>> please welcome high school senior and allentown school board representative, kimberly.

kimberly: hello. thank you for the warm welcome. how are y'all doing tonight? that's good. i am a high school senior and the student representative for the school board. a little about me, this spring i will graduate with a high school diploma and associate degree thanks to the community college college program. but that is not the only exciting thing happening in my near future. this week i register to vote.

thank you. this election will be my first one. when i go into that voting booth on november 5 for the first time, i will enthusiastically cast my vote for vice president kamala harris and governor tim walz. [applause] for young people like me there is so much at stake in this election. young people know that our most basic freedoms are under attack and on the line. kamala harris understands this and as vice president she has taken decisive action on the issues most important to young people. she helped deliver historic relief to over 5 million americans and will fight to keep

more stress off of students' shoulders. she is working to lower the cost of housing to make sure that we all have a fair chance at becoming homeowners. she has taken on the nra and voted for common sense gun control. [applause] she has taken on the nra and fought for -- oh. [laughter] [applause] i am so sorry for that. she has led the fight to restore our reproductive freedom after donald trump proudly -- [applause] has fought to restore our reproductive freedom after donald trump proudly overturned

roe v. wade. [crowd booing] governor walz also understands us. he lowered the cost of insulin for $35 a month, eliminated junk fees, and parents can take care of their sick families without losing their job. [applause] he has stood up for our fundamental freedoms, including making minnesota the first state to pass a law codifying abortion rights after donald trump's supreme court overturned roe. what exactly has donald trump done for young people? [laughter]

[crowd chanting "lock him up"] he helped overturn roe v. wade, ripping away our right to make decisions about our own body. he has given massive handouts to his rich friend and stuck our generation with the bill. he has -- the gun lobby again and again. if elected again he will unleash the project when he 25 playbook on us which includes banning abortion nationwide and raising the cost by $33,900 for middle class folks. that is why this first vote of mine is so important. the stakes could not be higher end of the choice could not be clearer.

on election day i will probably cast a vote for kamala harris and tim walz. they will take us forward while trump will take us backwards. as the vice president says, we are not going back. [crowd chanting "we're not going back"] so, now, the moment you've all been waiting for, it is my incredible honor to introduce you to the next vice president of the united states of america, governor tim walz. [cheers and applause]

gov. walz: wow. [applause] well, hello pennsylvania. i'm starting to feel like a neighbor from sheetz to wawa and everywhere in between. kimberly, can we all agree that

this generation of kids, just let them lead and we will be fine? you guys back here know you are on tv all the time, right? great. i got the chance to meet the mayor of this great community. thank you, mayor reynolds. i will tell you what else we have to do, to all of the things we will talk about about building a way forward, an opportunity economy. president harris is going to need to have the house of representatives. send congresswoman back to the house of representatives. alright, i have to tell you. someone said, what has it been like the last six weeks? pretty strange. not weird, just pretty strange.

if it weren't enough to be vice president kamala harris' running mate, if that weren't enough, i am here with anthony and liza today. no old white guy could ask for more, trust me. yeah. i also saw, you know that i am always out there spotting talent, can we all agree that there is a second career for liza and anthony here at some point? they are great at what they do, but that type of passion, that type of vision, incredible. all of you, minnesota and pennsylvania have a lot in common. i am quick to point out super bowl rings are not one of them. hey, hey, the vikings are 2-0.

give me this moment. look -- these two states do share a lot of history. it is a history about building this country. american steel workers have long been a path to our economic strength. and our arsenal of democracy. steelworkers have always had america's back. vice president harris and i will have their back. here is the connection. here is the connection, people. i am a geography teacher for 20 years. by the way, thank you to the folks at freedom high school for having us here. [applause] northern minnesota, northern minnesota has some of the richest iron mine deposits in the world. that iron from the northern

minnesota iron range fuels the still -- steel mills and the lehigh valley. together, it was our people that built the tanks that won world war ii and freed the world from nazi oppression. i don't know if you noticed, but nazi tierney, we have folks running as republicans for governor that are proud to refer to themselves as nazi. let's not pretend that there is a gradual difference between the folks who are running here. that they are running together, across this country, we forged the bridges, we built the highways, we built the skyscrapers. [applause]

