Campaigning this week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — again, Tim Walz, who is this year’s Democratic pick for vice president, went after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for the latter’s record on working people’s issues.
“He does know something about working people — Donald Trump does,” Walz told his enthusiastic crowd. “He knows how to take advantage of them. That’s what he knows how to do. Every single chance these guys have gotten, they’ve waged war on workers and the middle class. As president, Trump blocked overtime for millions of workers. Hell, why pay the bills? He doesn’t pay his own. Why should we pay somebody for overtime? […] That’s what they do. He opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage, for God’s sakes.”
Milwaukee is actually the same city where Republicans held their national convention in July and formalized this year’s already anticipated presidential nomination for Trump, with which the party forged ahead no matter his legal problems.
Walz and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris were also campaigning in Milwaukee on the same night that their own party’s national convention, held last month, formalized their general election nod.
Wisconsin moved from a victory for Trump in the 2016 presidential race to a win for Joe Biden four years later in the election that put the latter into the White House, and it remains an electoral battleground in this cycle. Wisconsin also has a U.S. Senate election on the ballot this year pitting Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin against Republican nominee Eric Hovde, who Trump endorsed.
Meanwhile, on Monday — which was Labor Day, Harris herself was also out campaigning. She appeared in Detroit, Michigan, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — joined by Biden, still the incumbent, at the second stop.
Gov. Walz: I will say this, Donald Trump does know one thing about working people. He knows how to take advantage of them! pic.twitter.com/GTFXYCwGYq
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 2, 2024
