way forward. [cheers and applause] and has always been fighting for working people and students like myself. now, governor walz has a heart for service that i admire and tries to emulate, whether in the class rooming, national guard or in the football field or governor, we see tim walz has spent every day trying to make a difference for the american people. [cheers and applause] and let me tell you a few things he has done as governor. signed the largest tax cut in minnesota's history. lowered the costs for the middle-class families. stood up for our fundamental freedoms, just to name a few of

his accomplishments. today is the day, north carolina, early voting starts today and i am proud to have voted. i voted today as you all should vote today! everyone here, we know the path to the white house runs through north carolina. [cheers and applause] everyone here we know has the power to make their voices heard. and turn the page to eliminate the extremists of donald trump and j.d. vance. this election is simple, get ready to elect vice president cares and -- kamala harris and to build a better economy.

and now, it is my great honor to introduce the governor, our next vice president from minnesota, tim walz! [cheers and applause] gov. walz: thank you. [crowd chanting tim] >> good afternoon, durham, we are in the right spot. i don't know about all of you, we are going to get through this election and president harris when we are done with this thing. listening to devon, our future is bright. our future is bright.

[applause] i'm going to admit that i'm partial to former governors. you saw the last challenging weeks, roy cooper is an absolute gem. [applause] and you grow them well down here because those are big shoes to fill. but i tell you what, josh stein is going to do just fine. and i'm giddy, i'm standing on the stage with the 42nd president of the united states. [cheers and applause] this is the comeback kid and knows a little bit something about being an underdog and being underestimated a bit. but i think you would be hard-pressed to find anybody that understands people and

politics better than bill clinton. [cheers and applause] he has been a leader. he understands what it takes to win these campaigns and he gives of his time, because what he understands what you understand, you came here today and president clinton came here today because you believe in the promise that you love this country. that's why you came here today. and i am glad that president clinton and all of you are out here to make the case why we need to elect kamala harris the next president of the united states. i want to say before i get started and i bring this to you and certainly from minnesota, the eyes have been upon all of you. we know folks who lost loved ones and everything they have. communities are still in the

moments of recovery. the biden-harris administration are doing everything they can to get relief to these areas to get it done. [applause] and at times like these it brings up the best of this country and we are going to have a choice to decide to go down the road that donald trump wants to take us down of chaos and division or kamala harris' vision of the united states that cares about each and every one. so we are going everywhere. kamala and i are going everywhere. we are regulars on fox news. donald trump isn't going many places. and he did a little town hall on

unionyvision and he was asked and why are you and j.d. vance making up stories about people in this country at legally and putting them at risk and spreading stories that are untrue. tells you about everything you need to know about this. these lies they are saying, republican officials are telling them to stop it and they are telling them about republican officials hotel them to stop telling lies. there are outsider making life harder for people. and they have names, donald trump and j.d. vance. that is who they are. [cheers and applause] now yesterday was like an

epiphany day. a little debate in new york city and i asked the simplest question, did donald trump lose the 2020 election? pretty simple. every court in the land and every person knows that and i got a smug, tim, we are thinking about the future, something like that. yesterday, they just start saying the quiet stuff outside and he said no, donald trump did not lose the 2020 election. the job we are asking to serve the american public, we don't serve an individual, we serve the constitution and the people of the united states. that's who we serve. j.d. vance made it clear his loyalty is to donald trump and not to the people of this

community or any community across the country. but look, he is never going to be vice president and donald trump is never going to be president. [cheers and applause] you can say no to them and yes to kamala harris and yes to a unified country. a new way forward. [cheers and applause] i love when she talks about this, a single mom and kid who grew up in rural nebraska, middle class folks but one thing we understand, the economy works best when it is fair and focused on the middle class. now, that seems pretty simple to most of us, but not to these guys, so she's got a plan and we are talking about it. i have been talking to the media. we are going to rural pennsylvania and laying out a plan for rural america.

