I went to Miles ELC from kindergarten to eighth grade.
Then I went to Tucson High where I graduated last year.
Let's go, Badgers, guys.
Now I'm a proud student at the University of Arizona, working toward my criminal justice degree with hopes to be a U.S. Marshal.
Arizona has always been my home, and I've never felt more inspired by the energy that's sweeping through our state.
People are fired up to support Vice President Harris and Governor Waltz in this election.
That's why, for the first time ever, I'm casting my vote for them.
This is more than a campaign.
It's a movement bringing people together from all different walks of life.
To make our voices heard, everyone here needs to help.
These last three days are crucial, so please knock on doors, make calls, and mobilize your neighbors because we believe in this for a better future.
Vice President Harris is ready to lead.
She has the experience, the strength, and the conviction to protect our freedoms and our democracy.
Governor Tim Waltz shares the same passion.
As a teacher, coach, and a veteran, he's delivered working-class families just like the ones I grew up here in Tucson.
Together, Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz are ready to fight for what matters most, protecting our freedoms, securing our futures, and delivering results for all Americans.
I'm proud to support them, and I'm asking everyone here to join me.
Let's make sure Arizona is on board.
Let's make history together, guys.
All right, is everybody ready?
And without further ado, please join me in welcoming our next vice president of the United States of America, Governor Tim Walz.
At the Danish mountain, the small community.
All my friends is a small town.
While my family lived in the same small town.
Wow!
Well, it's good to be back in Tucson.
Can we just all agree that our future is bright with leadership like Orlando?
Diana, give him a big shout out.
Truly grateful.
Also, it's a privilege to be here with someone I went into the 2006 class of the United States Congress with with Gabby Giffords.
And Gabby Giffords is saving lives across this country, the work she's doing, and we owe her a deep debt of gratitude.
Good to be back with Senator Mark Kelly.
This guy has had one day off in the last nine weeks.
He is out there across the country doing this.
Last Saturday, I had the privilege to be with him at Window Rock and an invitation to be on the Navajo Nation, and I am grateful for that.
Glad to be on a ticket with Vice President Harris and myself, who understand that tribal sovereignty is the law of the land, and to honor that self-determination is a core principle.
I think you saw him earlier.
Another guy got to serve in Congress, but I want to be very clear whether it was helping get the Affordable Care Act passed through Congress or protecting our health every day.
Javier Becera is a champion of the health of this country.
And I save my final thanks.
I'm a Minnesota and it snowed this weekend, people, so you know.
So I'm sitting here thinking it is Saturday afternoon on a beautiful day, and you came here because you love America.
thank you.
And as Bruce Springsteen always says, it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.
I'm glad you're all here.
Well done, people.
Well, not that anybody's counting, folks, but we got three days to an election.
Three days to make an impact, not just on the next four years, but on the next 40 years.
Not just for us, but on future generations.
Not just for this country, but for the world.
And here's the good news.
We're winning.
We're winning.
Now, notice, I didn't say we've won because there's work to do.
It may be hard for a group of you who came here today to believe it, but there's still some folks who aren't quite sure what they're going to do in this election.
Now, some of them, you've talked to them, they're friends, neighbors, family members, and they tell you this.
They're speaking honestly.
Well, you know, I really don't like Donald Trump's personality and the stuff he does.
And you're like, oh, no, shit.
Yeah.
I understand why you wouldn't.
But then they say, but I liked his economy that he had.
That's the point.
It's a little bit hazy.
People get busy.
There's a lot of stuff going on.
So let's just level set what the Donald Trump economy looked like.
2.7 million jobs lost.
Unemployment up.
And the way he botched the COVID pandemic, tens of thousands of Americans died unnecessarily.
The rest of us were out there in battles to try and find hand sanitizer and toilet paper is how bad things got.
So if you think back, that economy that they liked, if you were a billionaire or a millionaire, you might have liked it because you got a tax cut.
The rest of us got squat during that time because that's how Donald Trump thinks.
He doesn't spend time thinking about ways to improve your life.
In fact, he doesn't spend any time thinking about you.
I saw something, something every day with this guy, but I saw something that was very telling.
You know, on your phone, you got your lock screen where your puppy's on there or your kids or your car for some of us, I'll admit, you know, you get that on there.
Not Donald Trump.
He's got a picture of himself on there.
It's true.
That ought to tell you where he's at.
Now, look, I understand 72 hours is going to have a big impact.
We've got work to do yet.
This thing is not deciding it's going to be close.
You know it better than anybody.
This thing very well could be won in the state of Arizona.
So if you're stressed and you turn it on and you're on the polar coaster, oh, we're winning.
Oh, we're losing.
Oh, we're winning.
Or you're getting the 15,000 emails to send money and things.
Do some of those.
You don't have to do them all, but give on some of those.
But the remedy to this is it's very simple.
go out and vote for Kamala Harris for president.
These guys know the assignment.
They know the assignment.
Look, how many of you have voted?
All right, it works wonders.
And if you voted, you need to take somebody else.
And instead of ringing your hands, ring the doorbells, ring the doorbells to people, pick up the phone and call some people.
Look, we've got a golden opportunity here to turn the page on Donald Trump.
There's lots of reasons to win this, but be honest, each of you.
It's not pity.
Just be honest with yourself.
How damn happy will you be and how good will it feel to turn on your TV and not see this guy again?
And just not see this guy again.
And how great will the alternative be when we have a new generation of leadership in a President Kamala Harris?
Look, it's about getting things done.
Here in Arizona, created 370,000 jobs under the Biden-Harris administration.
She's offering a new way forward.
And you saw it, and the world saw it on Tuesday night.
That is how a president talks standing in the ellipse on the national mall.
She talked about being a president for all.
She talked about bringing in different voices.
And she said on the first day in the White House, she will go in there with a to-do list to improve your lives, not an enemies list to go after those you disagree.
And right off the top, she said it.
Lowering the cost of living and putting more money back into the pockets of middle-class people.
That is the goal.
She talked about, and some of you have heard this, enact the first federal price gouging ban.
Now, the teacher in me can't pass up an opportunity to explain why that means.
37 states have this.
Let me give you a couple examples.
I was with a farmer the other day in Erie, Pennsylvania, grows corn, potatoes, and has some cattle.
And I asked him, I said, so what are you getting for a bushel of corn these days?
And he said, oh, about $4.10 a bushel.
And I said, so when grocery prices were cheaper, what were you getting for a bushel of corn?
About $4.10,000.
The farmers aren't making the money in this.
You're paying more.
And the only thing that changed in this equation was corporate profits are at a record high.
That's what price gouging looks like.
Now, another example happened when we had a Hurricane Helene coming in.
And they put out notice to people in the Southeast, especially in Florida, you should leave as quickly as you can.
Wow, it was really weird because right after they said that, airline prices went through the roof.
That's not capitalism.
That's unethical.
And this is what a ban on corporate price gouging stops.
And let's be clear: 100 million Americans will see a tax cut under a President Harris's plan, specifically focused on a child tax credit, $6,000 to families in that child's first year of life.
When we did that, when we did that during the COVID pandemic, we reduced childhood poverty by half, the greatest reduction in American history.
This is the surest and the best way to reduce childhood poverty and get our children off to a good start.
That's what we'll do.
And it was Kamala Harris that made sure our seniors that they cap the price of a month's worth of insulin at $35.
This is my third lesson on price gouging.
She wants to extend that to all Americans.
And the reason is we did it in Minnesota because we had a young man named Alex Smith.
And Alex turned 26.
He aged off his parents' insurance.
He started rationing his insulin and he died.
His mom, Nicole, came to the Capitol in St. Paul and said no family should ever have to go through this grief again.
And she helped us pass a cap of $35 on insulin for everybody in Minnesota.
Kamala wants to extend that across the country, but let me give you the last closer on that.
Before we put that cap on there, pharmaceutical companies were charging up to $800 for that vial of insulin.
And the real reason to boo is it costs $5 to manufacture.
Look, these are things we can do to improve people's lives.
Kamala put out a plan that those of you, the older folks in here, you'll get it.
If you're young, trust me, you don't spend a lot of time thinking about Medicare, but when you turn 60, you start thinking about it about half the day.
Medicare and Social Security are two of the best anti-poverty programs we've ever developed in this country.
They're critical.
And we can make them better by having Medicare pay for home health care and keep our seniors and our parents in their homes longer.
The seniors will tell you this too.
Medicare today doesn't pay for vision or hearing.
We'll make sure under Kamala's plan that you can get your glasses and your hearing aids if you need them under Medicare.
My nearly 90-year-old mom got her hearing aids a few years ago.
She's a hell of a lot more fun now that she can hear us.
So it's a lot better.
And this idea of home ownership.
Home ownership is generational wealth for us.
It's the most important thing that we buy.
It provides security for our families, but we know how difficult it is.
Vice President Harris has proposed not only creating 3 million more new units of affordable housing, but making sure everybody has access to a $25,000 down payment assistance help.
That gets you in the door.
You want to start a small business?
The average small business costs about $40,000 to get off the ground to have your American dream.
We give a $5,000 tax credit right now for that.
That's not enough.
Kamala Harris is proposing a $50,000 tax credit to small business owners to get them off the ground.
Now that's a bit of our plan and it's not a concept of a plan.
It's a real plan.
And when asked, how will we pay for this?
For starters, we can have Donald Trump pay his federal tax for a change.
This is how you enhance the middle class.
This is how you grow the economy.
This is how what we say in Minnesota, the economy works best when you think about it this way.
We all do better when we all do better.
It's as simple as that.
Now, not everybody thinks that way.
Donald Trump and JD Vance, they've got a little bit different plan.
And it is a little more than a concept of a plan because they took the time to put it in a 900-page book.
It's called Project 2025.
They were like, what is that?
I've never heard of it.
You know how they do that?
When everybody found out how crappy it was, they're like, oh, don't know them, don't know, never seen them.
That's whatever it was.
They know exactly what they did.
I coached football long enough to know you draw up a playbook, you're going to run the plays that are in it.
And this playbook is a damn nightmare for the middle class.
Here's just a couple things.
The first thing they're going to do is repeal two of the best job creators and modernization programs we've seen in a generation.
The bipartisan infrastructure law that invested in America and the Inflation Reduction Act that moves us towards a clean energy economy and innovation for the future.
Those are hundreds of thousands of jobs, good paying union jobs across this country that sustain families.
they want to repeal him now you would have thought in here's nearly 80 years on earth and being this genius what he called himself a stable genius and he went to the wharton school which is what he tells us you would have thought he would have learned what a damn tariff was by now Because Donald Trump is out there saying, oh, we'll put a tariff on all this stuff and the Chinese will pay for it.
No one buys that.
Because what we know and the economists know is when you put a tariff on it, and companies like Back and Decker and Columbia and others said this this week, we will simply raise prices.
You will end up paying 20% more or $4,000 a year.
That's what it'll mean.
So look.
I think, especially here in Arizona, you remember when the Republican Party used to talk about freedom, they meant it.
This guy is not John McCain's Republican Party.
He is not.
He means government should have the freedom to be in your exam room, to be in your bedroom, to tell you what books to read and make those decisions.
You know what it was, and we've all said it.
If they just mind their own damn business, we'll mind our own damn business.
And that's the way this works.
Kamala has been clear.
When she and I talk about freedom, we mean people should be free to make these decisions, not politicians.
No politicians, especially Donald Trump.
Freedom means that seniors should be free to retire with dignity when we strengthen Social Security and Medicare, not cutting them as they proposed.
And you know it in Arizona, and Gabby Giffords talks about it, the freedom to send our little ones to school without being shot dead in their classrooms.
And don't take the bait on this.
I know guns.
Many of you here know them.
I'm a veteran.
I'm a hunter.
I'm a gun owner.
Kamala's a gun owner.
We understand that you can stand up and protect the Second Amendment while also upholding our first responsibility, protecting our children, protecting our children.
Now let me talk to the guys that are here that they're getting it.
For a moment, just think about those women in your life who you love, your mother, sister, partners, wives, neighbors, those people, daughters that we all have.
Think about them.
Think about them in your life.
Because of what Donald Trump did, he appointed three Supreme Court justices who took away 52 years of protections so that those women in your life now have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers had.
He brags about it.
20 states now have Trump abortion bans, including Arizona.
He's just getting started because this week he told us he would appoint RFK Jr. to be in charge of women's health.
He said, he said, Donald said, that if you're a woman, he'll be your protector.
He can't even open the door of a garbage truck, let alone do this.
But look, look, the one thing is, if this guy were a comedian or he were a stand-up comic or something, it might be marginally funny.
But because he could be President of the United States again, it's deathly serious.
And he added, he added to the women after he told you to be the protector, I'm going to do it whether the women like it or not.
Now, and here's what we're seeing.
Women are turned away from emergency rooms and miscarriaging in parking lots, whether they like it or not.
Survivors of rape are being forced to carry those pregnancies to term, whether they like it or not.
Fertility clinics have turned couples away at the door, whether they like it or not.
For so many of us, me included, this is personal.
Gwen and I spoke about our struggles with infertility.
It was because of those fertility treatments that we were able to have our beautiful family.
And I will be damned if anyone in this country should be denied the opportunity that we had.
So when we win back the House of Representatives and Arizona elects Ruben Gallego to the Senate and we pass the restoration of reproductive freedoms.
President Harris will sign it into law.
Some of this stuff is pretty simple.
The mind your own damn business.
We all do better and we all do better.
The other one is Kamala and I have a pretty simple principle here.
We simply trust women.
And that fixes a lot of it.
Now, and I'll tell you what, I also have a feeling that all across this country, every age, every background, every political party, that those women are going to send a loud and clear message to Donald Trump on November 5th, whether he likes it or not.
We're not going back.
Arizona, I'm here on behalf of Kamala Harris and myself to humbly ask you for your vote and the work over the next 72 hours to get this done.
72 hours, but here's the deal.
Momentum is on our side, but we take nothing for granted, nothing for granted.
And being in this setting in a high school, I'm not going to pass this up.
Here's the deal, folks.
Here's the deal, folks.
Two minutes left in this game.
We got the damn ball.
We got the best quarterback on the field in Kamala Harris.
We all here know there'll be plenty of time to sleep when you're dead.
Not now.
Not now.
We know in Arizona, a vote or two per precinct could be what it takes to win the whole damn race for the country.
And all of you, the older folks will get this, younger folks, trust me, there'll come a day, someday you're going to be sitting on that porch, you're going to be in that rocking chair, and a little one's going to come up to you after been in school where they've been studying the 2024 election.
And they're going to ask, when everything was on the line and the American experiment was on the line, and there was somebody running who asked to be a dictator and to overturn the Constitution and talk about using the military against our own people.
What did you do to stop that from happening?
And you're going to be able to say every damn thing we could.
Every damn thing we could.
So here's the deal.
Make a plan to vote.
Make a plan to get out in Canvas.
Make a plan to take a neighbor to the polls.
Polls are open here, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
That puts us at about 73 and a half hours, folks, to get this thing done.
If you still have a mail-in ballot, get it in the drop box.
Look, don't wait.
iwillvote.com/slash AZ to find your polling place.
When?
When can you ever imagine having 75 hours to make an impact on the planet for generations to come?
To make an impact to uphold decency and kindness and show grace to your neighbors.
When can we tackle our biggest problems, income inequality, making sure women have reproductive rights and autonomy over their own bodies, and addressing things like climate change?
It's ours to do.
We're going to vote.
We're going to win, but I'm going to ask you this.
Arizona, win this thing for America.
Let's go.
Let's go.
And I knew in a small town.
I've been dying in a small town of a small community.
All my friends is a small town.
My parents live in the same small town.
My job is a small town.
Jesus in a small town.
Used to daydream in that small town.
Another foreign romantic at me.
But I've seen it all in a small town.
And myself was all in a small town.
Man in LA down right to this small town.
We're a small town just like me.
Oh, I cannot forget somewhere it is that I come from.
Count fit for people who love me.
Yeah, I could be myself here in this small town.
People let me be just what I want to be.
Still hate seat enough to say, look who's in the big town.
But my faith is in a small town.
Oh, that's good enough for me.
I was born in a small town, and I can breathe in a small town.
Gonna die in a small town on a property world that failed in me.
Leaving home out on the road.
I've been down before riding along on this big old death plane.
I've been thinking about my home.
But my love light seems so far away.
And I feel like it's all been done.
Somebody's trying to make me stay.
You know, I've got to be moving on.
Oh, they're gonna chat at a line of Don't carry me too far away.
Oh, they're gonna chat at a line up.
Cause it's here and I've got to stay.
Goodbye to all my friends at home.
Goodbye to people I've trusted.
I've got to go out and make my way.
I might get rich, you know.
I might get busted.
But my heart keeps calling me backwards as I get on the seven or seven.
Right, and I've gotten tears in my eyes.
You know, you got to go through hell before you get to heaven.
Big old chat and a light up.
Don't carry me too far away.
Oh, big old chat and a light up.
Cause it's here that I've got to stay.
Touching down in New Raymond town.
Feel like coming down.
I've got to keep on keeping on.
You know, the big wheel keeps us spinning around.
And I'm going with some major division.
You know that I can surely see that I don't want to get caught up in any of that.
Funky shit going down in the city.
Big old chat and a light up.
Don't carry me too far away.
Oh, big old chat and a line up.
Cause it's here that I've got to stay.
Oh, big old chat and a light up.
Don't carry me too far away.
Oh, big old chat and a light up.
Cause it's here that I've got to stay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Big old chat and light up.
Don't carry me too far away.
Oh, big old chat and a light up.
Cause it's here that I've got to stay.
Oh, big old chat and a light up.
Carry me to my home.
Oh, big old chat and a light up.
Cause it's there that I belong.
I just wanna be free.
I just wanna be free.
Gotta be free from all the hurt.
Gotta be free from all the pain.
I want everything lonely I want.
I'm lonely, damn.
And some news from the Democratic ticket.
Vice President Kamala Harris has changed her itinerary tonight and will fly to New York City to appear on tonight's edition of Saturday Night Live.
This is one of several campaign events for Tim Walz today.
Earlier, he visited Nevada with stops in Las Vegas and Henderson.
He later spoke to supporters in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Watch all of those appearances online at c-span.org.