Trump, Harris strike opposing tones in closing message to Nevadans
ELECTION 2024
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a photo of Marine veteran Nicholas Douglas Quets, who was allegedly killed in Mexico by cartel members, as his parents, Warren and Patricia Quets, speak during a campaign rally Thursday at Lee’s Family Forum in Henderson.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a photo of Marine veteran Nicholas Douglas Quets, who was allegedly killed in Mexico by cartel members, as his parents, Warren and Patricia Quets, speak during a campaign rally Thursday at Lee’s Family Forum in Henderson.
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Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris arrives to speak during a campaign rally Thursday at the Reno Events Center in Reno.
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris arrives to speak during a campaign rally Thursday at the Reno Events Center in Reno.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives Thursday for a campaign rally at Lee’s Family Forum in Henderson.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives Thursday for a campaign rally at Lee’s Family Forum in Henderson.
Republican nominee Donald Trump repeatedly called for the mass deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants during a rally Thursday in Henderson, describing the country as “occupied” with migrants overcrowding schools and hospitals while gangs are “conquering” cities across the country.
Election Day on Tuesday, Trump said, will be “liberation day for America.”
Trump rehashed a similar narrative to supporters to stoke fears about undocumented immigrants, going as far praising local police and border patrol because “they can look at migrants and “tell if they’re good and or bad.”
The jumbotron at Lee’s Family Forum displayed a picture of garbage in water stating that Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ border plan is to “make America Haiti.” He also brought up Aurora, Colo., a city at the center of Trump’s rhetoric on immigration. Trump said the city has been taken over by migrant gangs.
While local police have identified members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in the city, Aurora’s mayor has pushed back against claims that the city has been overrun.
Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown, who spoke ahead of Trump, claimed that there are “tens of millions” of undocumented immigrants coming across the border. As of 2022, the country had 11 million undocumented immigrants total, according to Pew Research Center.
The deportation effort Trump is suggesting would compel the involvement of state, local and perhaps military forces, overwhelm already overtaxed courts and risk rounding up U.S. citizens.
Undocumented immigrants are 8.6% of Nevada’s workforce, the largest share in the country, according to Pew Research. The group contributes $412 million in state and local taxes on top of $767 million going to the federal government, the American Immigration Council reported.
“This election is about consequences — Consequences for failed leadership,” Brown said before Trump took the stage.
“Consequences for the Biden-Harris administration … consequences for Democrats down the ballot.”
Trump highlighted people killed by immigrants or near the border. In October, Nicholas Quets, a U.S. Marine veteran, was killed in Sonora, Mexico, while on a trip to Rocky Point with friends 30 miles from the United States’ southern border.
Warren Douglas Quets, who told the crowd he was apolitical before his son’s killing, said local media and officials largely ignored his son’s death. Trump and vice presidential candidate JD Vance got back to him within 36 hours, he said.
“Help us get justice for Nicholas,” his mother, Patricia Marie Quets, said.
As Trump’s event was underway, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at a rally in Phoenix — her first among three that day. The Democratic candidate later spoke in Reno and ended her day of campaigning at Craig Ranch Regional Park in North Las Vegas. The early voting period in both Arizona and Nevada ends today.
Harris reiterated her campaign promises to restore reproductive rights and lower the cost of living, all while issuing her usual warnings against Trump.
“He is not someone who is thinking about how to make your life better,” Harris said in Phoenix. “This is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power.”
Less than a week from Election Day, every person who took the stage at Trump’s Henderson rally had the same message: Vote.
Fending off a supermajority in the Nevada Legislature, Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo told attendees that they need to vote Republican all the way down the ballot. If the Democrats gained two-thirds of both the state Senate and Assembly, Lombardo emphasized that he’d “have no ability to do my job.”
In his speech at the rally for the billionaire former president, Brown characterized his political opponent, Democratic incumbent Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., as a rich politician out of touch with Nevadans.
He said her neighborhood was better protected than the United States’ southern border.
Republican officials who spoke earlier in the day slammed Harris on the economy, border and culture war issues. Trump, however, “has a record of success,” Lombardo said.
“When he was our president, what occurred?” the governor asked the crowd at Lee’s Family Forum. “The economy was robust. Border was secure. We could afford gas and groceries. Nevada had a record (low) unemployment rate.”
The officials also criticized President Joe Biden for calling Trump’s supporters “garbage” Tuesday. The remark was in response to a comedian calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York City last weekend.
Some Trump supporters came in wearing high-visibility vests in reference to Biden’s comments. On stage, Brown took off his suit jacket to reveal a similar vest to the crowd’s cheers.
“We know it’s what they believe because look at how they’ve treated you.
They treat you like garbage,” Trump said.
“For the last nine years, Kamala and her party have called us racists, bigots, fascists, deplorables, irredeemables, even Nazis.”
Harris’ message didn’t change in her three campaign stops.
“He simply does not respect the freedom of women or the intelligence of women to know what’s in their own best interests and make decisions accordingly.
But we trust women,” Harris said.
