Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz calls in to talk about her husband’s run for vice president and what makes her great-grandmother’s cookie recipe so popular. Courier Newsroom national correspondent Keya Vakil talks about the widening gap between the unity sounded by Kamala Harris and the dark rhetoric of Donald Trump—plus a reminder not to let long lines at the polls or late-night vote counting discourage anyone from voting and having confidence in the results.

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