the deal -- kamala harris did her job tuesday night. we need to do our job for the next 52 days. [cheers and applause] i will go to my grave not understanding why, but i know it is a fact, this is going to be a margin of error rates, and it's going to be won in a handful of states. one of them is the state of wisconsin. [cheers and applause] so let me put on that coach whistle and get that hat back on

. this thing is going to be a battle for the next 52 days. it's going to be won in rooms just like this. it's going to be won door to door, call to call, five dollar donation, trying to have that hard conversation in the produce aisle with the person you saw at the grocery store and ask, have you voted yet, and are you concerned about social security? are you concerned about climate change? are you concerned about your democracy? are you concerned about middle-class? if you are -- are you concerned about those things? if you are, ask that person to sign up. wisconsin starts next week in voting. [cheers and applause] so, for all of you, i know it is hard. as i said, it's hard to understand, but that is our country. these guys have spent the last decade telling us our system is

broken. they spent the last decade figuring out how to make it harder for people to vote. they spent the last decade trying to make people pessimistic and believe it does not matter to come to rallies like this or vote or call your neighbor. you know why? because they cannot win when more people vote because the people understand. [cheers and applause] so that choice of voter suppression versus voter engagement, we choose the joyful path. we choose to take our chances with explaining what we stand for, standing on our record, letting everybody vote, counting every vote fairly, and then accepting the results of that. that is what we choose. [cheers and applause] so here we go, folks. every vote is going to matter. every precinct. one more vote can make a

difference in what happens to the next generation of our country, and that is what we got to do. [cheers and applause] i, for one, am honored to be on this ticket. i am honored to stand with you in this fight. i'm honored to know -- and i keep saying this -- we have some philosophies -- my god, we are tough people. when we started settling, people started going across the country. some people kept going until they ended in a place where it's really warm and i have palm trees. not our people. we stopped here because we are tough and resilient, and we understand that when we stick together, we can get this done, so for all of you here, all gas, no brake.

52 days to get the work done. sleep when you are dead. let's give it all, and think about it -- that 53rd morning when you wake up, we get to say, "congratulations, madam president!" [cheers and applause] [capti