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The two-time Oscar winner knocked on doors, had lunch with Sen. Jacky Rosen and sat with first-time voters and business owners in the city as part of a Democratic push to get out the vote.With days to go before the election, the push is on from both parties to get out the vote in battleground states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The Democrats and White House hopeful Kamala Harris got a boost in Nevada from two-time Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, who landed in Las Vegas on Friday for a day of campaign activities that included...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez touted First Gentleman Doug Emhoff as the ideal representation of masculinity at a Las Vegas campaign event for his wife Kamala Harris on Wednesday. “He’s not afraid to embody and pass on these values of security and this idea that you can, you can let your girl shine,” Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told a room full of students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, according to the Daily Mail. “And he embodies that really well. We should all be really, really proud of him.” The “squad” member praised Emhoff’s example of masculinity less than a week after a...

During a campaign event less than two weeks before Election Day 2024, Donald Trump invited Vivek Ramaswamy to the stage to speak about him. The move came long after Ramaswamy addressed the crowd in his own speech.

Kamalanomics has made the American Dream of homeownership unreachable for young Americans and families across Arizona. Under Kamala Harris, home prices are up over 32 percent, interest rates reached their highest levels in over 20 years, and mortgage payments hit record highs. Arizona voters know only a return to President Trump's successful economic policies will restore the American Dream, defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, and make purchasing a home more affordable. Turning Point is honored to host President Trump in Las Vegas, Nevada to rally support for him in this critical swing state. This is an event for all...

LAS VEGAS, Oct 22, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Las Vegas market worker Maria Salinas believes Democrats have failed their traditional Latino supporters for too long, and -- like many others in this key voting bloc -- is ready to vote for Donald Trump for the first time. "I think Trump can change things a little," she said, speaking to AFP at the juice stand she runs in the electoral battleground state of Nevada. The Democrats offer "promises and promises... but nothing changes for us," said Salinas, whose relatives have been waiting for years to receive the legal right to move to...

Updated, 4 PM, 10/22/24 Good afternoon, blog mates. Here’s your stat for the day: In the 15 rural counties, in-person voting, which is about 37 percent of the rural vote, the Rs lead the Ds by 73 percent to 11 percent. I kid you not. In rural mail ballots, the Rs lead the Ds by a wide margin, 46-28, but those in-person numbers are startling. They account for about 8,000 of the Rs nearly 12,000-votes lead in the rurals, which are punching above their weight with 13 percent of the vote (nearly 3 points above their percentage of reg voters)....

Vice President Kamala Harris is facing possible “serious danger” in Nevada as Republicans have opened what amounts to an unprecedented-in-modern-times lead in early voting over Democrats. Jon Ralston of the Nevada Independent, reporting on the early vote numbers showing a GOP lead, flashed the warning to Democrats late Monday evening out west. Ralston noted that since the rise of the political machine that the late former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid built for Democrats this has never happened. “Republicans lead statewide in Nevada after three days of early voting and mail ballot counting,” Ralston wrote in a blog post on...

Updated, 10 PM, 10/21/24 Good evening, blog mates. The headline: Republicans lead statewide in Nevada after three days of early voting and mail ballot counting. This has not happened in a presidential year in The Reid Machine Era, which encompasses the races since 2008. This could signal serious danger for the Dems and for Kamala Harris here. It's pretty easy to explain: The Clark firewall has all but collapsed (it's 4,500 votes) and the rurals are way overperforming their share of the electorate with what has been tabulated, nearly by 4 points -- almost all taken from Clark's share. The...

Three weeks ago in Nevada, in the American Thinker/Rasmussen Reports poll, Trump was up by one point, and the Republican senatorial candidate, Sam Brown, was down by ten. It turns out that things can change a lot in three weeks. Not only has Trump advanced to a two-point lead in the latest poll, but Brown now leads by two points as well. It turns out that voters who increasingly distrust the government and are dismayed by the quality of their lives want to “turn the page”...away from Democrats and toward Trump. Rasmussen Reports polled 748 Like Voters (“LVs”) in Nevada....

Some Nevada voters will receive new ballots after an error listed Lynn Chapman, running for Nevada’s second congressional district under the Independent American Party label, as a member of the Democratic Party. The error, first reported by the Nevada Appeal over the weekend, incorrectly lists Chapman as a Democrat on ballots in Carson City for Nevada’s second congressional district. Chapman, who is a member of the Independent American Party, is one of four candidates seeking the position, alongside Republican Mark Amodei, Libertarian Javi Tachiquin, and non-partisan candidate Greg Kidd. Since the error was discovered, the Carson City Clerk-Recorder’s office has...

