You're listening to civic meeting news special coverage of Kamala Harris and Tim Walls
campaigning in O'Clair.
All eyes in the political world on O'Clair right now are representatives of the top of
the ticket for the Democrats.
You have the running mate for the Republicans all in O'Clair this afternoon and a lot of
attention being paid to Wisconsin, as it will, between now and the November election,
a very important state and a very important time.
I'm Terry Bell of Civic Media News here on the Todd Allball show with Luke Mathers and
Trigg V. Olsen and we're getting set for the Vice President's remarks, which are scheduled
to happen any time now, but, of course, these things rarely go off on schedule, although
all our indications are that the program is moving right along north of O'Clair at the
former country fest grounds.
Correct.
And we've got Bonavere, who just ramped up, it seems, at the event Todd Alba and Civic
Media, or up north news Pat Cratello, are there at the event, they're covering the Vice
President and her running mates, Tim Wall's comments coming up to you, and we're going
to be bringing those comments to you live here across the Civic Media Radio Network, Trigg
V. Olsen, senior advisor of the Lincoln Project, talking about the importance of Western
Wisconsin, kind of the overlap between the state that Walls represents in Minnesota and
the blending of the Western Wisconsin and Minnesota culture, very similar vibes, but not
completely the same.
Your thoughts on the fact that this here is the second rally for the two candidates running
together after we saw in the conclusion last month of then President Joe Biden, or excuse
me, President Joe Biden, then the Democratic presumptive nominee stepping back and saying
he would not seek his party's nomination and Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the
presumptive Democratic nominee, her first event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
We're seeing a lot of the candidates coming here, as Terry alluded to, JD Vance, the Vice
Presidential nominee for the Republicans, also in Western Wisconsin today, just the magnitude
of what's going on there in Western Wisconsin and the importance of these candidates coming
to voters that may be the ones to decide the presidential election.
Aaron, can we get confirmation that Melissa K is on the line with us?
She is, and she is outside the JD Vance pass conference, and Melissa, can you give us a
sense of what the mood is where you're at?
Hi, Terry.
I'm here in the industrial park, Willard International, where JD Vance and his caravan just arrived.
There was a crowd of about 100 people out here that were waiting for his arrival.
The overall mood, I would say, is disappointment that they were not allowed in.
This was apparently a private event, and everything that people that came saw online was the
doors open at 11, and he gives remarks at 1.
So people are pretty disappointed that they wouldn't be able to come in, but the hard
court ones definitely stayed and showed their support.
Do you have any sense, and I don't mean to put you on the spot, having the idea of what
the running meant, what the Senator plans to say today and all clear?
No, there was zero indication of what he was going to talk about.
I think that there was one lady I spoke with early on, about 11.30 here this morning, who
took off work to be able to be here today, because she was actually invited to come and
then was told that she couldn't get in, and she gave me a short interview and said that
she had really hoped to be able to give some question and answer time, as it was indicated
to her, and to get to know him a little better, but she was invited and then told she couldn't
attend.
Oh, that's a surprising development.
Melissa K., Wisconsin Rapids Bureau Chief.
Melissa, thanks so much for all your hard work today.
Yep, you're welcome, guys.
Okay.
Appreciate it, Melissa.
So we don't have any advanced copy of JD Vance's remarks.
I can guess they're going to be very similar to what we've been hearing in the last 24
hours, or so phrases that I keep hearing repeated is, you know, radical left agenda in that
source of things.
It'll remain to be seen whether that kind of rhetoric will hold up with voters, but that's
what we're hearing so far.
It doesn't seem to be advancing the cause at the moment.
Well, in one of the comments I saw with the news yesterday of Governor Tim Walls being
the pick for the vice presidential running mate of Kamala Harris, the comments were that
from Senator Vance that the Harris team bent the knee to the left and some form of reference
to the fact that Walls was chosen over Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, seeming to try, as Terry,
you've alluded to painting those radical left brush for the governor from Minnesota.
He seems to be taking a lot of those attacks, Trig V, pretty well in stride in the lead
up to the being picked as the vice presidential running mate for Kamala Harris.
There were interviews several times that Governor Walls did saying, hey, I'm not going to
apologize for putting food into kids' bellies and making sure that they were fed going
to school.
It's going to be interesting to see in your thoughts as a senior adviser with the Lincoln
project if these attacks of painting Walls as a far leftist radical.
You think those are going to strike with the campaigns?
You know, I think they're to be expected.
I think they're going to have a hard time doing that with Walls to a degree as much as
it matters.
I mean, VP picks typically matter only around the edges, but the bottom line is Tim Walls
is a hunting guy.
He's a gun guy, but he's a gun guy who says, you know, we need to be responsible in terms
of addressing some of the things that are happening at schools from time to time.
I think they're going to have a hard time doing that.
I really, really do.
But, you know, obviously they're going to say it and they're going to say it and they're
going to say it and hope that it sticks.
I just think, you know, in the places where Walls will matter from an electoral standpoint
in places like LaCrosse or St. Croix or Pope Counties, you know, the places that see
him more often as governor, I just don't think that's going to be the case and quite frankly,
you know, when you think about the race in Wisconsin, it really comes down to democratic
turnout in Milwaukee and Dane County versus the suburbs in Brown for Republicans and
then it's going to come down to those states.
I mean, those Counties that touch I-94 and if you live in O'Claire LaCrosse or quite
frankly in Hudson, you're going to see a lot of presidential and vice presidential contenders
both on your TV and literally in your communities.
Yes.
And that's a good thing.
It's going to be very interesting to see that those communities along I-94.
Also the President Joe Biden, he has been facing those attacks.
He had a similar retort, not exactly the same vein as Governor Tim Walls, but more
along the lines of, well, if you think that I am a radical leftist socialist, his response
was, I beat the socialist in reference to Senator Bernie Sanders.
And so I will be interesting to see if those punches that the campaigns will be sending
of trying to paint the vice presidential pick for the Democratic Party as a far leftist
socialist if they land or not.
But I believe as you pointed out, Tim Walls used to have an a rating from the NRA and it
was something that he had as a centrist Democrat from a rural area in Minnesota.
And as he, as a father, you alluded to a trick as we were with Todd Alba here on the program
a little bit earlier, he's a girl dad, his daughter after the Parkland shooting said that
he needs to do more in addressing the gun violence that students are facing and as a former
teacher, he donated the campaign contributions that he had previously received from the NRA.
And now is a very, very common sense approach saying, I'm a gun owner, I hunt, I believe
he's made several references to Fezant and other hunting that he does in Minnesota.
And so it's going to be interesting to see folks trying to paint a Fezant hunter from
rural Minnesota as the far left, but it will be very interesting as these campaign
attack ads really heat up over the next 90 days.
We were watching the stage there and it looked like somebody was about to look like there's
a lot of excitement up there.
Yes.
I think that's a familiar face, I believe, at the podium that may be Ben Wickler, if I'm
not mistaken, the chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, but I can zoom in and close
here.
And in fact, he's not.
It is not.
No, but another bearded.
I was just testing, but they were getting close here.
Folks, you were listening to special coverage, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running
made Minnesota governor Tim Walls speaking in Western Wisconsin this afternoon.
