Former President Donald Trump speaks at the America First rally to show support for Nevada Republican gubernatorial candidate Joe Lombardo and Republican Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt at Treasure Island Friday, July 8, 2022.
Published Friday, Sept. 30, 2022 | 11:38 a.m.
Updated Friday, Sept. 30, 2022 | 12:06 p.m.
With fewer than six weeks to go before the Nov. 8 general election, Donald Trump will hold a rally in Northern Nevada next week for many of the state’s Republican candidates vying for office, according to an event page on the former president’s website.
Trump’s “Save America” rally will be held at the Minden-Tahoe Airport on Oct. 8, according to the website entry. Doors open at 2 p.m., and the event is scheduled to start at 7 p.m.
Brian Freimuth, a spokesman for GOP Senate hopeful Adam Laxalt, confirmed Laxalt will be attending the rally. “We look forward to welcoming President Trump back to Nevada,” Freimuth said.
A spokesperson for Republican gubernatorial candidate Joe Lombardo’s campaign did not return a request for comment.
In a statement, a campaign spokesman for Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto — whom Laxalt is running to unseat — slammed the move, calling Laxalt “Trump’s top lackey” in Nevada.
“No one did more to overturn the 2020 election for Donald Trump than Adam Laxalt, and he is once again being rewarded,” Cortez Masto spokesman Josh Marcus-Blank said. “Laxalt has made it clear he will break the rules and go even further than Trump to gain power, but Nevadans have rejected them both before and will reject them again in November.”
Reeves Oyster, spokeswoman for incumbent Gov. Steve Sisolak’s campaign, said in a statement, “Joe Lombardo is calling in backup after another abysmal week on the campaign trail where he was caught trying to rewrite his entire anti-abortion record and called out — again — for rising crime on his watch.”
“But one thing is still clear: no amount of Trump visits will cover up the fact that Joe Lombardo is another anti-abortion, corrupt, failed politician who will do or say anything to win,” Oyster said.
Laxalt served as the co-chair of Trump’s 2020 reelection bid in Nevada and launched several lawsuits aiming to overturn the election’s results. President Joe Biden bested Trump by 33,596 votes, or 2.9%, in Nevada. Virtually all of the lawsuits filed by Laxalt or other conservatives seeking to reverse the results of the election were overturned.
