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    Women will send a “clear message” to Donald Trump, Tim Walz said in the final presentation in Arizona

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    TUCSON – Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said women “will send a loud and clear message to Donald Trump” on Tuesday during his final visit to Arizona, targeting a key bloc of voters that Vice President Kamala Harris is counting on to White was winning. House.

    “We just trust women,” Walz said Saturday night in Tucson. “Across the country, in every age, in every foundation, in every political party, that those women will send a message loud and clear to Donald Trump on November 5th. Whether he likes it or not.”

    Walz appeared in Arizona for the last time before Election Day as the 2024 presidential race entered its final hours. Harris and former President Donald Trump are locked in a contentious battle for the White House in the battleground state of Arizona, where 11 Electoral College votes are up for grabs on Tuesday.

    Arizona polls give Trump a slight edge in the state, which he lost nearly four years ago to President Joe Biden. But those polls also show a big gender differenceHarris leading among women and Trump getting more support from men in Arizona.

    “Donald said if you are a woman he will be your protector. He can’t even open the door of a garbage truck,” Walz said, referencing Trump’s recent claim that “whether women like it or not, I’m going to protect them.”

    More than 1.2 million Arizonans have already cast their ballots in the historic election between Trump and Harris, including many who saw Walz speak outside Tucson Magnet High School.

    “It may be hard for a group of you who came here today to believe it, but there are still some people who aren’t quite sure what they’re going to do in this election,” Walz said, imploring supporters to knock on doors and make phone calls. in the next three days.

    Arizona’s Harris campaign turned its attention to areas where early voting lagged, such as South Tucson and South Phoenix, to pitch voters on Tuesday. Volunteers and campaign staff had knocked on 53,000 doors across Arizona by midday Saturday.

    Walz noted that Arizona, an 11-electoral-vote battleground, could have a significant impact on the outcome of the race. President Joe Biden won here by less than 11,000 votes four years ago and turned the state blue for the first time since 1996.

    “We are winning. Now, notice I didn’t say we won,” Walz said. “We know that in Arizona, a vote or two per district could be what it takes to win the entire race for the state.”

    Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra struck a similar tone when he spoke to the crowd ahead of Walz, calling the race a “nail-biter.”

    The visit marked the second Saturday in a row that Walz has gotten Harris in Arizona. He visited Flagstaff in the early afternoon before coming to Tucson to make his final pitch for the Democratic presidential ticket.

    Walz focused on corporate price gouging, health care protections, abortion rights and preventing gun violence during his 25-minute speech.

    Walz also took a dig at Trump’s policy proposals and his character, saying Trump’s phone screen background is a picture of him and “should tell you where he’s at.”

    “You would have thought, in his almost 80 years on earth, and being this genius, what he calls a ‘stable genius,’ and he went to the Wharton School, which he tells us, you’d be thought he would. I found out by now what the hell the rate was. Because Donald Trump is out there saying, ‘Oh, we’re going to put a tariff on all this stuff, and the Chinese are going to pay for it,'” Walz said. “Nobody’s buying that.”

    Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords also appeared on stage in their hometowns. Kelly took aim at House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., for saying this week that the GOP may try to repeal the CHIPS and Science Act. Johnson later declined to comment.

    “If they have the chance, they’re going after CHIPS and the Science Act that brings, take that, folks, it’s bringing billions of dollars of investment and tens of thousands of jobs to our state,” Kelly said.

    About 120 miles north of Tucson, Trump’s running mate JD Vance appeared in Arizona on Saturday for a rally in Scottsdale, where he linked immigration to the state’s economic problems.

    Despite Walz’s upbeat attitude about the stump, many voters who attended his rally expressed concern about the upcoming election.

    That was the case for Sara Jacobs, 46, who lives in Tucson and had the 2020 election on her mind.

    “I was very concerned about the last election, when we didn’t, we had the former sitting president trying to block the peaceful transfer of power,” Jacobs said. “So that’s probably the thing I’m most concerned about with this election.”

    “Our democracy is at stake. And it sounds so dramatic, but it really is,” said Linda Becerril, 59, who attended the rally with Claudia Becerril. Both said they felt energized and hopeful after hearing Walz on the stump.

    Claudia Becerril interned in Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain’s office when she was younger and remembers discussing issues with people across party lines as a teenager. She complained that she couldn’t do it anymore.

    “It’s very worrying having my own daughters, that now we’re starting at a point where you can’t have a conversation with someone,” said Claudia Becerril.

    Tucson resident Ajani de Roock, 19, has already voted for Harris and convinced two of her friends to register to vote. He supports the vice president “because she’s not Donald Trump” and she represents “a way forward.”

    “She’s not a do-nothing Democrat,” he said.

    Still, de Roock is looking forward as Tuesday looms.

    “I saw polls last night, I couldn’t sleep because of them,” he said. “That was showing Trump a step forward in Arizona. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but it really worries me a lot.”

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