Harris has repeatedly said during the campaign that she would be a president for all Americans, regardless of whether they voted for her. She continued that message Thursday. “I pledge to listen to people who disagree with me and unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe that people who disagree with me are the enemy,” Harris said in Phoenix. “He wants to put them in jail, I’ll give them a seat at the table because that’s how democracy works and that’s how real leaders work.” kyle.chouinard@gmgvegas.com / 702- 990-8923 / @Kyle_Chouinard haajrah.gilani@gmgvegas.com / 702- 990-8923 / @haajrahgilani
Election Day on Tuesday, Trump said, will be “liberation day for America.”
Trump rehashed a similar narrative to supporters to stoke fears about undocumented immigrants, going as far praising local police and border patrol because “they can look at migrants and “tell if they’re good and or bad.”
The jumbotron at Lee’s Family Forum displayed a picture of garbage in water stating that Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ border plan is to “make America Haiti.” He also brought up Aurora, Colo., a city at the center of Trump’s rhetoric on immigration. Trump said the city has been taken over by migrant gangs.
While local police have identified members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in the city, Aurora’s mayor has pushed back against claims that the city has been overrun.
Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown, who spoke ahead of Trump, claimed that there are “tens of millions” of undocumented immigrants coming across the border. As of 2022, the country had 11 million undocumented immigrants total, according to Pew Research Center.
The deportation effort Trump is suggesting would compel the involvement of state, local and perhaps military forces, overwhelm already overtaxed courts and risk rounding up U.S. citizens.
Undocumented immigrants are 8.6% of Nevada’s workforce, the largest share in the country, according to Pew Research. The group contributes $412 million in state and local taxes on top of $767 million going to the federal government, the American Immigration Council reported.
“This election is about consequences — Consequences for failed leadership,” Brown said before Trump took the stage.
“Consequences for the Biden-Harris administration … consequences for Democrats down the ballot.”
Trump highlighted people killed by immigrants or near the border. In October, Nicholas Quets, a U.S. Marine veteran, was killed in Sonora, Mexico, while on a trip to Rocky Point with friends 30 miles from the United States’ southern border.
Warren Douglas Quets, who told the crowd he was apolitical before his son’s killing, said local media and officials largely ignored his son’s death. Trump and vice presidential candidate JD Vance got back to him within 36 hours, he said.
“Help us get justice for Nicholas,” his mother, Patricia Marie Quets, said.
As Trump’s event was underway, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at a rally in Phoenix — her first among three that day. The Democratic candidate later spoke in Reno and ended her day of campaigning at Craig Ranch Regional Park in North Las Vegas. The early voting period in both Arizona and Nevada ends today.
Harris reiterated her campaign promises to restore reproductive rights and lower the cost of living, all while issuing her usual warnings against Trump.
“He is not someone who is thinking about how to make your life better,” Harris said in Phoenix. “This is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power.”
Less than a week from Election Day, every person who took the stage at Trump’s Henderson rally had the same message: Vote.
Fending off a supermajority in the Nevada Legislature, Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo told attendees that they need to vote Republican all the way down the ballot. If the Democrats gained two-thirds of both the state Senate and Assembly, Lombardo emphasized that he’d “have no ability to do my job.”
In his speech at the rally for the billionaire former president, Brown characterized his political opponent, Democratic incumbent Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., as a rich politician out of touch with Nevadans.
He said her neighborhood was better protected than the United States’ southern border.
Republican officials who spoke earlier in the day slammed Harris on the economy, border and culture war issues. Trump, however, “has a record of success,” Lombardo said.
“When he was our president, what occurred?” the governor asked the crowd at Lee’s Family Forum. “The economy was robust. Border was secure. We could afford gas and groceries. Nevada had a record (low) unemployment rate.”
The officials also criticized President Joe Biden for calling Trump’s supporters “garbage” Tuesday. The remark was in response to a comedian calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York City last weekend.
Some Trump supporters came in wearing high-visibility vests in reference to Biden’s comments. On stage, Brown took off his suit jacket to reveal a similar vest to the crowd’s cheers.
“We know it’s what they believe because look at how they’ve treated you.
They treat you like garbage,” Trump said.
“For the last nine years, Kamala and her party have called us racists, bigots, fascists, deplorables, irredeemables, even Nazis.”
Harris’ message didn’t change in her three campaign stops.
“He simply does not respect the freedom of women or the intelligence of women to know what’s in their own best interests and make decisions accordingly.
But we trust women,” Harris said.
Harris has repeatedly said during the campaign that she would be a president for all Americans, regardless of whether they voted for her. She continued that message Thursday. “I pledge to listen to people who disagree with me and unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe that people who disagree with me are the enemy,” Harris said in Phoenix. “He wants to put them in jail, I’ll give them a seat at the table because that’s how democracy works and that’s how real leaders work.” kyle.chouinard@gmgvegas.com / 702- 990-8923 / @Kyle_Chouinard haajrah.gilani@gmgvegas.com / 702- 990-8923 / @haajrahgilani