We will be bringing those remarks to you live here across the Civic Media Radio Network.
I'm Luke Mathers filling in for Mr. Todd Alba as he is live on location there in O'Clair,
Johnson, joined by Terry Bell, news director for Civic Media here in the world headquarters,
high above state street and joined as well by Trigvy Olsen, senior advisor to the Lincoln
project.
It's going to be a very interesting campaign cycle here, Terry.
One of the aspects that a lot have talked about in the recent month since the top of the
ticket change for the Democratic nomination is, well, it's too short of a campaign.
It's too soon to the election kind of remarks, saying, well, you already had a primary,
you can't do, you can't just change the top of the ticket like that, a 90 day, 100 day,
110 day window, very common for other countries.
Your thoughts is, as somebody who's covered a lot of these presidential races in the past,
what do you believe that's going to mean for a condensed cycle this year?
Well, what may happen, and I read an article this morning that said that if Harris wins,
we may see shorter election cycles in the future.
Usually they start right after the midterms for president.
If Harris is successful, candidates and parties may take a step back and say, do we need
this grind and this expense for a year and a half when we can do it inside of a year?
So that will be the interesting thing for me to follow, for me to see whether it bears
out is whether or not campaigns get shorter.
I'll tell you, voters, I'm guessing probably would be very much in favor of that.
It seems like we live in a world of constant campaign mode.
And frankly, I think it's part of what's turning people off about participating in
election.
Exactly.
And then we seem to be living with it year round every year.
Well, I don't want to scare you or not, but we do have a state Supreme Court race that
will be coming up in February and April of 2025.
And the stakes will be exactly the same as they were last year.
Here in Wisconsin, no sign of letting up for that election fatigue.
Trigvy, your thoughts on how this condensed political cycle will have an effect on future
political cycles?
You know, I'm not sure that it will have much.
I mean, I think it was kind of an extenuating set of circumstances that led to what we
saw.
Now, did it work out well for the Democratic Party?
It appears that it did.
But I don't know that structurally really things are set up in such a way to have this become
more of the norm.
I think the bigger piece of the 24-hour news cycle and everything is breaking news and
every battle is existential.
You know, some of that resides in the reality that we've had, we've had a group of people
who've discovered that political extremism is a great media model.
You can make a lot of money if you have 10% of the people outraged all the time because
they're going to tune in, nonstop.
And hopefully we can move a little bit away from that element of it because I think that's
what makes people feel like they're having to live it all the time.
Yes, it will definitely be interesting to see if it is just an exception to the rules
or if we're going to see any changes long-term or if it is, we've been hearing for a very
long time that the cycle is going to break, that the fever was going to break for a lot
of the political extremism that we've been seeing in the build-up of the last several
years, but all signs do point that that extremism is definitely still on the ballot this November.
So we'll be interesting with the November's results of what will occur beyond that.
Folks, you were listening to special event coverage across the Civic Media Radio Network.
I'm Luke Mathers, filling in for Mr. Todd Alba as he is live on location attending the
event in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Vice President Kamala Harris and her newly announced running
mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, going to be taking the stage shortly there in Western
Wisconsin.
I'm joined by Terry Bell, Civic Media News Director and Trigvy Olsen of the Lincoln Project,
and it is shaping up to be, I think, a little bit a larger event than what is also going
on in Eau Claire as Melissa Kay was reporting just moments ago with us, Terry.
I don't have an official headcount, but it looks from all accounts.
This is a fairly sizable event taking place there in Western Wisconsin.
One of the few and one of the first outdoor events for the Democrats that I can recall, Donald
Trump was fond of having them outdoors up until the assassination attempt.
I'm not aware of any rallies since then that have been held outdoors, but this is a bit
of an anomaly for the Democratic ticket, but I think it's part of the rollout of Tim Walls,
or the introduction of Tim Walls to the American voters, and a lot of excitement in Eau Claire,
as we've mentioned a few times on the show, Western Wisconsin is practically Tim Walls
country.
If you live in Western Wisconsin, people live and work across the border.
People have family across the border.
There's very much one part of the world there.
This is a homecoming of sorts for him and also, you know, a lot of excitement among
people who want to be excited about this ticket in Western Wisconsin.
And anecdotally, the crowd images that we've been seeing online and on social media would
back that up one on X. There was a photo of a line of cars purportedly a mile and a half
long on the way to the event that gives you any idea.
Yes.
The reporter for the Nation magazine joined Todd Alba and Pat Crightlow earlier in the 12 o'clock
hour this afternoon saying that folks were reportedly saying they waited in line for
about an hour and a half to get into the venue.
So it's definitely the stream that we are currently watching for the event shows a sizable
crowd there in the country, the former country ground music fest grounds there just north
of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
And folks, if you're just joining us now and you did not hear, we also have news out
of Milwaukee, Wisconsin this afternoon.
We've got the latest Marquette polling, the first Marquette University Law School poll
since the change of the top of the ticket for the Democratic Party.
And we've got a pretty dead even heat Terry when it comes to the polling done by Marquette
Law School, your thoughts and the top lines provided by Marquette earlier today.
Well, we have among registered voters and likely voters, a one point lead for Donald Trump
in each category of 50 to 49.
That's a virtual dead heat that is well within the polls margin of error.
But perhaps more interestingly as trigly pointed out, that represents a sizable bump that
Kamala Harris had compared to what Joe Biden was polling right before he dropped out
of the race.
And that would be consistent with what we're seeing in other polls, especially in battleground
states.
This has become a real race again after, you know, it seems to have flattened out before
the Biden announcement of a couple of weeks ago.
And interestingly enough, having the numbers too of what the, what the respondents to this
poll would have said had the match up stayed by the Trump.
Exactly.
Yeah, I think it does change the dynamic of the race.
And so I can't imagine that there's too many pollsters out there that have that opportunity
to say, hey, we're in the midst of a pretty monumental switch of the top of the tickets
for one of the two major party nominees.
And it's one of those things where I think the three weeks leading up from the June 27th
debate to President Joe Biden's decision to no longer seek his party's nomination was
a lot of well, we don't know what the alternative would be.
And we kind of get a chance to see in the snapshot poll from Marquette University Law School,
the difference of where we would have gone, the road less traveled with, with had Biden
state in the race.
So I think that very interesting numbers coming out of Marquette.
Yep.
And also the poll does show it seems that though that Senator Tammy Baldwin is extending
her lead over a challenger, Eric Hubdy.
That would be the other big takeaway from today's polls, looking for the exact numbers.
But that is, that is what what I understand.
I believe 5347 is what I saw on the top.
5346.
46.
Trigvey, your response is registered voters.
You're right.
So Luke, you're point about Biden and where we'd be.
I mean, the reality is, and I do quite a bit of survey research for others, stuff that
I do, it was abundantly clear because we tracked this in places like Wisconsin.
Post debate, there was this four to six percent that really was uncomfortable with both candidates.
And we're definitely not going to vote for Trump, had voted for Biden in the past.
They tend to be more right of center.
They're back in Tammy Baldwin.
After the debate, Biden's number is just eroded amongst those people and amongst the intensity
of his base.
And it was clear those voters, the lift, and it probably was impossible for Biden to
get those people back, just too many of them were going to say I'm not voting for either
of them.
