’I’m leaving it all on the field,’ hoarse Walz tells supporters
Harris’ running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz kicked off a campaign swing through Georgia on Sunday with events in Fulton and Gwinnett counties in the Atlanta area.
At a discussion with HBCU students from the Atlanta University Center Consortium -- Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, Morehouse College and the Morehouse School of Medicine -- Walz asked the students how they were feeling about the election. The one male student of the group of six told the governor he was “scared.”
“Scary, right?” Walz responded, offering some advice to deal with the pre-election nerves: “Nauseously optimistic. It is OK. Before any big thing in life, you always feel anxiety. You always feel nervous. But the biggest thing I've been telling everybody to get over that is going to action,” he said.

Walz then kicked off a canvass launch with Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., in Gwinnett County, sounding hoarse at the beginning of his remarks after days of nonstop campaign travel.
“I'm leaving it all on the field so I have lost my voice, but it has come back for these last 48 hours,” Walz said.
He told the crowd a little of what he’s been doing the past couple days on the road in the West.
“The turf is cut. We're ready to go,” he said. “I was knocking doors in Henderson, Nevada, yesterday, they're doing great. We were in Flagstaff to massive crowds. We ended up in Tucson. People are showing up across the country because they believe in a new way forward.”
Walz also emphasized that the race in 2020 was won through Georgia.
“This will be won through states like Georgia. They're going to be won through canvases just like this, on margins where one or two votes per precinct are going to make a difference. Georgia, you stood up last time and stood for America,” he said.
Walz is to speak later Sunday at a rally in Cobb County with second gentleman Doug Emhoff, Harris’ sister Maya, and musicians Jon Bon Jovi, The War and Treaty, and Michael Stipe.
Then he’ll head to Charlotte later Sunday for campaign events there.
-ABC News’ Isabella Murray






