Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday praised Vice President Kamala Harris’ debate performance, while warning Michigan voters that the fight to win battleground states is not over.
The Democratic vice presidential candidate said Harris “commanded the room” on Tuesday at the ABC News presidential debate. “Let’s be very clear, none of us were surprised at what happened there,” and saying “no pun intended” that Harris had the “upper hand” from the start, referencing the vice president initiating a handshake with her GOP rival.
As former President Donald Trump says there will not be another presidential debate, Walz said he thinks “hell, every day we should do another one,” though, he added, “it’s not going to happen.”
“Give him a little break. That one left a mark,” he joked about Trump, saying if you watched the debate with the sound off “you would have sworn that was a nearly 80-year-old man shaking his fist at clouds.
“This guy has spent his entire life focused on himself, obsessed with the past and the thing that is unforgivable, rooting against America and America’s people,” he said at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, adding that Trump “said a lot of weird stuff too.”
He asked the room if they had “eating cats” on their debate bingo cards. The crowd responded by chanting “we’re not eating cats” in the same cadence as the campaign’s now-signature “we’re not going back” chant.
His comments were in reference to a false rumor about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating their neighbors’ cats that Trump promoted at the debate.