Harris changed that entire dynamic.
And I've seen comments.
And I've seen comments, Trigvey, since the change at the top of the ticket there, from
the Harris campaign saying that if they lose this election, it is not because they lost
it to Donald Trump, but instead they lost it to people sitting the election out.
And so it's going to be very interesting to see how voters are responding.
This first Marquette University Law School polling gives us a little bit of a sampling
of it.
But as we alluded to as well, a very condensed cycle with these two candidates, the Harris
Trump match up at the top of the ticket.
We are going to hear from Vice President Kamala Harris and her selected running mate, Minnesota
Governor Tim Walls, coming up shortly, folks, you are listening to special event coverage
across the civic media radio network.
I'm Luke Mathers.
We got Todd Alba and Pat Crightlow live on location, along with civic media news reporter,
James Kelly.
I'm joined here in the studio by civic media's news director, Terry Bell, as well as Trigvey
Olson, senior advisor to the Lincoln project, covering the events in Western Wisconsin.
This afternoon, you're listening across the civic media radio network.
Terry, after today's event, it seems the Vice President and her running mate, Walls,
are going to be heading to a number of other battleground states, Wisconsin.
Yes, we very, very, we like to wear it as a badge of honor that we are kind of that political
center of the universe.
But we are not the only stop for this trip across the swing states.
Harris and Walls going to be visiting, I believe, Michigan this afternoon.
And then on to other battleground states that before this change at the top of the ticket
seems like they may not be battleground states, there was going to be a narrowing of how
many states were going to be up for contention for this presidential race coming November.
But North Carolina, Georgia, and then I believe Arizona and Nevada as well, all on this list
that Harris and Walls will be visiting in the coming days, your thoughts on the ticket
going to these battleground states and trying to expand the map beyond just the Midwestern
quote unquote, blue wall of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
I'm glad you mentioned the blue wall one, one analyst I heard said that really, Harris,
if Harris wins Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, that she would have enough
electoral votes to win.
But it's probably smart on their part to think beyond that blue wall to be getting into
places like you mentioned, Arizona, Nevada, and out east that, you know, that are swing
states, pick those up, you know, get that cushion, so to speak, so that, you know, you
never, you know, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, incredibly important.
But you don't want to leave anything to chance.
And so that's why we're seeing this ticket going to so many places and, you know, riding
this, this wave of goodwill while it lasts.
And we'll see how long it will last beyond, you know, the next couple of weeks, you know,
campaigns slog on surprises come up.
We don't know what we're going to find out in the next week or two about any of the candidates.
And that could change things quite a bit.
So, you know, they're riding the wave of goodwill for two walls while it lasts.
And that's a, that's a smart thing to do.
One of the things we don't know yet, if there will be is a vice presidential debate
or a second presidential debate, this cycle, we've seen former president Donald Trump take
a step back from the September 10th debate that he had agreed to with President Biden.
And it seems like there is not yet set in stone just with the, the recent C of the announcement
of Tim Walls being the vice presidential selection.
If we're going to have dates and specifics for debate between Tim Walls and JD Vance,
Trig V, your thoughts on whether or not we're going to be getting some debates this cycle.
And if or whether or not the Harris team is going to agree to say a Fox News debate that
the former president, Donald Trump, is suggesting be in replacement of the ABC debate.
So I think, you know, it's one of the, one of the issues that we have is for, for decades,
the presidential debate commission made the, made the work in a bipartisan way to make
it happen.
The Republican Party pulled out of that, you now kind of have the free for all of candidates
directly negotiating with each other.
I can't imagine a scenario given that Trump agreed to go on ABC that, that, that Harris
campaign is going to accept going on Fox News.
I just don't see that happening.
I think there will eventually be a presidential debate one more just because the pressure to
see it is going to be great.
It probably will be the ABC one.
Vice presidential debates, you know, yeah, I can't imagine we won't have one.
But you never know.
I mean, because it's uncharted ground without that check of the presidential debate commission.
And the death of that is really kind of sad.
It was imperfect, but it was compromised.
Yes.
And one of the, one of the remarks from the, the Republican, I believe the RNC itself post
the convention in Milwaukee saying that they would not agree to a vice presidential debate
quite yet because they did not know who vice president Kamala Harris was going to be
choosing as her running mate, kind of made ingest at the time, Trigvy, but a little bit different
political landscape that we all live in now, as opposed to those final days of the Republican
national convention that wrapped up in Milwaukee last month.
Yeah, it's amazing how fast all that kind of transpired, right?
Yeah, it's definitely whether or not that individual for the Republican party decided that they
may have wielded into existence.
We'll never know that's or not, but it is very, very strange that that is the events that
unfolded the way that they did.
If I were, if I were, if you were an engineer, if you, if you were, if I were the chancellor of
O'Clayer or LaCrosse or Steven's point, I'd probably be reaching out to major news organizations
to say, and hey, we'd love to host a presidential debate.
Let's try and convince them to show up and believe you Milwaukee, yeah, UW Milwaukee hosting
one of those presidential debates back in the 2020 cycle leading up to that election.
So definitely something that could be on the table here in Wisconsin, the possibility
of hosting any of those potential debates that could arise.
We are now going to be joined by civic media reporter James Kelly, who is on the scene live
at location there in O'Clayer, Wisconsin, James.
What is the scene there at the events like?
Well, there is a lot of excitement and it's growing pretty quickly.
We had a little musical performance earlier and now we're just kind of waiting for the
actual show to begin.
Any word, James, of any developments as far as what we can expect to hear today or anything
that's come through that we haven't learned in the past half hour or so here at the studio?
We haven't learned anything new here.
I would have to imagine given what O'Clayer is facing right now with the healthcare crisis,
that is going to be somewhat of a topic that gets covered, even nationwide, access to affordable
healthcare and rural areas, that's a big issue of affecting a lot of communities and especially
here right now with two hospitals being lost.
So I would imagine that's something that will get covered at some point and I'm sure Governor
Wallace is going to have a lot to say about the relationship between Wisconsin and Minnesota.
I don't mean to put it on the spot, but have there been any word about crowd estimates coming
your way?
You know, I heard a few people talking in the thousands and it looks pretty accurate
to me.
It's the main stage area here with rafters that are completely full and there's a general
admission area that's right in front of an stage also completely full and then if you
go around the corner from where the stage is, it looks like an absolute sea of blue signs.
Everybody really excited by everybody cheering.
There are a lot of people here.
That's for sure.
Thank you, James Kelly, civic media's Chippewa Valley bureau chief on the scene.
He's there with Todd Abon and Pat Crite Low.
I'll get it right.
I have a communications degree.
I was struggling with passing myself as well as well as going and James, we'll make sure
that Terry doesn't send you on assignment to get an official head count by going around
with a clicker or anything like that.
Whatever you guys need, if we want an official head count, I'll start counting.
Thanks James.
Yeah, we are still the last word is that this is supposed to have happened about 20 minutes
ago.
I'm not quite sure what the delay is about, but I'm sure it's for a perfectly good reason.
A lot of people, patients might as well be outside on a day like today.
The weather is absolutely gorgeous, especially for early August.
