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Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz says in the final stretch of the campaign that “people are hungry to come together again.”

Governor of Minnesota. Tim Waltzthe Democratic nominee for vice president said Wednesday that Americans are “hungry to find a unified message” as he and Vice President Kamala Harris made their final appeal to voters under one year old week before election dayj.

“People are hungry to get back together,” Walz said on “CBS Mornings.” “They are hungry for us to find solutions.”

Harris delivered it Closing argument on the campaign trail Tuesday night from the same website where her opponent, former President Donald Trump, spoke to his supporters before they marched on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to try to stop the counting of electoral votes.

Walz said Harris' speech, in which she contrasted her vision for the country with Trump's in the final stretch of the campaign, represented “the best of America.”

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Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz on “CBS Mornings,” October 30, 2024.

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“One that’s about uniting us, one that’s about bringing people to the table,” Walz said of the speech, which was aimed in part at undecided voters. “The American tradition of disagreeing and debating, but still doing it in a respectful way.”

The unifying moment was short-lived as President Biden spoke to Latino activists on a video call Tuesday evening. appeared calling former President Donald Trump's supporters “trash” in response to a joke comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made at a Trump rally days earlier in which Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of trash.”

The president clarified that he was referring to the comedian's “hateful rhetoric” when Republicans seized on the video footage. But Walz said Mr. Biden's comments would not undermine the campaign's final message of unity, adding that the president had “made it very clear that he was speaking above the rhetoric that we heard.”

The vice presidential candidate also touched on a number of issues that are key issues in this campaign, such as abortion. Walz did not comment on supporting specific abortion restrictions, citing a return to the standards under Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the right to abortion until the fetus was viable.

“Roe restoration — that’s what we’re looking for,” Walz said.

The Minnesota governor also addressed Arab-American voters in Michigan who may not support Harris because of her position on the war in Gaza, saying his message to them was that “there is a path here that leads the way to the war in Gaza.” “Finds stabilization in the middle East, but also someone who respects his human rights here – defends himself against Islamophobia – and ensures that he has the right to fully participate in our system here.”

A recent CBS News poll showed a growing gender gap among voters, with women supporting Harris by a 10 percent margin. The survey found that men are more likely to support advertising efforts in the United States Gender Equality has gone too far lately, and if they think so, they overwhelmingly vote for it Trump.

In his pitch to men, Walz outlined how the Harris-Walz administration would continue to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. and address gun violence in schools. And he issued a dire warning to men: “For the women in their lives who love them, their wives, their daughters, their partners, whoever it may be in this election, their lives are really at stake,” and referred to reproductive health care.

“Ultimately, as the vice president said last night, we are here for policies that help everyone — she wants to be the president for all of America,” Walz said. “Men are hearing this message, and over the next six days this message will be solidified.”