GREEN BAY, Wis. — Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential hopeful, Tim Walz, hit the road across Wisconsin on Monday as he made several stops in Eau Claire and Green Bay.
The latest visits come as his fellow Democratic governors from Wisconsin and Michigan started a swing state bus tour this week.
Three Midwestern governors took the stage in Green Bay at the KI Convention Center to kick off what the campaign is calling a “Driving Forward” Blue Wall Bus Tour that will make a three-day swing through Wisconsin as part of a bigger three-state blitz.
“This year, the road to the Super Bowl, the road to control the Senate, and the road to the White House goes right through the NFC North,” Gov. Walz told the crowd shortly after taking the stage.
As Monday marked a little more than 20 days before Election Day, Walz spoke directly to Wisconsin voters about what he believes is at stake in November.
“To your neighbors, your friends, hell, our family members, if they say, ‘I don’t really like Trump, but I like his policies,’ which policies were those? When he destroyed American manufacturing? When he shipped jobs to China,” Walz asked supporters. “Hell, he doesn’t even manufacture his Bibles here. He outsources that to China.”
“If you’re like me, I’m sick and tired of this guy, ready to turn the page on him, and we can do that by making Kamala Harris the President of the United States,” he added.
Walz was joined on stage and praised by fellow Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, who will continue their bus tour through the key battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania this week.
“She had the good sense to pick a Midwestern former teacher turned governor. And I know my friend Tim Walz is going to be an incredible, incredible vice president,” Evers said. “That’s because governors get s*** done.”
“They are just like us. They embody the values of us Midwesterners,” Whitmer added. “The things that we teach our kids here — tell the truth, work hard, get s*** done.”
Before arriving in Green Bay in the evening, Walz highlighted the critical role young voters will play in the upcoming election during a stop at The Cabin, a coffeehouse on the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire campus. Walz also visited Cedar & Sage Grill House on the Oneida Reservation in Green Bay, where he briefly spoke about Indigenous People’s Day and Vice President Harris’ commitment to Native communities.
“I am preaching to the choir, but our recital is in 22 days people, and we need to start singing, we need to start singing,” Walz said.
Republicans, however, used the visits to criticize Walz over tax policies and the 2020 civil unrest in Minneapolis.
"While middle-class families in Wisconsin demand change, Democrats have decided to place their hopes in a Vikings fan with a propensity for lies and exaggerations to explain away Kamala Harris’ lackluster record. Even more disappointing than Tim Walz’s thick ledger of exaggerations and blatant lies, however, is his long history of far-left extremism,” WisGOP Chairman Brian Schimming said in a statement. “From dragging his feet during the riots in Minneapolis to pushing tax hikes amid record inflation, Walz is emblematic of everything wrong in the Democratic Party.”
Monday’s pair of stops are the first of several as the Harris-Walz ticket plans to keep crisscrossing the state this week.
On Thursday, Vice President Harris is scheduled to swing through Milwaukee, La Crosse and Green Bay.