Crowd Chants 'We're Not Eating Cats' at Tim Walz Rally in Grand Rapids

US Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz laughed as crowds chanted “we’re not eating cats” during a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Thursday, September 12.

The crowd’s chants about cats were in reference to unsubstantiated rumors about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, that were brought up by Donald Trump during his TV debate with Kamala Harris.

Walz took a swipe at Trump over his remarks at the debate, telling the rally “he said a lot of weird stuff.”

“You tell me you had this on your bingo card… they’re eating cats?” he asked the crowd.

“We’re not eating cats, we’re not eating cats,” the crowd chanted in reply.

“It would be funnier if it wasn’t so dangerous,” Walz said.

Walz also thanked his “fellow cat owner, Taylor Swift,” who publicly endorsed Kamala Harris after the presidential debate.

“Vice president Harris and I couldn’t be more excited to have her support.” he said. Credit: Tim Walz via Storyful

Video transcript

One final.

Thank you.

Thank you to my fellow cat owner Taylor Swift like you, she's not here.

But let me just say uh Vice President, I know you're all waiting on what a bait and switch this guy left on us.

Look, Vice President Harris and I couldn't be more excited to have her support, really grateful.

So, um and look, look, it, it's not as if I didn't warn these guys a few months ago, you mess with cat people and you will find out you will find out.

So uh they did so uh beautiful strategy, they're picking on the cat people.

So um look all of you are here.

But how, how can we not start with the debate?

How can we not start with the debate?

Um Look what was so clear about it was and, and again, not surprising, but there was one person on that stage who should be the next president of the United States.

She commanded the room and I know all of us are incredibly proud of Vice President Harris.

But let's be very clear.

None of us were surprised at what happened there.

None of us were surprised.

No one has come with more experience to this job than she has and no one has done more damage than Donald Trump has.

So we knew what was coming and no pun intended from the get go.

She had the upper hand walking in, given the handshake.

Look, it says something about character.

We talk about this often shake hands and when you lose which he did last time and which he will again, you shake hands and walk away.

So I got asked right after the debate, you know, do you think we should do another one?

And I said hell every day we should do another one.

Of course.

Well, it's not going to happen because Donald Trump confirmed today.

He's not doing another one.

So, um, give him, give him a little break.

That one left a mark, that one left a mark.

So he's with it.

So look who he was was on full display the other night, his true colors were out there, not just his makeup, not just his makeup.

So if I heard somebody say, if you want to know in a debate who's winning whatever, turn the sound down and you would have sworn that was a nearly 80 year old man shaking his fist at clouds.

That's what it looked like.

So look, this guy has spent his entire life focused on himself, obsessed with the past and the thing that is unforgivable, rooting against American America's people, which he's done consistently.

And he said a lot of weird stuff too.

So I'm just gonna say that and, and that was, and, and that you tell me you had this on your bingo card and they're eating cats and they're eating cats.

We, so, ah, Michigan, we love you.

And it would be, it, it would be funnier too if it wasn't so dangerous.

But I want to be clear about this guy last week.

He did one of these, these fake town halls where he gets one of the Fox News people to ask him questions that he knows and then he, then he answers on this.

But what was so fascinating about that was in that amount of time that he was there.

You should go see this.

It's really something to see in that little interview.

He did 11 times.

He reassured the people there that he was not weird.

Now.

Yes.

Some of you picked up on this.

If you need to remind people 11 times, you're not weird.

You might be weird.

There you go.