[crowd chanting "usa"] we are ready, and we are ready to continue to build the future together. [applause] another proud part of our two states' heritage is that we have a long history of being home to puerto rican and latino families who chose to start their lives in our state. [applause] they grew our economy, and every single day their presence in our state and our country make us stronger and better. [applause]

during this hispanic heritage month, vice president and i are celebrating the collective contributions of puerto ricans and the entire latino community. for so many of their families, we recognize a painful anniversary of the landfall of hurricane maria, which continues to have a devastating impact. in march, vice president harris visited san juan and pledged to continue supporting the reconstruction. when she and i are in the white house, you can count on our support. now, to all of you, it is a beautiful fall day in eastern pennsylvania. you could have been anywhere. you have kids at soccer practice.

you are ready for football. you are doing things at home and it is a day off. but not this crew. you chose to come here. [applause] the reason is simple. you love this country, that's why you came. kamala harris understands that. she understands what it means to serve. from her first day as a prosecutor, district attorney, then the attorney general of the state of california, and vice president of the united states, she has had one thing on her mind. she serves the people. her job is to serve and protect those people, whether it was taking on editors and fraudsters trying to cheat people, or

taking on transnational gangs and greedy corporate interests. she was there and never have a -- never hesitated to work with anyone across the aisle for the american people. you can see it in her leadership. you can see in her leadership. i love it when she says it. a mark of leadership isn't who you can push down, it's who you can lift up. of all of the hard things that she's done and the difficult decisions for people, she has done what you all know and what you can feel in this room. hard work can be good work. democracy, as you heard anthony say, is a precious privilege and gift that we need to protect. you can do it with joy, optimism, grace, and happiness. you can do it.

[applause] i am proud to be part of this. she often talks about it. we grew up demographically a long way apart. from oakland, california to small towns in rural nebraska. when you come from a small town and you heard john mellencamp's music playing, i had 24 kids in my graduating class. 12 were cousins. [laughter] what you learn is that your community is your family. you take care of one another. you look out for them and lift them up. we didn't grow up in the same place, but we grew up around the same people. people who work hard for living, understand they have to pay their bills and see their children get ahead. understood, as anthony talks about, the power of a teacher in public education.

servant leadership for the common good. those are the things that animated me and the things that animate, -- animate kamala harris. you have to talk about contrast. not everyone -- [crowd chanting "usa"] not everyone, not everyone is going to see the world the same way, but there is a set of core values that we share. things that animate our service, that lift us up together. i want to tell you something. you know politics, we have been in politics, we have been in

politics. we know that there is no expectation that there will be 100% agreement on things, but there are shared values. a remarkable thing happened. it's pretty obvious to us that donald trump and jd vance do not share our values in any way. look, it's not even about policy , it is about sharing our values. last week, the senator from the state of ohio did something surprising. he told an absolute truth. [laughter] low bar. he told the truth. he admitted to creating stories about people who live in his state. to spread fear and drum up hatred for people in his community.

the republican governor had to write an op-ed saying that none of those things are true about our community. but he says if he can't say these things it's censorship. censorship is when they want to ban books, by the way. that is censorship. what he did has consequences. the consequences where that same republican governor had to send state law enforcement to escort kindergartners into their schools to learn. let's be clear, starting at that point, we can think about and extrapolate from that that they are probably not telling the truth about a lot of things if they are not telling the truth about that. now, there is always motive.

i guess if you're going to be generous, you can say, well, i can't blame them. i can't blame them that they're not telling the truth. they are not telling the truth. [crowd chanting "usa"] let's not forget, folks. i said if you are being generous -- elections have consequences. let's not forget in this we have a little over six weeks to go. it is a binary choice. it is donald trump or kamala harris.

[applause] so, in talking about what we want to get, we are generous people in here. i said i can almost see where you would say i can almost see why donald trump is not telling the truth. if he tells the truth he doesn't get a vote. this is all about, what do you do to get a vote, not what is good for america, what is good for our security. what is not basic human decency? they know that if they tell the truth they don't get votes so they spread the lie. you saw at the debate -- can we keep talking a little about that debate? [applause] i do want to say something about the debate, which people saw. there were people -- some people aren't paying a lot of attention . it is hard to believe, you are engaged in politics. they meant it as a compliment,

but listen. they said, my god. kamala harris did fabulous. she knew the issues. she was wonderful. she lay things out. she says this. i'm so surprised she did that. why would you be surprised? why would you be surprised this incredibly talented, effective, compassionate leader would be compassionately leading? but what you all know is, it is what people don't say and it's what donald never says. his vocabulary, while not usually wide, there is one word he's very good at. i saw that. i see you there. the one word he knows well is "i," "me."