let's talk about some of the things in there. 100 million americans will see a tax cut. i passed the largest tax cut in minnesota history, not for the rich but for the middle class. they are doing just fine and this idea of price gouging and cost of pharmaceuticals. you saw it down here and we saw it in florida, a hurricane is coming and all after sudden airline prices went up. that is not capitalism but price gouging. and for insulin capping it at 35 that is life and death. al ex smith aged out of his patients' insurance at 26 which we need to keep in the a.c.a.,

but alex started rationing his insulin and his mom had to come to the state capital and said we will not leave until we fix this of $35 medicine that costs five bucks to manufacture. now vm very excited, we have a pretty young crowd here, and that's good. [cheers and applause] those of you who look like me and little less gray, you don't think about medicare and social security. the greatest antipoverty programs this country has put forward. and medicare, when you get to be 60, you start paying to

medicare. kamala harris put out a plan especially for rural communities across this count dry, medicare will start paying for home health care so seniors can stay in their home. [cheers and applause]. and whether it is affordability on college or young folks and the rest of us trying to buy a home, building more affordable homes and the down payment keeps us out of the home and doing the tax credit, more people can buy homes across this country. [cheers and applause] those of you who want to be their own boss. $50,000 tax credit to start your own business. [cheers and applause] president clinton rermts this. we had an incredible senator from minnesota we lost in a

plane accident named paul wellstone. and paul wellstone taught us a lot of things but i simplified the economy with a saying he had. he said it's simple, folks, we all do better when we all do better. some folks have a tough go and things get difficult. vice president put out and released agenda, an opportunity for black men. no denying there are historyal barriers that stop people and no reason that home ownership should be different because there is generational wealth. we know that. [cheers and applause] we need to make sure the housing and all that and specifically targeting access to capital for black entrepreneurs to start

their own business is absolute. making sure we are targeting job training so folks can get the skill and capital they need to be their own bosses or work them in the industry that makes you the middle class. so that's an agenda that is out there. and look, there is a disproportionate impact on laws around cannabis have set back folks in those communities. when we in minnesota talk about this and kamala talks about this and legalizing cannabis, get the first shot to make money in those industries. and let's all start saying the

quiet part out of donald trump. j.d. said the voters don't like the racist part of trump. i didn't say it. he said it. when donald trump is bringing about stop and frisk policies, that is harassment that went on the black community and put blackmails into incarceration. we are not going back to those policies. [crowd chanting, we're not going back] you know they want to make false choices. let be clear, civil rights and public safety go hand in hand. but i want to be fair. not everybody thinks the same way we do. and trump and vance have

different did ideas and they know they are doing with project 2025. donald trump is worried about this and said no one associated with project 2025 will be in my administration. every one of them is. he said he didn't know what it is. i never written the forward of somebody's book. they wrote that thing. look, here's what's in it. take away the affordable care act. this is a time now to talk to your neighbors, talk to your relatives, your brother. we all got them. but they will tell you, i don't like his character and some of the things he says, and policies. you jump in, which policies. taking away your. vance tried to explain it. i said you need to go back to

the concept because your idea is terrible. the a.c.a. was transformational because it protects us with preexisting conditions. insurance companies want to charge you premiums and what they like to do is not have to pay out from that. one way is to ensure healthy people and let the sick people get along however you can. that doesn't work. you create the pools together where we have the opportunity to get basic human rights of health care. look donald trump called social security a ponzi scheme. j.d. said it it was impediment to fiscal security. social security doesn't add to our. when my dad died when i was in

high school, it was social security benefits that kep us alive. so, look, we hear this and this is a tough state. when they tell you, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. so social security is the boost. if i would have had $400 million and better position than he is. let's today, i listened to two business interviews. i never met no one in my life that has business ak can you men than donald trump because this guy is trying to convince the entire world because his tariffs are a sales tax on everything we buy that will cost your family

$4,000. don't let him say china will pay for it. not going to happen. not going to happen. he doesn't know business and doesn't know the middle class. and for all of you, i'm going to be generous, we are products of our past. when you grow up in a middle class family, you care about those things. and sitting down in mar-a-lago, i'm going to give you a tax cut, doesn't matter. when my mom looks for that social security, that's how she is going to feed herself and he doesn't give a damn. if any of our relatives or if they tell us that donald trump understand us. that is bullbleep.

you know it. i'm a teacher, i'm sorry about that. you know what we got here. you got it up here. it's about freedom. and i'll leave you with this, the freedom for women to make their own health care decisions. [cheers and applause] the freedom to drink clean water and breathe clean air. i say this as a parent and teacher and send your children not be shot dead in their classrooms. [cheers and applause] i'm taking nothing on this, i'm a veteran and hunter, i own

firearms, kamala harris owns firearms. this might be the first time that both democrats on the ticket are gun owners right now. and might be the first time that the guy on the other side can't pass a background check because he has felonies. [laughter] look, there is another reason stakes in this election are so high. we made it through the first term of trump, we could probably make it through another. [crowd saying no] >> i'm an eternal optimist. i supervised supervising the school lunch room. i worry for the democracy of this country.

so, all things aside, this is truly serious and i say this because someone i respect, general milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and mark milley doesn't have time to minimums -- mince words. he told us that he believes donald trump is fascist to the core. donald trump's power isn't hypothetical and the rest is coming from his mouth. last week, one of trump's closest buddies, mike flynn, trump former national security adviser and contender to be that job again in the white house he was asked if he would lead military tribunals to carry out

executions if trump wins again. mike flynn answered, we have to win first. he followed that up to understand how bat bleep crazy he was. he said the gates of hell, the gates of hell, my hell will be unleashed. this is the guy that donald trump wants to hand the keys to the federal government over to on security. so, look, if there is anybody in your life who really meant when donald trump called for a bloodbath and think he is just talking, you remember 2016 and you rerl the way he talked, this is not that trumy. this is something much more did

he ranged and desperate and what j.d. vance said there are no guardrails around him. republicans in congress won't have the courage to stand up to him. one way to stop it. we need to go vote and make sure none of this ever happens. [cheers and applause] look, hundreds of republicans out with kamala campaigning, who would ever thought we would see bernie sanders, dick cheney and taylor swift on the same ticket? so, look, we got do what americans do on this. that is the language of dictators. that is the language of totalitarianism. we need to go to the polls and

win this thing. here's the deal. i'm going to finish because you are here for the main event. but i want to leave enough time if you don't have one of those stickers on, go vote and get one today. today. [cheers and applause] if you are not registered, you can register to vote today and vote today. if you are going to vote by mail, do that today, too and get it in. follow the instructions carefully because these guys want to throw out ballots. if you need to, i will vote. com/mc will tell you how to fill out your ballot and get it done. go knock doors, go knock doors and make phone calls and tell your brother to quick voting the

other. give a buck or two it gets things like this going. here's the thing, i'm going to turn it over whose accent who might be closer to you, a son of the south, a governor, someone who understood small town. and i will say this, as someone who named his daughter hope, the man from hope who brought us that all the changes that make a difference, please join me in welcoming our 42nd president, bill clinton. [cheers and applause] pres. clinton: thank you.

i have one thing to say off the bat. people who say on the other side that kamala harris is an unknown, dangerous radical -- can you hear me now -- for all these critics that our candidate kamala harris say she is unknown, dangerous radical, whatever, the first decision she made was tim walz. and i think she did pretty good. [cheers and applause] that says a lot about what kind of president she'll be.

first decision donald trump made was j.d. vance. [crowd booing] and has defied countless courts many of whom trump appoint to say no, he didn't lose in 2020. maybe the whole thing was rigid. and he had the gal to say in his debate with tim that he didn't want to destroy the health care bill where there were protections for people with plee existing and trying to make it more sound. that was a whopper. and there are probable 30% of the audience, maybe more, who

have family and certainly friends who would be affected if we got rid of the protections of charging people with preexisting conditions more. that reason alone should be enough to defeat the trump ticket in north carolina and america. [applause] so i really like tim walz. spent his whole life serving his family and country and made a positive difference in every role he played. he left a rewarding as a career as a teacher and coach and told me his football team just won against its arch rival and he went home and checked on it in

the middle of the election. he was in the national guard for 24 years. he represented a rural congressional district that elected one other democrat in more than a century and they trusted him. and after he flipped it blue, he proved that you can compromise without compromising your values to make the system work again. worked across the aisle on the farm bill and veterans' issues. aren't you sick of all this bad mouthing that dominates american politics today? he proves it doesn't have to be this way. look at his record as governor. and did unbelievable things for

working families and especially those and tax cuts and paid leave. and i could sit here for another hour listening to him talk because it reminds me of home. let's cut to the chase. i don't have any more elections and i'm too old. i'm only two months younger than donald trump. [laughter] but i will not spend 30 minutes swaying back and forth