Yeah, much better today than any of the point last week, because I can cannot imagine being
out there, but definitely a sizable crowd in Western Wisconsin, folks you are listening
to special event coverage across the civic media radio network.
We are covering the events of Vice President Kamala Harris attending a rally announcing
from her pick yesterday of Minnesota governor, Tim Walls, as her running mate, it is a sizable
event in Western Wisconsin, the vice president and the governor's response coming shortly
here.
I'm joined.
I'm Luke Mathers joined by Terry Bell, civic media news director here in the headquarters
in Madison.
We've got Mr. Aaron Zommers on the board and are joined by Trigvy Olsen of the Lincoln
project leading up to these events.
It is going to be an interesting political cycle.
There is no shortage of surprises.
If you told us a month ago that this was going to be the Democratic ticket being announced
yesterday in Philadelphia and campaigning today here in Western Wisconsin, it would have
been hard to believe, but there is one of those things where things move quickly.
We are covering these events as they occur, so you want to download the civic media app,
be sure to take us with you wherever you go.
You can stay in the know when it comes to breaking news and we will be taking the remarks
live for the vice president and her running mate coming up shortly.
Trigvy, before we were joined there by James, we were discussing the swing states and the
all likelihood of the expanded map that there may be now with the change at the top of
the ticket.
Your thoughts on the other states that these two candidates will be heading out to and
apparently tailed by Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance when it comes to events later
in the week in states like Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, and Nevada.
Yeah, those are all, you know, at the end of the day, it really comes down to three states,
Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
If Kamala Harris wins those states, she and all likelihood is going to end up being elected.
If she wins a state like Georgia, she's probably going to have won those other three.
Arizona is also to a degree on the list and Nevada, North Carolina, maybe a little bit,
but the truth of the matter is most of the action is going to be Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
and Michigan, Arizona, and you see that with the VP picks of both candidates and that's
just really where it's going to be.
You know, what's different about the race with Harris in it?
Could you have a situation where states like North Carolina or Georgia are much more competitive?
Yeah, absolutely, whereas with Biden, quite frankly, if the map was going to get bigger,
it probably was going to get bigger in places like Minnesota and places where Trump was having an
advantage. So at this point, you know, I think the race either stays really close, which is the
most likelihood and it's going to come down then to places like Western Wisconsin, certain parts
of Michigan and Pennsylvania, or you could have a situation where Harris ends up, you know,
getting a bigger lead and then you start seeing Trump have to defend turf that's unexpected.
And we should know that by early September where the race is sort of sitting.
Okay, so if things are still really close, one of the scenarios for the electoral map that has
had been arising a little bit more, I believe, back when the matchup was still a former president,
Trump versus president Biden, was the scenario of the sole electoral vote in Nebraska that
is independent and votes off individually and the Omaha, Nebraska, I believe area.
And part of that was coming into contention of we had Republican state officials in Nebraska
floating the idea of not allowing that sole electoral vote to be able to be independent.
Governor Tim Walls, originally a Nebraska native, do you believe some of those concerns about
whether or not Republicans can pick up that district in Nebraska? Do you think I get
subsided by the the pick in Tim Walls with the native son on the ticket or do you believe
some of those concerns still arise in the party politics played around that sole electoral vote?
It is the Omaha, it's the Omaha congressional district is stomping and seated.
It's University, Nebraska, which, you know, a lot of these university areas are kind of swing areas
now. I don't know that, you know, when Biden was on the ticket, it was abundantly clear that
that the race was going to potentially be a referendum on Biden and that was not a good thing,
probably the one way that Trump could win. I think you're going to see less discussion about one
electoral vote in Nebraska and you're going to see a lot more discussion about is Georgia in play
and how close Georgia is or how close North Carolina is than that, which would have been the case
with Biden. And because quite frankly, the Biden team was really scraping to get any electoral
votes as they could because they had such problems in Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
All right. Well, it will be interesting to see as we have today here in Wisconsin some of the
first polling since the vice president Kamala Harris has taken over as the presumptive
Democratic nominee. We will have more polling coming out as the ticket is being formed as it was
yesterday in Pennsylvania of being a Harris Walls ticket. Folks, you were listening to civic
media special event coverage. I'm Luke Mathers joined in studio by Terry Bell news director
for the civic media radio network as well as Trig V Olsen senior advisor to the Lincoln project.
We are going to be covering the remarks coming from vice president Kamala Harris and her newly
selected running mates, Minnesota governor Tim Walls coming up momentarily. We are watching the
events as they unfold in O'Clayer, Wisconsin this afternoon. We will bring you those remarks live
when the two take the stage and anything stick stick out to you Terry from the remarks as their
first campaign event held at Temple University in Philadelphia yesterday evening was anything in
particular that stood out for you with the the rollout of the walls pick. Well, it seemed to go
very smoothly as you expected would. The one thing that stands out to me kind of a fact that I
personally think is very interesting when he was a high school teacher in the very same year,
he coached his high school football team to a state championship and was the faculty advisor to
his high school's gay straight alliance. So, you know, it's something that would have
seemed hard to imagine 40, 30, even 20 years ago. You know, somebody who was so many things to
so many people that occurs in in the mid 90s and also the time when when this was unheard of
at the time or you're considered very risky. Yes. And so and that state championship I believe
coming three years after the team had zero wins. So taking over program from my understanding that
went from oh and however many games they played that season to just a short three year period later
winning the Minnesota state championship. Very interesting to see yes, he's a he's a football coach.
Those remarks from vice president Kamala Harris were clear referring to him several times yesterday
in Philadelphia at the rally announcing him as the VP pick referring to him as coach walls.
One of the other references made yesterday at the rally and will be interesting to see if these
remarks continue on the stump going forward. But vice president Harris referencing if you compare
walls is record with advances record. We've got the the varsity squad versus the JV squad.
Mr. Zomers if you want to play it for the people this was at the temple
university rally announcing vice president Kamala Harris's pick as Tim Walsh for her running
mates in Philadelphia last night. In fact. In fact when you compare his resume.
Shall we to Trump's running mate. Well well well some might say it's like it's like a matchup
between the varsity team and the JV squad. So those are some of the remarks on the stump
yesterday. Trigview your response to kind of that comparison of records between the Republicans
pick for vice president and the Democrats. Well I think at the end of the day in places like
Michigan and Wisconsin you're seeing an Ohio venture capitalist being what what the Donald Trump
and mega version of the party believe is the Midwest versus a former school teacher and marine
or army. I think he's in the army governor of the state and that you know who likes to hunt.
So I can't imagine that that contrast won't be clear to people.
And that contrast is going to be made in in campaign ads and whether or not we're going to see
a vice president will debate that contrast I think is going to be very interesting to see
and these stump speeches. I think even more important than that. I mean people people in the states
who Wisconsin and Michigan are going to see these people face to face like people in O'Claire are today.
Well see me not all of them. So they're going to be they're going to be making that comparison
that way. And not all the individuals trying to get into the events event taking place in O'Claire
this afternoon are able to get in face-to-face contact with him as they who may have been
believed it was available according to that reporting by civic media as Melissa K up in O'Claire
this afternoon. And so yes here in Wisconsin in swing states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.
