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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz delivered a focused message that aimed to rally young voters in the crowd as he stumped for Vice President Kamala Harris in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Monday.

In an appearance near the University of Michigan campus, with a little over a week before Election Day, Walz delivered a short and thoughtful speech boosting his running mate's candidacy.

“Look, her first day -- from a prosecutor to a district attorney to the attorney general of California to a United States senator to the vice president -- Kamala Harris had that one client: the people," Walz said.

He also, at times, tapped into his "coach" persona. “Now we're moving this thing over the next eight days, an inch at a time, a yard at a time, one door at a time, one phone call at a time," Walz said. "[Because] one of those door knocks, and one of those interactions -- because one or two extra votes for precinct in the state of Michigan will make Kamala Harris the president the United States."

Walz acknowledged head-on the anxiety that young, first-time voters may be feeling during this election cycle.

“Here's the good news: If you're feeling any of that anxiety, any of that nervousness, any of that worry, we've got the solution for you. Get out there and vote for Kamala Harris. I know I did it last Wednesday with my son, who voted [for] the first time, and it works,” he said to the crowd of largely students.

It was Walz's first joint rally with Harris since their appearance in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the Democratic National Convention in August.

During a stop in Kalamazoo, Michigan, at Trak-Houz Bar & Grill where Vice President Kamala Harris and the state's governor, Gretchen Whitmer, were grabbing a beer, a hot mic caught Harris discussing that her campaign is struggling with male voters.

“So, everyone agrees that we need to move the ground with men,” Harris said. She goes on to look around at the cameras, saying, "Oh, we have microphones in here just listening to everything. I didn't realize that. We just told all the family secrets. S---," she said while laughing.

On the record, Harris flat-out rejects that she has any issues with male voters. ”It’s not what I see in terms of my rallies, in terms of the interactions I’m having with people in communities and on the ground,” Harris said at a campaign stop in Philadelphia last week.

"What I am seeing is in equal measure, men and women talking about their concerns about the future of our democracy, talking about the fact that they want a president who leads with optimism and takes on the challenges that we face, whether it be grocery prices or investing in small businesses or home ownership," Harris said at the time.

The vice president's campaign has notably been doing extensive outreach to male voters. The campaign announced on Sunday that they were focusing on outreach during NFL games, 3v3 games and Twitch streams to mobilize and activate fans. They also launched Athletes for Harris, co-chaired by Magic Johnson, and have placed ads on fantasy sports, sports betting and sports news sites in an effort to close the gap with male voters.

During his second campaign event Monday, vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance accused Vice President Kamala Harris of doubling down on "divisive rhetoric" and displayed images of American World War II soldiers landing at Normandy in 1944.

"What the Democrats have decided to do in this last week of the campaign is to double down on the most divisive rhetoric, I think, that we have ever seen from a major party presidential candidate in my lifetime," Vance told the crowd in Racine, Wisconsin.

Flanked by two monitors while talking to a crowd of about 200 people, Vance showed photos of troops landing at the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in 1944.

Vance questioned what those soldiers would think of Harris and her policies.

"Do you think that those men who saved a continent, and I would say, saved the world for freedom and liberty? Do you think that they were fighting to open the southern border of their own country? Do you think that those men were fighting for taxpayer-funded sex reassignment surgeries for illegal aliens?" Vance asked the crowd.

"I'd like Kamala Harris to go back in time and hop on that boat and say that she wants taxpayer-funded sex reassignment surgeries for illegal aliens. And I'd like to hear the response of those brave men," Vance said.

During his campaign event in Atlanta on Monday, Trump responded to claims his rhetoric can be likened to fascist beliefs, saying "I'm not a Nazi."

"The newest line from Kamala and her campaign is that everyone who isn't voting for her is a Nazi," Trump told the crowd.

"I'm not a Nazi. I'm the opposite of a Nazi," Trump said.

During a CNN town hall last week, Harris was asked if she thought Trump was a fascist and replied, "Yes, I do."

Harris went on to say American voters don't want "a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist."