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Gwen Walz to campaign in 3 Arizona cities on Monday

Sep 15, 2024, 11:13 AM

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Gwen Walz will campaign in three Arizona cities on Sept. 16, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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PHOENIX — Gwen Walz, wife of Democratic vice presidential nominee candidate Tim Walz, will campaign in three Arizona cities on Monday.

Walz will make stops in Phoenix, Flagstaff and Kingman in support of her husband and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

Has Gwen Walz done campaign events in Arizona?

It’ll be Walz’s first campaign visit in the Grand Canyon State, but hardly the Democrats’ first during this election cycle.

Tim Walz was most recently in Arizona last Tuesday, when he appeared on stage in Mesa prior to the ABC News Presidential Debate between Harris and Donald Trump.

The vice presidential candidate spoke on gun violence, the economy and immigration.

“Going back to school is a joyous time, it should be a time of excitement, of hope but … for too many of our children, it’s a time of terror,” Walz said. “I know guns, I’m a veteran and I’m a hunter but, I will not allow them to make this about the Second Amendment when our first responsibility is to the safety of our children.”

Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, was in Arizona even more recently. He was in Tucson on Thursday and spoke on reproductive rights.

“One of the reasons why, is this issue of reproductive freedom and that Donald Trump and his little sidekick JD Vance … wants to continue this extremist crusade that none of us want,” Emhoff said. “The vast majority of Americans do not [want] to dismantle women reproductive rights and make women somehow less than, less than citizens and it’s just not fair and it cannot stand and it will not stand.”

Trump was also in Tucson on Thursday, speaking to reporters on the debate and tax exemptions.

“I was angry at the debate,” Trump said, mocking commentators’ description of his performance Tuesday. “And, yes, I am angry,” he said, because “everything is terrible” since Harris and President Joe Biden are “destroying our country.”

Upon his repeated use of the word “angry,” Trump’s crowd in Tucson answered with its own “USA! USA! USA!” chants.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Gwen Walz to campaign in 3 Arizona cities on Monday