These candidates are going to be attending these events holding these events going to the
the small town diners the possible football games of high schools across the state like that is
a real possibility. I can see a former high school coach really gleaning at the opportunity to go
and talk to some voters at a Friday night live event Friday night lights event. And so it'll
definitely be interesting to see on this stump. Some of the other sound that we have from the event
yesterday again you are listening to civic media special event coverage vice president Kamala Harris
and her running mate Minnesota governor Tim Walsh in O'Claire, Wisconsin this afternoon. This
from the event that they took place in Philadelphia yesterday with the announcement of Walsh as the
running mate. We've got some more sound from vice president talking about Terry with the situation
you alluded to Walsh stepping up for some of his students back in the 90s. Mr. Zomers if we can play
this clip for the people. Tim wasn't only a role model on the football field around at same time
coach Walsh was approached by a student in his social studies class. The young man was one of the
first openly gay students at the school and was hoping to start a gay straight alliance. At a
time, at a time when acceptance was difficult to find for LGBTQ students, Tim knew the signal that
it would send to have a football coach get involved. So that Terry,
alluding to the remarks that you saw stand out to you at the the campaign event taking place in
Philadelphia yesterday afternoon. I think it's also not only the history in the background that
Walsh has as a educator in Minnesota, represented a pretty middle of the grounds congressional
districts when it came to his time before governor, spending it in Congress, not necessarily
hailing from an area around the Twin Cities, but a little bit more rural, a little bit more moderate
congressional district. Your thoughts on that? Yeah, that's a district that has elected a wide
variety of different viewpoints for the U.S. representatives. So that's an excellent and interesting
point. I'm also getting word that according to our reporting, the reporting that we're seeing,
that they are waiting for the JD Vance events to wrap up and before this one starts.
Not sure the thinking behind that, but that is what is going on at the Harris rally.
As far as I know, I'll stand corrected if I'm wrong, but that's the word I'm getting.
All right. An interesting tactic if that's the case. Trigvy, your thoughts on kind of
starting, if you're having dueling rallies, waiting for the others to conclude before you start
your own. Yeah, you know, in normal times, I would say that that's just the two campaigns giving
difference to one another. I'm not sure that that's the case now. I mean, I've worked on plenty of
campaigns, certainly during primaries where, you know, the campaigns are in contact and they agree
after a primary who's going to speak when and not stepping on each other. In this particular case,
I don't know that they're on that good terms, but it probably makes sense to wait till he's done
doing whatever he's doing. All right. And we've got, uh, we are keeping an eye. Folks,
we were listening to special event coverage across the civic media radio network. I am Luke
Mathers joined in studio by news director Terry Bell and via the stream, uh, Trigvy Olsen.
We are covering the events of Vice President Kamala Harris coming to Western Wisconsin for
remarks with her newly decided running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walsh. We're going to take a
brief break and we will return with more.
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You're listening to Civic Media News special coverage of Vice President Harris
and a running eight Tim Walls campaigning in O'Clair. All eyes are on Western Wisconsin today,
also the Republican running mate JD Vance speaking in O'Clair earlier. Word is that he just wrapped
up so we anticipate the Vice President and her running eight will be speaking soon.
And also today, a very important day in Wisconsin. The latest Marquette poll has just been released
showing a virtual tie between the two candidates running for president. And that's not surprising,
but still very important. So a lot is going on here in Wisconsin and we're keeping you on top of
all the latest developments and judging by the appearances of things happening at the former
country, Festgrounds and O'Clair, sounds like that things will maybe be getting started soon. So
I mentioned that Marquette Law School poll, among registered voters, 50 percent support Donald
Trump, 49 percent support Harris, among likely voters, the same numbers, 50 for Trump, 49 for
Harris. Poll was released just an hour or two ago. When polling for the former president Joe Biden
and Donald Trump, it was 42 to 47. So it's been a significant change since President Biden
dropped out of the race. The poll surveyed 877 registered voters between July 24th and August
Marginvair plus or minus 4.6 percentage points as there were 801 that likely voters with
the Marginvair plus or minus 4.8 points. Starting next month, the poll is going to start to emphasize
likely voters as the November election draws closer and we'll be very interested to see what happens
there. We are awaiting the beginning of the Harris Walls rally in O'Clair, Wisconsin, a spot just
north of O'Clair where there used to be the grounds for country-fest USA, a large outdoor festival
grounds. And this is one of the rare outdoor events for Democrats this year. Most of them have
been indoors. In fact, Joe Biden's one of his last campaign appearances was at a middle school
gymnasium in Madison. So you can see just exactly how the dynamic of the race has changed just
by the optics alone. Yeah, glad to be with you Terry this afternoon. I have this is here. Yeah.
And we are joined as well by Trigvy Olsen, Senior Advisor of the Lincoln Project.
Some of the numbers that will be interesting to take a look at in the polling, but we've got
now we'll go live into the events. I've been far and right here in the Chippell Valley my entire
life. In 1984 my great-grandfather Dan Danielson moved to Chippell Valley and homesteaded
our original farm. My grandfather William continued on with the family farm, followed by my father
Wayne. Today my two brothers and I all farm in the same area and cannot just over 20 minutes from
here. My extended family still farm the same land my great-grandparents did and we look forward
to farming it for years to come. My wife Deborah and I purchased 700 acres of our own land and
now grow 500 acres of corn, soybeans and some hay. We built our grain setup and milk a small herd
of cows. My story is a Wisconsin story one of hard work and perseverance and that's why I'm glad
and excited that Vice President Harris's running mate is a lifelong midwesterner.
Just like me we'll always fight for working families and understands real America.
As a kid from Kadat I'm very proud to stand on this stage today as we welcome the next president
and Vice President of the United States to the Chippell Valley.
Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Laws know that real America is the backbone of our nation.
Its family farms like mine the feeder country and its small businesses and towns like Kadat
the keeper economy strong.
But while Donald Trump was in office
we are listening to comments made by Les Danielson, a farmer from Kadat,
Wisconsin who is seemingly going to be one of the last speakers at the event in Oklahoma
where Wisconsin this afternoon introducing Vice President Kamala Harris and his sort of governor
big oil and giant corporations. Not family farms and he made it harder for us to compete.
Together with President Biden Kamala Harris is fought for real communities
whether through fixing our roads and bridges so we can get products to markets or fighting
to expand affordable health care or
or helping family farms like mine. Donald Trump and JD fans just don't care about real America
no matter how much they pretend to. That's why this November I'm voting for Kamala Harris and
Governor Laws. And now it's my honor to introduce our future Vice President Governor Tim Laws.
Folks you are listening to special event coverage across the civic media radio network I'm Luke
Mathers. We are covering the events of Vice President Kamala Harris and the running mate
Minnesota governor Tim Walls speaking in western Wisconsin this afternoon former excuse me
governor Tim Walls walking across the stage now heading to the campaign event and going to be
delivering his remarks shortly. He was just introduced by Wisconsin farmer Les Daniels
and we will hear remarks from Governor Walls the newly selected running mate shortly.
Wow. Wow. Hello Claire.
Isn't it good to have a candidate who can pronounce the name correctly?
Wow. Les thank you thank you for the introduction more importantly thank you for
articulating what we know it means to live out here in the Midwest care for your neighbors kindness.
