This week, Mrs. Gwen Walz rallied voters for Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz in the suburbs of Milwaukee. Joined by local leaders, including state Senate candidate Jodi Habush Sinykin, Mrs. Walz spoke on the stark contrast between Vice President Harris and Governor Walz, who are fighting for a new way forward that protects reproductive freedoms, strengthens democracy, and brings down everyday costs, and Donald Trump and JD Vance’s extreme Project 2025 agenda which will ban abortion nationwide and raise taxes for middle-class families by nearly $4,000 per year.
On the airwaves:
Reporter: “Yesterday, Minnesota’s first lady Gwen Walz made stops in Milwaukee suburbs to support the Harris-Walz ticket. She talked to supporters at campaign offices in Ozaukee and Waukesha County. Both areas are heavily targeted by Democrats as they hope to pick up votes in counties that traditionally elect Republicans.”
Gwen Walz: “They are the underdogs in this race but I know that we can win. And I know why we can win – because we have you.”
Reporter: “Walz was joined by Democratic candidate Jodi Habush Sinykin, who’s running for the 8th state Senate district. She faces Republican Senator Duey Stroebel. Since 1992, the district has been represented by a Republican, but that could change with new voting maps adopted earlier this year that make the district slightly more competitive for Democrats.”
Reporter: “First Lady of Minnesota Gwen Walz was in the Milwaukee suburbs yesterday to campaign on behalf of the Harris-Walz ticket. Gwen Walz spoke to a couple dozen supporters at the Ozaukee Democratic Party headquarters in Grafton before traveling to Waukesha later in the afternoon. She said when talking to voters, asking them a question: Which side is fighting for you?”
Gwen Walz: “Because the answer is very clear: Kamala and Tim have spent their entire careers fighting for middle class families, like the ones they grew up in.”
Reporter: “Both campaigns for president are focusing on our battleground state, Wisconsin. This is video from Waukesha in the last hour, that’s where Gwen Walz, the wife of Democratic [vice] presidential nominee Tim Walz, made a stop at the Waukesha County Democratic Party office on Wisconsin Avenue.”
Gwen Walz: “You. Right here in Waukesha County, we have you. You are knocking doors. Making calls. Registering voters. And, winning votes one neighbor at a time.”
Reporter: “Gwen Walz’s stop in Waukesha county is part of her tour of the WOW counties, which also included Ozaukee and Washington counties, all three of which are traditional Republican strongholds.”
Reporter: “Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz made a campaign stop in Waukesha. She wants voters to consider this question.”
Gwen Walz: “Who is fighting for you? Because the answer is very clear: Kamala and Tim have spent their entire careers fighting for middle class families like the ones they grew up in.”
Reporter: “Gwen Walz added that the Harris-Walz ticket is looking to build a quote ‘opportunity economy.’”
Reporter: “First Lady of Minnesota Gwen Walz was in Waukesha today. She spoke at the Waukesha County Democratic Party office. She talked about the importance of fighting for the middle class.”
Gwen Walz: “When you are out there talking to voters, I want you to ask them a simple question, who is fighting for you? Because the answer is very clear: Kamala and Tim have spent their entire careers fighting for middle class families like the ones they grew up in. And every day they are working to build an opportunity economy, one where everyone has a chance not just to scrape by but to get ahead.”
Online:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Gwen Walz rallies volunteers working ‘to keep Wisconsin blue’ at Ozaukee County stop
[Mary Spicuzza, 9/27/24]
Gwen Walz, Minnesota’s first lady and the wife of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, rallied a group of volunteers Thursday packed into a tiny campaign office in Ozaukee County — an area north of Milwaukee where Democrats have been gaining ground in recent elections.
“You are tireless volunteers who are going to keep Wisconsin blue,” Walz told about 60 people gathered at the Ozaukee County Democrats Office. “Kamala and Tim — you know this — they’re the underdogs in this race. But I know that we can win, and I know why we can win: because we have you.”
