So Arizona, Arizona, bring that joy with you,
bring those smiles, bring that positive future as you join
me in welcoming the next President of the United States.
I'm keep running
because the winner don't quit on themselves.
I'm away. I'm away to the waters till the time
don't
move.
We're going to do this.
Good evening. Good.
Thank you all. Thank you.
Can we hear it for 10 balls?
Oh, my goodness. Oh, it's good to be back in
Arizona.
Good evening, everyone.
Oh, my goodness. Thank you all so very much.
Oh, it is good to be back.
Let me just say, let me,
let me just start by thanking everyone
who is here. Thank you all so very much.
We're going
to do this. We are going to do this.
And I want to thank all of the incredible leaders
who are here,
including Congressman Greg Stanton,
your next United States Senator,
Congressman Ruben Gallego,
and my dear friend, United States Senator Mark Kelly.
And let me just say,
as Arizona knows, Mark is an extraordinary leader who has
dedicated his life to the service of our nation as
a fighter pilot,
as an astronaut, and as a member of the United
States Congress.
And he has given so much to our country.
He always fights for the people of Arizona.
And I am so grateful,
Mark, for your friendship and your leadership.
And of course the is phenomenal Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
There are also an incredible group of mayors with us
today,
Mayor Kate Gallego,
Mayor Corey Woods,
and Arizona Co Chair of Republicans for Harris Mayor John
Giles.
So today I also bring greetings from our incredible President,
Joe Biden.
And I know we are all deeply grateful for his
lifetime of service to our nation.
And we thank Joe Biden
each and every day
for all he is and all he is done and
all he has yet to do.
Let us thank him always.
So, Arizona, this has been a big week.
On Monday, I officially became the Democratic nominee for president
of the United States.
And on Tuesday, I announced my running mate in this
campaign,
Governor Tim Wong.
And as you all just heard,
Tim has a great record as governor of the great
state of Minnesota.
And to those who know him best,
Tim goes by a few more titles besides governor
to his wife, Gwen.
So
thank you.
So Tim. Tim, we know him by we know him
by governor.
But you'll soon get to know his wife,
Gwen, to whom you know what?
Hold on a second. Hold on.
Hold on. Hold on. Everybody.
Hold on. Hold on,
hold on. Here's the thing.
We are all in here together.
I'm, I'm told an extraordinary number of folks who are
here together because we love our country.
We're here to fight for our democracy,
which includes respecting the voices that I think that we
are hearing from.
And let me just say this on topic of what
I think I'm hearing over there.
Let me just speak to that for a moment and
then I'm going to get back to the business at
hand.
So let me say I have been clear.
Now is the time to get a ceasefire deal and
get the hostage.
Now
is the time. And the President and I are working
around the clock every day to get that ceasefire deal
done and bring the hostages home.
So I respect your voices.
But we are here to now talk about this race
in
2024.
So Tim Walz. So let's just say this,
besides being governor, the thing I've come to learn about
Tim Walz that you have known and may learn more,
he's an extraordinary person. He's known by many titles.
To his wife Gwen, he his husband.
To his kids Hope and Gus,
he is dad to the people of southern Minnesota.
For 12 years he was congressman.
To his former high school students,
he was Mr. Walls,
and to his former high school football players,
he was coach.
And in 88 days, the nation will know Coach Walls
by a new title,
vice president of the United States.
So it's so good to be back in Arizona.
And I thank you all for turning out today.
This is an extraordinary, extraordinary thing.
And Arizona also this say this,
as exciting as this is,
we cannot lose sight of a really important fact.
We are definitely running as the underdog.
We are the underdog. We are out in great numbers,
but we got a lot of work to do
and this is going to be hard work.
But I know we like hard work.
Hard work is good work for all of us.
Hard work is good work
and we will do it with joy.
And I know we are all clear about what we
are up against.
As many of you know,
before I was elected Vice president,
I was an elected United States Senator
before that.
Before that I was an elected Attorney general,
and before that an elected District Attorney.