he didn't say anything about how he was going to make life better for the american public. he didn't say anything about how it would impact your family. he didn't even say anything about how it would impact his supporters' families. we're here to make sure the policies we advocate for our good for their families. donald trump -- [applause] donald trump yesterday called us the enemy. i would never call them the enemy. he's an 80-year-old man who's wrong, who's wrong, who has not the interest in this. we want to win this election -- you don't win elections to find yourself in another election. you win an election to improve

people's lives. [applause] so, again, folks, binary choice. donald trump or kamala harris. that's what we've got. you saw on the stage donald trump after nine years also did some in that surprised me. he at least he said he had a concept of a plan for health care. i taught school for a couple decades. [applause] if i would have gotten that excuse, i would have said go back to the drawing board. that's not going to work. their concept of a plan is to get rid of the affordable care act. think about it. the very thing that protects us

from insurance companies denying our care for pre-existing conditions. the very thing that ensures your children can stay on your health care until they are 26. if you don't think that matters, if you don't think that matters, in minnesota, we passed a bill called the alex smith insulin act. the reason it is called that, his mom had to come to the capital after her son got offer insurance at 26 and then needed to ration his insulin. alex smith died because he couldn't get something that cost drug manufacturers less than five dollars to manufacture and he was asked to pay $600 for it. the affordable care act protects us and kamala harris is making sure every single person has access to insulin and the drugs they need. i saw senator vance lay out a

concept of a plan, like this has never been tried before. well, it doesn't make sense that young and healthy people have to have insurance and pay for it because they are not sick. we should just have that for six ck people. you pool the wrist together so all of us can get it. so if you need it, our neighbors are there. just be clear. i know it is a bit of preaching to the choir and i will get to the part to all the things we run for but it is unwarranted no they don't have a plan for you. i cannot stress this enough. this is not a theoretical idea what's happening here. it is very clear. you lived under it in pennsylvania. donald trump talked about this mythical time he was in office. you felt it here. he lost 275,000 jobs in

pennsylvania. under vice president harris, jobs have came back, including manufacturing. people are reinvesting in this great state. you saw $500 million helping two facilities here in the lehigh valley get started, creating jobs. i served in congress before i was governor and donald trump was president. i served when i was in congress and served as governor, so i can tell you what failure looks like. i watched him do it. every week that i was in congress, he was going to give us infrastructure week. infrastructure week. it never happened. joe biden and kamala harris gave us the infrastructure law.

provided millions of dollars to the airport i just landed at that they are able to invest in. so, look, she's laying out a plan, what an opportunity economy looks like. our economy works best when it is fair. we all do better when we all do better. [applause] she gets it. when the economy is fair and not rigged, it not only works better for all of us, that actually works better for the guys that are trying to rig it, for god's sake. here's the deal, she knows what these things are. the fundamental things that we want. we know it is hard so she's working for real solutions. things like homeownership. making sure we are building 3 million more affordable homes, but also helping with the down payment assistance and tax credits to make sure that happens. [applause]

we did it in minnesota and we are seeing more homes and rent went down 4%. where is rent going down? it goes down when you are able to create more housing. also saw that many of you know, it is expensive when you have children. it's expensive. don't we know it? for some of you with little children, it does not get much less expensive as they get older. here's the deal, kamala harris will make it less-expensive. she's doing what we see when states do it and we saw during covid pandemic. she has a child tax credit that would put $6,000 into the hands of parents of the first year. [applause] americans are not asking for that. they are asking to be able to make decisions. they are allowing -- [crowd chanting "usa"]

if they can get a car seat. passing a child tax credit, by passing a child tax credit, you reduce childhood poverty by a third. and you just saw it this week. if you are getting squeezed on prices on things like groceries, we're talking about taking on price gouging. let me tell you what that looks like. the folks who grow our food, the folks who grow our food, farmers, corn is about $4.10 a bushel. it takes about five dollars to breakeven. farmers are not getting rich off

what happening now. the folks who are trying to make the products that we have aren't, but corporate profits have doubled and corporate pay has quadrupled in many cases. look, we are all for a fair economy, for people making it, but you can't rig the economy, making things more expensive for the very people who are making and growing those products. [applause] and just this week, the bi den-harris administration is taking on big pharma because they are still trying to drive up the price of insulin and overcharge because we don't have a national $35 cap on that. kamala harris will make it happen, absolutely. and look, we've been able to do a lot of this in minnesota because what happens when you elect people who care about the

