EAU CLAIRE, Wis. – The Kamala Harris presidential campaign, with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on board as her running mate, swept into the battleground state Wisconsin for a packed outdoor rally with 12,000 supporters. The stump message has become clear: The economic is solid snd improving and a second Trump term would unravel 250 years of American democracy. The rally was outside of town at the Eau Claire Expo Center. For Walz it was his second rally on a national platform since being tapped for vice president. Suddenly he has become a folk hero as a decent Midwesterner and also a skilled politician. At one point when a woman collapsed from heat exhaustion, Walz halted the rally, called for bystanders to make a hole and get her water, and resumed only when she was back on her feet. The Walz speech its echoed stump lines from Tuesday at the Philadelphia rally at which Harris introduced him as her running mate. Walz told the Wisconsin crowd that he knew how to get things dine from his 12 years in. Congress and two terms as Minnesota governr: “I learned how to compromise without compromising my values,” he said. Walz, a military veteran, faulted former President Donald Trump as having “no understanding of service.” Said Walz: “He’s too busy servicing himself — again and again and again.” He warned of Trump’s Project 2025 blueprint for the future. “It will be far worse than it was four years ago.” Walz said, referring Trump’s presidential term that ended in 2021.
Together in noonday sun. Walz and Harris at the Eau Claire Expo Center on their five-state battleground tour. Parking was insufficient at he Eau Claire rally for the 12,000 fans, some of whom walked the better part a mile from their cars in open-grass parking to the outdoor arena.