I want to acknowledge a few people today somebody who I have to tell you might be the kindest
human being I have ever met your governor Tony Evers.
A dear friend of mine who had a chance to serve within the House of Representatives and
incredible senator Tammy Baldwin the people's lawyer your attorney general Josh Call
and someone who knows education is a foundation of everything state superintendent Jill underlie
all the state and local officials are here but I want to say that probably no personal privilege on
this I got a bunch of my family down here in the front so a couple of them a couple of them are
badgers too by the way so and a real special thank you to everybody here looking out across your
look you're busy people you got things to do it's a summer day you had to walk two miles I had
nothing to do with that by the way nothing but you came here for one beautiful simple reason you
loved this country and this democracy I couldn't be prouder to be on this ticket to help make
Kamala Harris the next president of the United States you know it vice president Harris is on
the side of the American people she took on predators fraudsters transnational gang members she stood
up against powerful corporate interests and she never hesitated not once to reach across the aisle
if it improved people's lives being a Midwesterner too I know a little something about commitment to
people I was born in a small town in Nebraska where community meant everything my mom and dad taught
me to show generosity to my neighbors and work for a common good at seventeen I joined the Army
National Guard for 24 years I proudly wore the uniform of this nation
and and that service just as it did for my dad a career and warrior veteran and millions of
others I got the GI Bill and it gave me a shot at a college education my dad was a teacher my
siblings were all teachers and three of a married teachers it's noble work I had the privilege of
teaching public school social studies and coaching football for 20 years
and for all you Packer and Badgers fan yeah we did win a state championship so
that's what we do but it was my students who encouraged me to run for office I never thought
that much about it but they saw in me what I was hoping to instill in them this idea of a commitment
to a better world a common good a belief that one single person can actually make a difference
I lived in a red district but my neighbors were kind enough and graced me with the opportunity
to go to the United States House of Representatives for 12 years to represent them
I learned how to compromise without compromising my values
and as governor of the great state of Minnesota I brought all that experience
okay okay are there Minnesotans in the house today
bringing that experience to tackle the challenges that we're facing our state we don't shy away
from challenges but I'll tell you what Donald Trump he sees the world differently than we see it
he has no understanding of service because he's too busy servicing himself
again and again and again again and again and again this guy weekends our country to strengthen
his own hands he mocks our laws he shows chaos and division amongst the people
and that's to say nothing of the job he did as president
he froze in the face of COVID and it caused people's lives
he drove the economy into the ground and make no mistake about it violent crime was up when
Donald Trump was president those of you who are a little older know this older Republicans
used to talk about freedom these guys today it turns out that freedom to them means
government should be free to invade your exam room with your doctor
now look we're pretty neighborly with Wisconsin we get our friendly battles but in Minnesota
just like in Wisconsin we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make
even if even if we won't make the same choices for ourselves because we know there's a golden rule
mind your own damn business mind your own damn business
I don't need you telling me about our health care I don't need you telling us who we love
and I sure the hell don't need you telling us what books we're gonna read
and there's a very personal one for me and that includes IVF some of you might have heard this
this is very personal for my wife and I when Gwen and I decided to have children we went through
years of fertility treatments and I remember each night praying that the call was going to come
and it was going to be good news the phone would ring tenseness in my stomach and then the agony
when you heard the treatments hadn't worked so it wasn't by chance that when we welcomed
our first child our beautiful daughter we named her hope
when vice president and Harrison I and everyone here talks about freedom we mean the
freedom to make your own health care decisions and for all of our little ones to be free to go
to school without worrying about being shot dead in their classroom and just like Wisconsin
over in Minnesota we believe in the second amendment but we also believe in common sense gun violence
laws and just so you know when I was in Congress I was the top gun at the trap shoot three years
in array I can out shoot them too I can out shoot these guys look freedom is when freedom
oh can we can we get somebody to help somebody's hot somebody's hot can we get somebody to help
you okay
drink some water folks it is hot out it's somebody up folks you are listening is a special event
coverage we've got Minnesota governor Tim Walls newly selected Democratic presidential running
mate of vice president Kamala Harris addressing the crowd it seems one of the attendees in the
audience is without water now we're getting some chance from the crowd as the governor ensures that
the attendee at the rally is getting some water and is attracted to you're listening to this
special event broadcast across the civic media radio network I'm Luke Mathers joined in studio by
news director Terry Bell covering the events thank you all for helping this afternoon great
opportunity thank you all take care of one another on this this is this is why we gather look
it's hot it is hot I'll come again they've got folks here we'll we'll make sure we're okay but I
have to tell you all again I in all seriousness to come and gather like this to talk about our
freedoms the ability to talk about what could be good and I have to say this idea of caring for
our neighboring kindness and a hand up when somebody needs it or just the sense of that people go
through things and to be able to be there when they need it that's who we are it's not about mocking
it's not name callings and you see it amongst them
yeah thank you all
sounds like the person in the crowd who may have suffered some sort of heat related incidents
appears to be taken care of there's a pause from the crowd governor walls taking some time
from his speech to make sure that the person thank you all we're okay he's going to show you more
about that in the hours come getting him some water and it's good he's going to get up you guys need
some water too well ask him Teddy can you see if they have some more water that'd be great take
care of your neighbors yeah a bit of one of those unexpected moments we cover so many speeches
that are very highly choreographed and then you have a moment like this and governor walls taking
time from his speech to make sure that the person in the crowd is getting care they need and it sounds
like it sounds like the person is getting the attention they need and the governor will resume his
remarks you know what this is about this is about when they talk about the freedoms that we heard
and freedom in education means that our teachers aren't saddled with crippling debt when they
go into this the student owned that and I'll tell you what a big part of this is we settle our
political differences not through violence but through our votes the question is pretty simple
this election is all about asking that question which direction will this country go in
Donald Trump knows a direction he wants to take us he wants to take it back he wants to do the
things that you saw but be very clear don't believe him when he plays dumb he knows exactly what
he's talking about he knows exactly what project 2025 will do and restricting and taking our
freedoms he knows that it rigs the economy for the super rich if he gets a chance to go back to the
White House it will be far worse than it was four years ago raising costs for the middle class
repeating repealing the Affordable Care Act gutting so security and Medicare the very safety nets
that protect people when they're down and of course banning abortions across this country with
or without Congress this is where we talk to our neighbors Donald Trump is not for you or your family
and Trump's running mate shares those same dangerous and backward beliefs you know just like all
of us in regular America we we go to Yale and then we have our careers funded by Silicon Valley
billionaires and then you write a book about the place you grew up and you trash that place
come on that's not who Wisconsin is that's not who Minnesota is we're better than that we're better than
that one of the best parts of this job is going to be I can't wait till the debate so
look I've done this enough and I know bullies and I'm not a name caller but what I am is a teacher I
observed things so I want to tell you what I observed and you've deserved about you observed about
these guys when you see them that it's a very clear thing yes they are creepy and and where does
hell you see it you see it this is not normal this is not normal behavior nobody's asking for this crazy
stop so I'll tell you what you heard it from the vice president you've heard her talk about this
we're sure the hell not going back we're not going back we are not going back we are not going back
we damn sure are but it's even more than that this is a campaign about where we're going and
that's a future where everyone matters and everyone's included Kamala Harris she believes in
the freedom and make your own choices she believes in opportunity for every single person to
join the middle class and she believes in the promise of America thank you madam vice president
for the trust that you placed in me Wisconsin please help me in giving a warm midwest welcome to
the next president of the United States Kamala Harris and now we'll hear from the top of the ticket
vice president Kamala Harris after governor tomb walz's remarks talking about his background as
a teacher taking a few pokes at his opponent on the republican side both Donald Trump and JD
vans remarks it went over well with the crowd and now vice president Kamala Harris making her way
towards the podium at the former country fest USA grounds just north of Oclair the day after
Tim Walz was named Kamala Harris's vice presidential running mate and that the presidential
campaign if it wasn't already is officially in full stride and your broadcast you're here
and you're listening to this broadcast line from Oclair Wisconsin across the civic media radio
network at online at civicmedia.us and your local civic media station we'll hear shortly from
vice president Kamala Harris and our friends severe studios also letting us know it is 78 degrees
there in Wisconsin so there's a warm one and why governor walz had to address the crowd.