middle class, when you elect people who look like the people who are voting, you get policies that help those very people. whether it is on homeownership, insulin, or a child tax credit. one of the things we did, and i extends to this personally, my father got cancer and i watched my mom was a stay-at-home mom barely be able to stay in her home because of the medical bills that nearly destroyed her. she had to go back and work to pay down medical bills for about a decade. kamala harris is putting in what we did in minnesota, providing relief from that so they can't report you to the credit union and they can't bankrupt you. [applause] and for so many of you, you want to start your own business, she's going to make sure -- we saw the proposal on this -- 10 times larger tax credit so you go on your own and make what you want to of the american dream. look, in a place like this,

we've got an opportunity to pass something called the pro act and sign it into law. the folks who are hollering out here are the folks who understand the purist and the strongest in the thing that built the middle class was the ability to collectively bargain and form a union with your neighbors. i've been told that the -- for decades, i'm a card-carrying union member of the state's teachers union. the last union member on a national ticket, ronald reagan. i promise you i will not lose my way. i will not lose my way. you know what's interesting, too? i was also told i maybe the

poorest person who's ever run on a national ticket. [applause] then, the "wall street journal" wrote a story and said that does not tell the whole story. he's got more money than you think he does. like a bombshell. what is the bombshell? is he hiding assets offshore, a trust fund? oh, no, he has a defined benefit pension plan. our wish, vice president harris and my wish is that every american has a defined benefit pension plan. because at the heart of this, this is about freedom to live the life you want to. to live with dignity, whether it

be in retirement, starting your own business, and to choose the life you want to live, not the government. now, i see some of you, some of the older folks can actually remember. it is like telling young people, there was a time when republicans talked about freedom, they actually meant it. in the long-ago time, it feels like. now, when they talk about freedom, the freedom of government to be able to invade your bedroom. the freedom of government to invade your exam room. the freedom of government to invade your school libraries. look, they spend a lot of damn time trying to ban books. we spent our time in minnesota banning hunger by giving free meals to our kids. [applause] look, i am not asking -- you hear it. i am not asking us all to think

the same. i am not asking for an expectation that we all agree. a successful marriage is 51-49. we're close, we are on the winning side. we know how that works. we respect other people's decisions. that is part of being american. we might not make those same decisions. we might say, i don't know, i am not going with that. you know it is an absolute truth. the golden rule that makes society and communities function and family function is mind your own damn business. [applause] right? you don't need me, you don't need me. you certainly don't need donald trump and jd vance. not just opining about what type of family you should have, but

actually trying to legislate what type of family you should have. so, there are people out there, and you've seen them, you know the names now. no one should know who hadley is, no one should know who amanda is, but those brave women put themselves out there because they went through what donald trump is trying to do to the rest of us. trying to be involved in our reproductive decisions. for my wife and i, it is nobody's damn business but we've talked about it. the reason we are talking about it is because it is so important. we tell the story, my wife and i -- this should be private and personal, but they make it everybody's damn business that we were not able to have children and dealing with infertility. we were lucky enough because i had a union that got me health insurance. we were able to have access to those fertility treatments.

when that daughter was finally born, we named her hope because it is the most powerful word. her and her brother, gus, are our whole world. that is our decision and the things we had to go through. make no mistake, they are not stopping at abortion access. they don't care about the story of another amanda that had to travel from georgia to north carolina, and then could not get the treatment at home, ended up dying. these are people wanting families. it is none of their business, but they keep talking about how profamily they are. spend a little less time trying to ban books and try to ban assault weapons in our schools. [applause] this is about people's personal freedoms.

it is not about the government making these decisions. when vice president harris talks about it, we mean you, not us. you do not need your elected officials to give you a sermon. but, you should expect us to live one. that is not so hard. try to have your words match up, try to do the best you can. when we mean education, too, meaning a ticket to the middle class, not crippling debt for our young people. that is not a giveaway, that is an investment in all of our future. [applause] of all the things out there, they want to talk about government spending, they should because donald trump added more to the national debt than any other president ever. you know how they get in there. they say government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. that's what they do. because they know when they give

tax cuts to the wealthy, then they can go after things that other people really care about, like social security and medicare. then, they can try to claim that the national debt is the fault of social security and medicare. i get it. they don't give a damn. why would they? if you have $1 billion, you don't worry about social security and medicare. we do. my mom does. my 89-year-old mom does because that is how she lives her living extensive. by the way, my dad and her work to their whole lives to get that and i will be damned if we give a tax cut to billionaires -- [applause] i'm going to go back. i'm going to go back to this thing because being in a school -- i was just in georgia last week. brand-new school year, excitement. kids going to school. send them off with a sense of pride. if some of you had send your kids to the first day of school,