And
before that I was a courtroom prosecutor.
So I took on
in these roles, perpetrators of all kinds,
predators who abused women,
fraudsters who ripped off consumers,
scammers who broke the rules for personal gain.
So Arizona,
hear me when I say
I know Donald Trump's type.
In fact, I've been dealing with people like him my
entire career.
For example, as Attorney General of California,
I took on one of our
country's largest for profit colleges that scammed students.
Well, Donald Trump ran a for profit college that scammed
students.
As a as a prosecutor,
I specialized in cases of sexual abuse.
Well, Donald Trump was found liable for committing sexual abuse.
As Attorney General, I held Wall Street banks accountable for
fraud.
Well, Donald, Donald Trump was just found guilty of fraud,
34 counts.
So all of this,
yeah, the courts will deal with that.
We're going to win in November.
We'll handle that too.
So, but all of this is to say,
in this campaign, I will proudly put my record against
his every day of the week.
But make no mistake, that being said,
our campaign is not just about US versus Donald Trump.
It is about, and I love you guys,
our campaign. Our campaign is about two different
visions for our nation.
One ours focused on the future,
the other focused on the past.
And Arizona, we, we fight for the future,
A future with affordable health care,
affordable child care and paid leave.
A future where we build a broad based economy where
every American has an opportunity to own a home,
to start a business, to build wealth.
Here with us today, I know we have a number
of Native leaders and as President,
I will tell you
I will always honor tribal sovereignty and respect tribal self
determination
and fight for a future where every Native person can
realize their aspirations and every Native community is a place
of opportunity.
We here, we believe in a future
where we lower the cost of living for
America's families
so that they have the chance not just to get
by,
but to get ahead.
Because look, while our economy is doing well by many
measures,
prices for everyday things like groceries are still too high.
You know it and I know it.
When I was attorney general,
I went after price fixing schemes.
And when I am president,
I will continue that work to bring down prices.
I will take on,
I will take on big corporations that engage in illegal
price gouging.
I will take on corporate landlords that unfairly raise rents
on working families.
I will take on Big Pharma and cap the cost
of prescription drugs for all Americans.
And all of this is to say,
unlike Donald Trump, I will always put the middle class
and working families first
because you see Coach Walls and I know the middle
class built the United States of America.
And when the middle class is strong,
America is strong.
And while we work to move our nation forward,
look, Donald Trump be very clear,
intends to move us backward
and we're not
going back.
But
just look, look, look at his,
you know, Tim talked about it.
Look at his project 2025 agenda.
It's 900 plus pages. I can't believe they put that
thing in writing,
by the way.
But when you look at it,
when you read it, you will see Project
2025 is a plan to weaken the middle class.
If he is elected, Donald Trump intends to give a
tax break to billionaires and big corporations.
He intends to cut Social Security and Medicare.
He intends to surrender our fight against the climate crisis
and Arizona. Every day you feel the impact of extreme
heat and drought.
You know this crisis is real.
He calls it a hoax.
And on top of all of this,
if Donald Trump wins in November,
he intends he intends to end the Affordable Care Act
and take us back to a time when insurance companies
have the power to deny people with pre-existing
conditions. You remember what that was?
Remember what that was?
He won't win.
You're right,
we will win. We will win
and, and part of why we are going to win
is because we remember
and we are smart and we know what's happening and
we're not falling for the gas lighting and we're not
falling for the Okie Doke.
That's why. So look, America has tried so many of
those failed policies before
and like we all know we're not going back.
We, we will move forward and take on the biggest
issues facing our nation,
for example, the issue of immigration.
So I was attorney General of a border state.
I went after the transnational gangs,
the drug cartels and human traffickers.
I prosecuted them in case after case,
and I won.
So I know what I'm talking about.
We know our immigration system is broken and we know
what it takes to fix it.
Comprehensive reform that includes
strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship.
But Donald Trump does not want to fix this problem.
Be clear about that. He has no interest or desire
to actually fix the problem.