Two months ago, Javier Barajas hosted former President Donald J. Trump at Il Toro E La Capra, one of five restaurants he owns in Las Vegas. Mr. Barajas, 65, had eagerly backed Hillary Clinton when she ran for president in 2008; he previously welcomed President Biden to one of his other restaurants. But he has thrown his support to Mr. Trump this year for one major reason: skyrocketing prices on everything from the ingredients in his entrees to the gas for his catering truck. His nephew, Justin Favela, was crafting a piece of traditional Mexican folk art from tissue paper...

Las Vegas is best known for its glittering casinos along the Strip, but it is also a perennial political battleground. That is partly because it is a transient region inside a transient state — a place where people move in and out with rapid speed, adding a new crop of voters with every election cycle. Adding to that volatility is the fact that the state’s demographics skew young, and that the number of new voter registrations keep growing. Much of that growth comes from Hispanic voters, who make up more than 20 percent of the Nevada electorate. For nearly two...

I almost never do this but I'm going to play all four pieces of tape from her reporting. This to me is far more powerful than a poll and Rasmussen, who I love, or New York Times Siena. I don't care about any of that now.When they send Adriana Diaz into restaurants in Washoe County, you should watch, and then it goes past the muster of an editor. What she found on the ground in Washoe County data should give every single one of you a shot in the arm of hope. You see, this means what she found on...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Sept. 20 the Green Party’s request to restore its candidates to the state ballot for the Nov. 5 election.The new ruling was made after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled 5–2 on Sept. 6 that the party’s candidates could not appear on the ballot because they used the wrong form when gathering ballot-access signatures from the public. The ruling also follows the Nevada State Democratic Party’s challenge of signatures that would have permitted Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein to appear on the ballot. No justices dissented from the new order, nor did they explain...

One of the primary roles of our state legislatures and the various secretaries of state around the republic is to ensure the validity of our elections. A primary part of making such an assurance is to make sure our voter registration rolls are accurate and up-to-date and only include those who are legally entitled to vote. There have been, in recent years, many efforts to do precisely this, and it speaks volumes that there is always one party in favor of ensuring our voter registration rolls are accurate and valid - and the other party is against any such efforts....

he top election official for swing state Nevada’s most populous county relented and finally decided to look into “bad addresses” on the state’s voter rolls. While claims of voters residing at strip clubs, bars, and casinos should have raised red flags for Clark County Registrar of Voters Lorena Portillo, apparently it took the threat of a court order to grab her attention. As The Federalist has reported, election integrity watchdog the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) has, even “since before the 2020 election,” investigated bad addresses in the Silver State — individuals in the voter registration database who purportedly live...

Jake E. Lee has explained the circumstances behind the shooting incident that took place last week. The guitarist was walking his dog late at night near his Las Vegas home when he was shot three times in what was first described as a random attack. He’d previously said the shooter had emptied his clip and 15 shells had been found at the scene – noting that he could “only dodge so many, so one bullet went through my forearm, one through my foot, and one in the back, which broke a rib and damaged a lung.” In a new update,...

Former President Donald Trump is returning to Las Vegas next week for a rally at Thomas & Mack Center, organizers announced Thursday. Trump is set to be the keynote speaker for “The United for Change Rally” hosted by Turning Point PAC and Turning Point Action starting at 4 p.m. on Oct. 24. The event is partly designed to recruit volunteers in harmony with local and statewide Republican groups, organizers said. Surrogates scheduled to speak include former Democratic U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — who has since endorsed Trump — and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, organizers said. Tickets can be...

A Las Vegas couple face charges of assault, battery, and stalking after harassing a Trump voter outside his home earlier this month and running over his foot as after he pulled a gun. According to Las Vegas police, 38-year-old Jennifer Lund and 45-year-old Timothy Parks were driving around while blaring the song "F*** Donald Trump" (presumably the 2016 ditty released by rapper YG) when they stopped their vehicle in front of a home displaying a Donald Trump sign. Lund later told police it wasn't the first time that she'd parked her car and blasted the tune with the intent of...

A union representing roughly 1.8 million teachers and other educational workers used taxpayer-funded dues to book a trip to a famous casino and to pay for meals at luxury restaurants. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) spent over $370,000 on expenses at Caesars Palace, a luxury hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, disclosure forms show. In addition, the AFT also used dues collected from its members to help pay for trips to Europe and South America, as well as to pay off five-figure tabs at upscale restaurants. “My suspicion is that this is a case of ‘rank hath its...