Gwen Walz warns LGBTQ+ community of Trump, Vance, touts husband's record
Source: USA Today
Published 10:08 p.m. ET Sept. 21, 2024
MINNEAPOLIS ? Gwen Walz, wife of Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz, bashed former President Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance at a dinner for the Human Rights Campaign on Saturday, giving her own take on her husband's signature phrase.
"Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance, please mind your own business!" Walz said at the event for the LGBTQ+ civil rights organization in Minneapolis. She instructed the crowd to repeat the words, and they did in unison. "We're going to use that word 'please' in there because remember, we're being teachers."
The former educator, who spoke to a room of 600 at the Hyatt Regency hotel, praised her husband’s record of advocating for the LGBTQ+ community in Congress and as governor, including signing an executive order to protect gender affirming care and banning conversion therapy.
In 1999, the governor became the first faculty adviser to his high school’s gay-straight alliance group in Mankato, Minnesota. The student who formed the group, Jacob Reitan, sat in the audience on Saturday.
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