that is a core memory. you are so blessed to be in that moment right now. all of us are thinking back to sending a letter once to school with such happiness -- our little ones to school with such happiness. now, we have to worry they will be shot dead in their classroom. i want to be clear about this. you know what the retort is on this. i'm a veteran and a hunter. i'm a gun owner. we found out in the debate, so is the vice president, a gun owner. there you go. because this is not about the second amendment. no one is trying to take your guns. what we are going back to our first response ability is to keep our children safe. that is the priority. [applause] i just -- i struggle with some of this. i struggle with this idea that

after one of these mass shootings, donald trump said people need to know how to get over it. and my opponent said, it is just a fact of life. where do you have to be in your life that is the first stuff that comes out of your mouth? or the quickly as we know -- i know many people mean well -- issuing thoughts and prayers. how about actions and results? [applause] just to be clear. kamala harris and i, we believe in the american people. we believe there's nothing we can't accomplish together. donald trump and jd vance, ah, we just can't figure it out. how the hell did every other country figure it out in the world? how did they all figure it out?

because i don't believe they love their children anymore than us. i believe they love their children just like us, but they have figured out ways to strike a reasonable balance. things like we did in minnesota to have enhanced background checks and red flag laws to get guns out of there, to make a difference. [applause] and i still got my guns to go shoot pheasants in a couple weeks. we need some water. could we get a check on him? you got it? thank you. we've got someone there. we'll make sure -- you ok? getting help. that is what pennsylvanians do, they help their neighbors. that is what it's about.

get some water. ok. it is hot. yeah, thank you. i will go back to this. i appreciate you being here. make sure you are drinking water. take care of the people next to you. that gave me good advice. speed up. i will bring her home quick. kamala harris made it clear. these guys want to instill fear. they want to tell you to get over it, it is a fact of life, this is the way it is. she simply said it does not have to be this way. we can't afford four more years of this. this project 25 -- isn't it funny to watch these guys? never heard of it in my life. never knew. i have been saying this -- 900

pages of it. as a football coach, when you take the time to drop a playbook, you are going to use it. they drew up the playbook. they know. it's what and how they think about this. my opponent, senator vance, had a quote that you read it and here it and gloss over it. but, think about how deeply disturbing this is. he said when they get power, and they will use the project 2025, they need to be ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power. who says ruthless in the exercise of power who is running for a democratically-0 elected position? this is not about power, it's about public service. this is not about power, it's about governing.

so, when they mean ruthless, ruthless means tax cuts for billionaires that drove up our national debt. here's something that's really interesting. i saw when the announcement came, that the work done by joe biden and kamala harris to start taming inflation, to finally see gas prices come down, and start a reduction -- thank you, guys. we saw senator vance lead an audience when he said, well, they reduced interest rates this week. how terrible is that? and he got the crowd booing. who boos for lower interest rates?

venture capitalists, apparently. because people who want to pay a mortgage or want to get student loans care about that. we get it. you know what's out there. come here, we get it. i understand very clearly we are preaching to the choir, but i will go back before i end this to remind you, when we named our daughter hope, we did it because it was the most powerful word of the universe. my wife, the english teacher, the no-nonsense midwestern lutheran. my wife reminds us hope is not a damn plan. we don't hope we will beat donald trump. we don't hope that we will tack le climate change. we don't hope we will and school shootings. we create a plan to do it. [applause]

and the privilege we have, we have an opportunity to turn the page and choose a new generation of leadership. a new way forward. all right, you've been here, it's hot. i'm preaching to the choir, but boy, the choir needs to sing louder than ever. busy job, busy lives, football games to watch. all kinds of things. i often tell people, and they will tell me, look, and you heard anthony say it. he goes, just didn't know, i am not really into politics. my response to that is too damn bad, politics is into you, literally. your health care, your child's education. freedom. all of the things you care

about. look, 45 days until the election. october 21, october 21 is the last day to register in pennsylvania. here's my quick pro tip. do what minnesota did, same-day registration, by the way. here it is. it is all on the line. 45 days not just for the next four years, but the next 40 years. 45 days to bring joy back to our politics. 45 days to say we are not satisfied with putting cracks in the glass ceiling. we are pushing president harris through the glass ceiling. [applause] so, all gas, no brakes.

sleep when you are dead. we do it because we love this country and as the next president of the united states says, when we fight -- >> we win! gov. walz: when we fight -- >> we win! gov. walz: let's go! thank you. ♪ [applause] ♪

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