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Tim Walz: “The states that are the ones that are going to really come…”

Featuring: Tim Walz, Democratic | Governor of Minnesota

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Tim Walz in Wausau, Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 12:16

Look, a couple thousand votes in a county like this, the way our system is set up, is worth more than 20,000 votes in California or wherever it may be. So we know, and look, I'm going to say this. The states that are the ones that are going to really come to it, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, they're really messing. We are people that walk on water half the years we like snow. Our ancestors came across and could have kept walking until they found the Pacific Ocean and palm trees. (12:16–12:25)

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Asserts that Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania are critical states in the election.

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