Vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz rallies the troops with stops in Charlotte, Asheville and Greensboro

With less than a week to go before Election Day, both presidential candidates are barnstorming across the seven critical battleground states, including North Carolina.

On Wednesday, while Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally in Raleigh, her running mate, Governor Tim Walz, crisscrossed the state. 

It was a whirlwind tour on a beautiful day in the Piedmont for vice presidential candidate Walz. After addressing Democratic canvassers in Charlotte in the morning, urging them to make their case with undecided voters, he boarded his flight to Greensboro and touched down at Piedmont Triad International Airport at approximately 2:45 p.m.

After a short meet and greet with elected officials on the tarmac including Democratic Representative Kathy Manning and State Senator Gladys Robinson, Walz was off to Guilford County’s Democratic Party headquarters where he pumped up a gathering of some 100 campaign volunteers and workers.

"Remember we were talking it was weeks until the election and then it was days? It’s about 150 hours now until this thing is over," he said. "So, about 150 hours — this is where you win. They decided to win it on grievance and division. We’re going to win it on hopefulness joy and hard work. They do not have the field game that we have. They do not believe in this. They do not believe in talking to your neighbors and there’s a lot of folks out there that just simply need to be asked."

Thirty minutes later, Walz and several vans of secret service, campaign staff and others were back on the road, this time to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

In a small auditorium filled with students from UNCG, North Carolina Agricultural and Techinical State University and Bennet College, Walz was introduced by Chris Vlassis, president of UNCG’s College Democrats.

Vlassis lamented that thousands of his peers on campus have no plans to vote. Walz quickly highlighted the impact young voters will play in this election, and outlined the stakes.

"How incredible is it to be with inside a 150-hour window that will have an impact not just on four years, but 40 years and generations to come?" said Walz. "Opportunity to move in a direction where all of us matter, everybody’s included. Where we’re not discriminating against folks because of their race, religion, color of their skin, who they love. Those opportunities — that’s what we want to see."  

And with that, Walz was back to PTI and on a flight to Asheville to keep spreading the word: vote.