Gov. Tim Walz speaks in Wilmington on Thursday October 24. (Screengrab from CSPAN video feed)
Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, in the final stretch before Election Day, encouraged North Carolinians to go vote during a rally in Wilmington on Thursday.
It’s the latest visit to the Tar Heel State in an increasingly frequent series of trips by presidential candidates and their surrogates. The Minnesota governor was in North Carolina last Thursday as well for political stops in Durham and Winston-Salem.
Walz told the Wilmington audience about how he and his family had gone out to vote the day before in Minnesota. It was his 18-year-old son Gus’ first time voting.
“It is going to come down to the battleground states, probably none more important than North Carolina,” Walz said. “One or two votes per precinct will be enough to win this thing.”
More than 1 million votes have been cast so far in North Carolina, where early voting opened last week and runs until Nov. 2.
Walz, known for his lighthearted humor and sharp digs — he’s credited for framing the GOP as “weird” — used his time on the stage to poke fun at former President Donald Trump.