Tim Walz’s Wife Gwen Makes Campaign Stop at LGBTQ Bar The Abbey

Tim Walz’s wife, Gwen Walz, made a campaign stop Tuesday night at legendary West Hollywood LGBTQ bar The Abbey.

“Tim and I are used to being at dance parties, but usually we’re chaperoning,” Minnesota’s first lady quipped when she first walked on stage.

The event, officially billed as “A Dance Party for Kamala With Mrs. Gwen Walz,” raised more than $100,000 for the Harris-Walz campaign, according to event co-chair Todd Hawkins.

“As you’ve heard, we have one week until Election Day and that seems very hard to believe” Gwen Walz said. “I can see a little anxiety in your eyes but know this — I would rather be us than them.”

Chairs of the event included Jesse Tyler Ferguson and his political consultant husband Justin Mikita, Abbey owner Tristan Schukraft, former U.S. ambassador to Spain and Andorra James Costos, human rights advocate Kimberly Mareau Emerson, Lance Bass and Michael Turchin, Niecy Nash Betts and Jessica Betts, Jordan Brown, producer Danny Rose, Rembrandt Flores and fashion personality and journalist Joe Zee.

Gwen Walz joked about her non-stop campaign schedule, saying, “This is my fourth state this week — is it Tuesday? Yeah, it’s Tuesday.”

She later said, “For nine long years, we’ve all been suffering through that Trump show, sowing chaos and division, lying right to our faces and always always always making everything about himself. Hasn’t that just been exhausting?”