MACON, Ga. — Minnesota's first lady Gwen Walz knocked on doors in Macon on Thursday, encouraging Central Georgians to vote for Kamala Harris and Harris' running mate, her husband Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
"Georgia, we have a lot of work right in front of us to bring this thing home, starting with this canvas launch," Walz said. "I'm excited to grab a clipboard and pitch in too. So, will you come knock on some doors with me?"
While in Macon, Walz encouraged volunteers at the campaign's field office on Georgia Avenue to stay strong in the final stretch of the campaign.
"Every place I go, people are fed up with Donald Trump," Walz said. "But more than that, they are fired up for a new way forward."
Armed with 20 dozen cookies for volunteers — which she noted was her great-grandmother's recipe — they hit the streets and knocked on doors.
The event was to kick-off a canvassing effort in Macon, and Walz boasted that the Harris-Walz campaign had knocked on 1.5 million doors and made 15 million phone calls in the last week of the campaign.
"We are winning voters over one neighbor at a time," Walz said. "That's how we have to do it."
Both campaigns have high hopes when it comes to Georgia this year.
"There's a lot of reasons to be in Georgia," Walz said.
Democrats are hoping to have a repeat of their history-making performance in the 2020 election, flipping Georgia blue in a presidential race for the first time since 1992. But Republicans are hoping to move Georgia back into the red column.
In the final week of the campaign, Central Georgia has been bustling with Democratic campaign surrogates making their final pitch for their candidate, ranging from Walz on Thursday to First Lady Jill Biden set to campaign in Macon on Saturday.
On the Republican side, former President Donald Trump will descend on Macon on Sunday for what the campaign says is his last rally in Georgia before election day
During her speech, Walz focused on the Harris campaign's core messaging: "turning the page" on Trump's brand of politics and making the case that Trump's values and policies are not reflective of most Americans.
"For nine long years, we have been suffering through the Trump show, sowing chaos and division among us, lying right to our faces and always, always, always making everything about himself," Walz said. "It is abundantly clear that Trump is not fighting for us; he's fighting for himself."
Walz also criticized the Project 2025 agenda, which Trump has not explicitly endorsed but has the support of many of his close allies.
"What he's offering with the Project 2025 agenda, no one is asking for it," Walz said. "I know it's Halloween, but there's nothing more frightening than what they're planning for us in Project 2025."
She criticized the plan's tax cuts for the rich, tax increases to the middle class and cuts to social security and healthcare.
Walz painted the Harris-Walz campaign as being better for the middle class and more reflective of America's values.
"As the Vice President said on Tuesday, we don't have to live like this," Walz said. "We can turn the page on him, and we can turn the page to a new, forward-looking vision from Kamala and Tim."
While the Democrats are hoping voters resonate with their message of turning the page on Trump, Republicans are hoping voters resonate with their messaging on immigration and inflation, tying recent economic woes to the Biden presidency.
Georgia has set early-voting records with a whopping 50% of active voters casting their ballot early, but Friday is the last day of early voting. After that, the last chance to vote will be when polls open on election day at 7 a.m. until polls close at 7 p.m.