Good afternoon always good to be back good afternoon everybody can we hear it for Tim Walz?
I'm so happy to be running with you let me tell you so let me start by thanking less
your words your leadership your voice it's so important less thank you for everything you are
and everything you do for our country and it is good to be with so many incredible leaders including
the most magnificent wonderful governor Tony Evers every time I come to Wisconsin Tony meets me on
the tarmac he's such an incredible human being I want to thank secretary of state Sarah Godlusky
chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party Ben Wickler
and my dear dear friend senator Tammy Baldwin
I served with Tammy when I was in the United States Senate I'm a tell you she was always always
always fighting for the people of this state and in November we are going to re-elect her to the
United States Senate and please give it up one more time for Wisconsin's own bony bear
it's a good afternoon it's a good afternoon and let me say I also want to just I want to bring
greetings from our incredible presidential Biden he loves Wisconsin he loves Wisconsin and I know
we are all deeply grateful for his lifetime of service to our nation and for all he continues to do
that's right
thank you
that's right I'm going to tell him what you said
so Wisconsin this has been a big week I'm Monday I officially became the Democratic nominee for
president of the United States
and yesterday I announced my running maintenance campaign governor Tim Walls
and as you just heard in the Minnesotans here no Tim has an incredible record as governor of the
great state of Minnesota
and to those who know him best Tim is more than a governor to his wife Gwen he is a husband
to his kids hope and Gus he is dad to his fellow fellow veterans he is Sergeant Major Walls
to the people of southern Minnesota for 12 years he was a congressman
to his former high school students he was Mr. Walls
and to his former high school football players he was coach coach
and in 90 days the nation will know coach Walls by a new title
vice president of the United States of America
oh it really is good to be back in Wisconsin
so listen let me tell you I am clear the path to the White House runs right through this state
and with your help we will win in November we are going to win we are going to win
and I've been here many times as you all know recently and even before and many of you know then
before I was elected vice president before I was elected United States Senator I was an
elected attorney general and before that and elected district attorney and before that
and before that I was a courtroom prosecutor
so in those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds predators who abused women
fraudsters who ripped off consumers scammers who broke the rules for personal gain
so hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's tight
I know his tight
in fact I've been dealing with people like him my whole career
for example as attorney general of California well hold on you know what the courts are going
to handle that part of it but what we're going to do is beat him in November
so I'll tell you as attorney general I took on one of our country's largest
for profit colleges that scammed students well Donald Trump ran a for profit college that scammed
students as a prosecutor I specialized in cases of sexual abuse well Donald Trump was
found liable for committing sexual abuse as attorney general I held the big wall street banks
accountable for fraud well Donald Trump was just found guilty of fraud 34 counts
so in this campaign I'll tell you I will probably put my record against his any day of the week
any day of the week
but let's make no mistake this campaign is not just about us versus Donald Trump
it's about two very different visions for our nation two very different visions
one for us focused on the future the other focused on the past and Wisconsin we we hear we fight
for the future we fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to join a union
we fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity
a future where we build a broad-based economy and one where every American has the opportunity
to own a home to start a business to build wealth
and understand in this fight as Tim Walls likes to point out we are joyful warriors joyful warriors
because we know that while fighting for a brighter future maybe hard work hard work is good work hard
work is good work and so we will continue to fight for affordable housing for affordable health care
affordable childcare and paid leave
we believe in a future where we lower the cost of living for America's families
so that they have a chance not just to get by but to get ahead
because while our economy is doing well by many measures prices for everyday things like groceries
are still too high you know it and I know it you know when I was a attorney general I went after
price fixing schemes and when I am president it will be a day one priority to fight to bring down
prices I will take on big corporations that engage in illegal price gouging I will take on
corporate landlords that unfairly raise rents on working families I will take on big pharma and
cap the cost of prescription drugs for all Americans and continue to bring manufacturing jobs
back to America and back to communities like oh Claire
so all this is to say strengthening our economy and building up the middle class will be a defining
goal of my presidency because you see coach walls and I know when America's middle class is strong
America is strong and as we work to move our nation forward Donald Trump
intends to take our nation backward
there is so much evidence of that point there really is but look at most recently project 2025
in that agenda project 2025 you know if you have some time to take a look at it I'm telling you
it is a plan to weaken the middle class it is a plan to weaken the middle class if he is elected
Donald Trump intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations
he intends to cut social security and Medicare
he intends to surrender our fight against the climate crisis and he intends to end the
Affordable Care Act
and because we all remember what it was like before the Affordable Care Act we understand what
that means that's about taking us back to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny
people with pre-existing conditions you remember that what that was like when we're not going back
we are not going back we're not going back
not going back but in order to know where we need to go let's remember
the past and what that was like because we cannot forget on that point about the ACA remember
people with pre-existing conditions being denied children with asthma breast cancer survivors
grandparents with diabetes that was no joke and we cannot go back hours has to be a fight for
the future and a fight for freedom a fight for freedom across our nation we have been witnessing
a full-on assault against hard fought hard won freedoms and rights the freedom to vote the
freedom to be safe from gun violence the freedom to breathe clean air and drink clean water the freedom
to love who you love openly and with pride and the freedom of a woman to make decisions about
her own body and not have her government telling her what to do
and let's remember let's remember the traditions of our great country generations of Americans before us
led in the fight for freedom and now then as they would expect the baton is in our hands the
baton is in our hands each and every one of us so we then who believe in the sacred freedom to vote
will finally pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the freedom to vote and
we who believe in the freedom to live safe from gun violence will finally pass universal background
checks red flag laws and an assault weapons ban we who believe in reproductive freedom will fight
for a woman's right to choose and we remember that when he was president Donald Trump
hand picked three members of the United States Supreme Court the Court of Thurgood and RBG
because he intended for them to overturn Roe v. Wade and as he intended they did
and now more than 20 states in our country have a Trump abortion ban many with no exceptions even
for rape and incest and if he wins we all know he will sign a national abortion ban to outlaw
abortion in every state even in Wisconsin but we are not going to let that happen
because we trust women
and when I am president of the United States and when Congress passes a bill to restore the
protections of Roe v. Wade I will sign it into law
thank you all so listen everyone took time out of your busy lives and days and all your
obligations to come out here and to be together as one community and I know you did it
also because we all know listen so much is on the line in this election it can't be said seriously
enough so much is on the line and compounded with everything else that we knew was on the line
think about the fact that last month the United States Supreme Court basically told the former