He talks a big game
about border security, but he does not walk the walk.
Earlier this year, everybody here knows earlier this year we
had a chance
to pass the toughest bipartisan border security bill in decades.
But Donald Trump tanked the deal
because he thought by doing that it would help him
win an election.
But when I am president,
I will sign the bill.
So Arizona, ours is a fight for the future and
it is a fight for freedom.
Across our nation we are witnessing a full on assault
against hard fought, hard won freedoms and rights.
The freedom to vote,
the freedom to be safe from gun violence,
the freedom to love who you love openly and with
pride,
and the
freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own
body.
And on that last point,
understand how we got here.
When he was president, Donald Trump handpicked
three members of the United States Supreme Court
with the intention that they would overturn and undo the
protections of Roe V Wade.
And as he intended, they did.
And now, in over 20 states in our nation,
there is a Trump abortion ban.
Many like Arizona, with no exceptions,
even for rape or incest.
And just yesterday in a press conference,
we got a fresh reminder of what Donald Trump's Project
2025 agenda would do. It would ban medication abortion in
every state.
But we are not going to let that happen
because we trust women.
And when I am president of the United States and
when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedoms for
every woman in America,
I will sign it into law.
So listen, here's the thing that we all know.
Here's the thing we all know.
Generations, generations of Americans before
US-led the fight for freedom.
Now
the baton is in our hands,
each and every one of us.
So we who believe in the sacred freedom to vote
will finally pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act
and the freedom to. And
we who believe in the freedom to live safe from
gun violence will finally pass an assault weapons ban,
universal background checks and red flag laws.
So much is on the line in this election.
And understand, this is not
2016
and this is not 2020.
You know, this time around,
the stakes are even higher.
And that's because last month,
the United States Supreme Court basically just told the former
president,
who has been convicted of fraud,
that going forward, he was he will be effectively immune
no matter what he does
in the White House.
But but think about what that means.
Think about what that means in this election.
Think about what that means.
He's been effectively told he will be immune
if he's back in the White House.
Think about what that means when you remember Donald Trump
has openly vowed if reelected,
he will be a dictator on day one,
that he will weaponize the Department of Justice against his
political enemies.
Remember that he even called for the,
quote, termination of the Constitution of the United States.
Understand what this means
and let us be very clear.
Someone who suggests we should terminate the Constitution of the
United States should never again stand behind the seal of
the United States President.
So Arizona, it all comes down to this.
We are here because we love our country.
We love our country,
we love our country. And I do believe it is
the highest form of patriotism to fight for the ideals
of our country.
That's that's how we preserve the promise of America.
And after all, the promise
of America is what makes it possible
for Governor Walls and me to be
on the same stage together.
Because think 2 middle class kids,
1A daughter of Oakland, CA
who was raised by a working mother,
had a summer job at McDonald's.
The other a son of Nebraska plains who grew up
working on a farm.
Think about it. Only in America
is it possible for them together to make it all
the way to the White House?
Only in America. Only in America.
So we together, all of us,
we're running this campaign on behalf of all Americans,
from red states to blue states,
from the heartland to the coast.
And when we are elected,
we will govern on behalf of all Americans.
So Arizona,
ultimately in this election, I do believe
we each each one of us,
we face a question.
That question being what kind of country do we want
to live in?
Do we want to live in a country of chaos,
fear and hate,
or for a country of freedom,
compassion and rule of law?
And the beauty, the beauty of our democracy,
the beauty of our democracy
is that we each have the power
to answer that question. Each one of us in a
democracy has the power
to answer that question.
The power is with the people.
And in the next then 88 days,
we need you to use your power.
We need you to knock on some doors.
We need you to register folks to vote.
We need you to energize,
to mobilize, to organize,
and to make your voices heard.
So, Arizona, I ask, Are you ready to make your
voices heard?
Do we believe in freedom?
Do we believe in opportunity?
Do we believe in the promise of America
and are we ready to fight for it?
And when we fight, we win.
God
bless you, and God bless the United States of America.