Tim Walz talks about Pennsylvania jobs, lowering costs during Bucks County campaign stop
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz made his way back to Pennsylvania Thursday to stump for Kamala Harris as the countdown to Election Day winds down.
Walz, the Democratic candidate for vice president, spoke Thursday morning at the Boilermakers Local 13 Labor Hall in Bristol Township, Bucks County.
During his speech, Walz talked about employment and lowering costs for Americans while criticizing former President Donald Trump's tenure in the White House and the job market during his presidency.
"Four years ago with Donald Trump, we had lost 2.7 million jobs, including 275,000 jobs in Pennsylvania alone," Walz claimed. "Unemployment was way up, and Donald Trump had so badly botched the COVID pandemic we were out there fighting with our neighbors to get toilet paper."
Following the campaign event in Bucks County, Walz was scheduled to travel to Erie for what the Harris-Walz campaign described as a "local stop" later in the day. Vice President Kamala Harris is taking her appeal to the people to the battleground states of Arizona and Nevada Thursday.
Earlier this week, Bucks County was sued by the campaigns for former President Donald Trump and Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick after some voters were turned away from mail-in ballot voting on demand on Tuesday, Oct. 29.
The lawsuit alleged the county was engaging in voter suppression, and a judge ruled Wednesday that voters can able to apply for, receive, vote, and return a mail-in ballot until the close of business on Friday, Nov. 1.
On social media, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Republican and Democratic clerks of elections are working together with law enforcement to ensure only eligible voters are registered and can vote.
Walz was in the Delaware Valley last week to deliver remarks at a campaign fundraiser in Philadelphia. He also traveled to Allentown to meet with Latino voters before continuing to Scranton for a rally on Oct. 25.
Pennsylvania was also Walz's first stop after the vice presidential debate with Trump's running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance.
The candidates and their supporters have made numerous stops in Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia area in recent weeks, courting voters in a battleground state that has 19 Electoral College votes up for grabs on election night.
According to CBS News' latest estimates of voter support in the country's most competitive states, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are tied in Pennsylvania and tied or nearly tied in the remaining battlegrounds.