00:00Welcome back to the CBS News vice presidential debate.
00:03It is now time for the closing statement.
00:05Senator Vance won the virtual coin toss and elected to go last.
00:09So, Governor Walz, you are first.
00:11You have two minutes.
00:12Well, thank you, Senator Vance.
00:14Thank you to CBS News.
00:15And most importantly, thank you to all of you.
00:18If you're still up and the folks who missed dancing with our stars,
00:21I appreciate it.
00:22But look, the support of the democracy matters.
00:24It matters that you're here.
00:26And I'm as surprised as anybody of this coalition
00:29that Kamala Harris has built,
00:31from Bernie Sanders to Dick Cheney to Taylor Swift,
00:34and a whole bunch of folks in between there.
00:36And they don't all agree on everything,
00:38but they are truly optimistic people.
00:41They believe in a positive future of this country
00:44and one where our politics can be better than it is.
00:47And I have to tell you, that better than it is
00:51is the sense of optimism that there can be an opportunity economy
00:56that works for everyone,
00:57not just to get by, but to get ahead.
00:59And the idea that freedom really means something.
01:01Not the freedom of government to be in your bedroom or exam room,
01:04but the freedom for you to make choices about yourself.
01:07Now, look, we all know who Donald Trump is.
01:10He's told us, and as Maya Angelou said,
01:12believe him when he told you that.
01:14His first inaugural address talked about American carnage.
01:17And then he spent four years trying to maybe do that.
01:20Senator Vance tonight made it clear
01:23he will stand with Donald Trump's agenda.
01:26He will continue to push down that road.
01:29Kamala Harris gives us a different option.
01:32Now, I have to tell you, I'm going to be careful about the quotes,
01:35but there's one that Senator Vance said that does resonate with me.
01:38He said, Donald Trump makes the people I care about afraid.
01:42A lot of America feels that way.
01:44We don't need to be afraid.
01:46Franklin Roosevelt was right.
01:48All we have to fear is fear itself.
01:50Kamala Harris is bringing us a new way forward.
01:52She's bringing us a politics of joy.
01:54She's bringing real solutions for the middle class.
01:57And she's centering you at the heart of that,
01:59all the while asking everyone, join this movement.
02:03Make your voices heard.
02:05Let's look for a new day where everybody gets that opportunity
02:09and everybody gets a chance to thrive.
02:11I humbly ask for your vote on November 5th for Kamala Harris.
02:15Governor Walz, thank you.
02:17Senator Vance, your closing statement.
02:19Well, I want to thank Governor Walz, you folks at CBS,
02:22and of course the American people for tuning in this evening.
02:25One of the issues we didn't talk about was energy.
02:27And I remember when I was being raised by my grandmother,
02:30when she didn't have enough money to turn on the heat some nights
02:33because Ohio gets pretty cold at night
02:35and because money was often very tight.
02:37And I believe, as a person who wants to be your next vice president,
02:41that we are a rich and prosperous enough country
02:43where every American, whether they're rich or poor,
02:45ought to be able to turn on their heat
02:47in the middle of a cold winter night.
02:49That's gotten more difficult thanks to Kamala Harris's energy policies.
02:52I believe that whether you're rich or poor,
02:54you ought to be able to afford a nice meal for your family.
02:57That's gotten harder because of Kamala Harris's policies.
03:00I believe that whether you're rich or poor,
03:02you ought to be able to afford to buy a house.
03:04You ought to be able to live in safe neighborhoods.
03:06You ought to not have your communities flooded with fentanyl.
03:09And that, too, has gotten harder because of Kamala Harris's policies.
03:13Now, I've been in politics long enough to do what Kamala Harris does
03:17when she stands before the American people
03:19and says that on day one,
03:21she's going to work on all these challenges I just listed.
03:24She's been the vice president for three and a half years.
03:27Day one was 1,400 days ago,
03:30and her policies have made these problems worse.
03:33Now, I believe that we have the most beautiful country in the world.
03:37I meet people on the campaign trail who can't afford food,
03:40but have the grace and generosity to ask me how I'm doing
03:44and to tell me they're praying for my family.
03:46What that has taught me is that we have the greatest country,
03:49the most beautiful country,
03:51the most incredible people anywhere in the world,
03:54but they're not going to be able to achieve their full dreams
03:58with the broken leadership that we have in Washington.
04:00They're not going to be able to live their American dream
04:03if we do the same thing that we've been doing
04:05for the last three and a half years.
04:07We need change. We need a new direction.
04:09We need a president who has already done this once before and did it well.
04:13Please vote for Donald Trump.
04:15And whether you vote for me or vote for Tim Walz,
04:17I just want to say I'm so proud to be doing this,
04:20and I'm rooting for you.
04:21God bless you, and good night.
04:22Senator Vance, thank you.
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