The Democratic ticket of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz should be cruising toward an easy victory over former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), according to the Democrat-aligned media, but the race is essentially tied with little more than a week to go until Election Day.
That unanticipated reality was acknowledged by Walz on Friday during a small campaign event in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in which he attempted to rally Democratic supporters to boost voter turnout, The Guardian reported.
Walz, harkening back to his history as a high school football assistant coach, delivered a sort of pep talk to encourage his ticket’s supporters to keep pressing on until the electoral fight was finished.
Friday night football references at a political rally
On Friday night, former coach Walz referenced the dozens of high school football games that were ongoing around Pennsylvania at that moment and used the sport as an analogy for the final stretch of the election while addressing the few hundred supporters who showed up for the rally at the Scranton Cultural Center.
“It’s going to be tight. It’s the fourth quarter. We have got the best team on the field. We got the ball driving down on the last drive to win this thing,” Walz said near the end of his speech, according to The Scranton Times-Tribune. […]
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