president who has been convicted of fraud that going forward he will be immune no matter what
he does in the White House think about what that means and the change circumstances since 16620
when you think about what that court decision means Donald Trump has openly vowed if re-elected
he will be a dictator on day one that he would weaponize the Department of Justice against his
political enemies then he would round up peaceful protesters and throw them out of our country
and even quote terminate the United States Constitution
so let us be clear let us be clear someone who suggests we should terminate the constitution of
the United States should never again have a chance to stand behind the seal of the president
of the United States
so basically I think it all comes down to this we're all here because we love our country
we love our country we love our country and I do believe it is the highest form of patriotism
to fight for the ideals of our country and that's how we preserve the promise of America
because after all the promise of America is what makes it possible by the way for
Governor Waltz and me to stand on this stage today just think about it two middle class kids
one a daughter of Oakland, California who was raised by a working mother and had a summer job at McDonald's
the other a son of the Nebraska planes who grew up working on a farm think about that
only in America is it possible for them together to make it all the way together to the White House
only in America only in America
so this is a fight to make real the promise of America for every person in our nation
and also I'll tell you and I promise you our campaign is going to reach out to everyone
from red states from blue states from the heartland to the coast we are running a campaign on
behalf of all Americans and when elected we will govern on behalf of all Americans
because coach walls and I know and we're clear about this unlike the other side we work for you
we work for you the American people and we will always fight for you for your family for your
freedoms and for your future so Wisconsin ultimately this election is about a question that we
each face we each face a question in this election and that is what kind of country do we want to
live in do we want to live in a country of freedom of compassion of rule of law or a country
of chaos fear and hate and the beauty of our democracy is we each have the power individually
and collectively we each have the power in a democracy to answer that question
the power is with the people the power is with the people
so in the next 90 days we need you to use your power we need you to knock on doors we need you to
register folks to vote we need you to energize and organize and mobilize and make your voices heard
and I'll tell you about an hour ago after I landed on Air Force 2 I met a collection of young
leaders from Girl Scout troop 3307 oh they were spectacular all they were spectacular none of them
hide all of the three feet they are they just they were spectacular and one of those young leaders had
a shirt on that said you are powerful and your voice matters right from the mouths of baves they're
telling us they're telling us and so let's remember that let's remember our power let's
remember our voice matters and with that then I ask are you ready to make your voices heard
do we believe in freedom do we believe in opportunity do we believe in the promise of America
and oh we're ready to fight for it and when we fight we win God bless you and God bless you and hide in states of America
oh
thanks president Kamala Harris speaking to a rather large crowd in just north of
oh Claire at the site of a former country music festival grounds and well the second day of the
kickoff of the Harris walls ticket and the campaign now in full swing the two of them waving to
a very large crowd of supporters the biggest that by far that I can recall this year for a democratic
presidential stop and a very enthusiastic crowd Kamala Harris who took over the range of the tickets
when president Biden stepped aside a couple of weeks ago and Tim Walls the governor of Minnesota
longtime congressman before that and in his own backyard literally in western Wisconsin just a
hop up from Minnesota and a large enthusiastic crowd and setting a tone look matters I think we
can expect to hear for much of the rest of the campaign yeah Terry and I may be wrong but this
may be one of the largest events of the cycle so far for either side that's already so we have not
yet got an official head count but some of the overhead video looks that there may be in the
thousands of how many attendees uh Mr. Zomers we do have an official head count yes according to
James Kelly our reporter on the scene he says the crowd estimate from the campaign staff is 12,000
12,000 I was guessing around 10 I think when we were looking at videos so I want to say who
was who a beer that no but no wages were that was just my rough guess the the picture that I saw
so I really hope that you didn't send James out there with that clicker for all 12,000 but
the sizable crowd for for the event as you said the day after Walls was announced yesterday
in Pennsylvania that he would be the running mate for vice president Kamala Harris and Terry we
also had news that when the the vice president's plane touchdown in O'Clair JD Vance the vice
presidential nominee for the Republican ticket touchdown at the same time at the tarmac so we
we saw some of the reporting earlier today JD Vance came up to the press pool outside of Air Force 2
and and seemingly made reference to hoping that it would be soon his plane this time next year
or making those kind of remarks but addressing the the pool of reporters outside of Air Force 2
saying that they may have been lonely because the vice president as he alleges hasn't been
taking questions very often in her time now as the presumptive democratic nominee some
gamesmanship I think we maybe can expect some more of that out on the campaign trail as as the
campaign goes on and we're going to be hearing much more of the comments between what was said
today at the Harris rally we'll have more coverage of what JD Vance had to say to reporters early
in O'Clair which was an event that apparently a lot of people got turned away from our where it
was a smaller more closed event than some people anticipated we'll be hearing more about that
including our own civic media Melissa K well yes there were the opportunity on how
you know we as reporters care a great deal about things that that maybe general listeners don't
but yes we were declined our request for credentials due to be inside the event well I think
important to note that we we try to cover both the directs in person yes and so this this rally
a little bit of a different tone compared to the event that US Senator JD Vance and Republican
vice presidential nominee Vance held in O'Clair this afternoon so it's it's very telling I think
we're we're hearing portions of a stump speech for both of these candidates both governor Tim
Walsh and vice president Kamal Harris her being on the trail for the past two and a half weeks now
about 17 days since becoming the presumptive nominee governor Walsh much shorter briefer period
but similar remarks made today here in O'Clair Wisconsin as he made yesterday in Philadelphia
it's going to be interesting as these two they now are going to be leaving Wisconsin heading to
other swing states how the message resonates with voters not just here in in Wisconsin but
around the battleground states a part of the message I think we'll keep hearing is the vice
president calling her running mate coach Walsh I think that's how she's going to refer to him pretty
generally from here on I would not be shocked that if the circumstances made it themselves already
the secret service code name maybe in the works there absolutely absolutely so we want to thank
everyone who hung in there with us all afternoon for our special coverage of the speech got started
a little later than we thought but we hope the analysis was definitely worth worth your while
and we hope you brought you some good information as well as some flavor of what was said today
in O'Clair and of course our analysts the devil's advocates are standing by on many of our stations
and I'm sure they'll have plenty to say yes the devil's advocate is going to be kicking off here on
WMDX and Madison Maggie Don Show is going to be across the rest of the network for the remainder of
the three o'clock hour with James Santel former U.S. Attorney Philanon for Maggie for that three o'clock
block with the devil's taking over for the civic media radio network beginning at four I want to
thank mr. Todd Alba and his efforts for broadcasting live from location this afternoon as well as
James Kelly civic media reporter and Pat Crite Low trig the Olsen mr. Aaron Zommers and everybody
else that made the special broadcast go out for Luke Mathers I'm Terry Bell thank you for joining
our special coverage return you to our regular scheduled programing
