Trump to rally in Minden for Lombardo, Laxalt ahead of Nevada general election

Former President Donald Trump is headed again to Nevada for a normal election marketing campaign rally subsequent weekend to spice up Republican candidates, together with U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt and gubernatorial candidate Joe Lombardo.

The rally is scheduled for Oct. 8, and will probably be held on the Minden-Tahoe Airport alongside Laxalt, Lombardo and “all the Nevada Trump ticket,” in accordance with an advisory issued on Friday. It marks Trump’s second go to to the state this yr, after the previous president got here to Las Vegas in July for an occasion additionally aimed toward boosting Laxalt and Lombardo.

The rally will coincide with the deliberate mass mailing out of ballots to most rural counties (together with Douglas County, which homes Minden) in Nevada, and two weeks earlier than the beginning of early voting.

Trump held a marketing campaign rally on the Minden airport in 2020, after earlier makes an attempt by the president’s marketing campaign to carry rallies at airports in Las Vegas and Reno had been rebuffed by officers citing Nevada’s at-the-time ban on gatherings of greater than 50 folks through the top of the COVID-19 pandemic. Roughly 5,000 folks attended that rally.

President Joe Biden narrowly received Nevada within the 2020 presidential race, defeating Trump by about 33,000 votes out of greater than 1.4 million votes forged.

Latest polling reveals that Lombardo and Laxalt are locked in tight races with their Democratic normal election opponents, Gov. Steve Sisolak and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), respectively.

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