Walz, a former educator, was joined by Democratic state senate candidate Jodi Habush Sinykin and Deb Dassow, the party’s Ozaukee County chairwoman.
The Waukesha Freeman: Campaigns visit Waukesha
[Freeman Staff, 9/27/24]
[…] Minnesota’s first lady, Gwen Walz, wife of vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, found audience members on the same page as she exhorted Democrats to work to elect her husband and Kamala Harris during a campaign stop at the county’s Democratic Party headquarters in Waukesha on Thursday.
Walz borrowed a line from Harris, with the dozens of people packed into a room at the party office finishing her words with a familiar refrain.
“She says when we fight, we win. OK, Waukesha County, when we fight … ”
“We win!” the audience replied. “Let’s go, Wisconsin, when we fight … ” “We win!” the audience replied. “So let’s get to work!” Walz touched on the prime talking points of the Harris-Walz campaign, discussing what’s been called the “opportunity economy” aimed at helping everyone prosper and reproductive rights after Roe v. Wade was overturned as well as fertility treatments for families like her own.
WISN 12: Gwen Walz to campaign for Harris ticket in Milwaukee suburbs Thursday
[Matt Smith, 9/24/24]
Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz, the wife of Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz, will campaign in the Milwaukee suburbs Thursday for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz. Walz will make stops in Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties, known as the ‘WOW’ counties, which are traditional Republican strongholds. The Harris campaign didn’t release specific details.
The campaign said Walz discusses abortion rights and “speaks about the clear choice in this election.”
Trump won Waukesha County with nearly 60% of the vote in 2020, 68% in Washington County and 55% in Ozaukee County.
The stop comes ahead of the vice presidential debate Oct. 1.
CBS 58: Gwen Walz campaigns for Democrats in Ozaukee, Waukesha County
[Emilee Fannon, 9/26/24]
Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz visited the Milwaukee suburbs to campaign on behalf of the Harris-Walz ticket and Democrats up and down the ballot. Gwen spoke to a couple dozen supporters at the Ozaukee Democratic Party Headquarters in Grafton before traveling to Waukesha later in the afternoon. It marked Walz first solo campaign visit to Wisconsin to boost support for Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Tim Walz.
“They are the underdogs in this race, but I know that we can win,” Walz told supporters. “And I know why, we can win because we have you.”
Ozaukee and Waukesha County are two areas Democrats are targeting to try and pick up votes in areas that traditionally elect Republicans.
In Grafton, Walz was joined by Democrat Jodi Habush Sinykin, a candidate vying for the 8th state Senate District. She’ll face Republican Sen. Duey Strobel (R-Saukville) in November.
Courthouse News: At Wisconsin rally, Gwen Walz calls for national unity, common sense
[Destiny DeVooght, 9/26/24]
Gwen Walz, wife of current Minnesota governor and Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz, rallied for Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday in the historically red Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha.
Speaking to around 60 people at the Waukesha County Democratic Party’s downtown office, Walz focused heavily on what the Harris campaign has called a “New Way Forward” — a campaign strategy that emphasizes democratic ideals, fundamental freedoms and opportunity for all.
Walz was joined by Democratic Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez, who lives in Waukesha County and has been campaigning for Harris across the state. The event was one of four scheduled for the Harris campaign in Wisconsin this week, with a final rally in Madison on Friday led by New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Between bouts of praise for the Harris ticket and reminders about the importance of door-knocking, Walz also made a point to criticize the Republican platform — though with less vitriol than other Democrats in recent weeks. She cast the Harris campaign’s New Way Forward as a foil to the conservative Project 2025.
“What they are offering with their Project 2025 agenda, no one is asking for,” Walz said. “When Trump took down Roe, he opened the floodgates for extreme abortion bans in more than 20 states. And now, he and Vance want to stick their noses even further into our bedrooms and our doctors’ offices by putting fertility treatments at risk.”
