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First lady Jill Biden speaks during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, to celebrate women’s history month.
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First Lady Jill Biden will be in Las Vegas on Saturday as part of an effort to engage women voters in swing states, according to a statement from President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign.
The weekend swing, which will also include stops in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin, will kick off the first lady’s Women for Biden-Harris campaign and underscores Nevada’s importance for the president’s electoral success this year.
The Las Vegas stop coincides with the start of Women’s History Month and aims to energize women volunteers.
“Women put Joe in the White House four years ago, and women will do it again,” Jill Biden said in a statement.
“In our communities, women are the organizers, the planners, the mobilizers. We get things done,” she said. “That’s exactly why we’re launching Women for Biden-Harris now – because when women organize, we win.”
Further details of the first lady’s visit were not immediately available.
Her visit comes less than a month after her husband held a rally in Las Vegas before Nevada’s presidential preference primary.
Vice President Kamala Harris has also made two appearances in Nevada this year.
Joe Biden is the presumed Democratic nominee and easily won the Feb. 6 Nevada primary with about 89% of the vote.
Biden on Tuesday also finished first in the Michigan Democratic Primary, with 81% of the vote, but more than 100,000 votes were cast for “uncommitted” in a move seen as a protest designed to push the president to call for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas.
CNN exit polling from the 2020 election showed 54% of women voters supported Biden over then-President Donald Trump, who is widely anticipated to be this year’s Republican presidential nominee.
Nevada is also shaping up to be a critical swing state for the 2024 presidential race.
A poll released last week by Emerson College that surveyed 1,000 likely Nevada voters showed 46% of respondents supporting Trump and 40% supporting Biden in a hypothetical matchup. About 14% of respondents were undecided.
The same poll, released in conjunction with KLAS-TV and The Hill, also found Trump’s lead increases to about 10 percentage points when minor party candidates are factored into the polling.
Under those circumstances, 6% of those surveyed supported Robert Kennedy Jr., 1% supported Cornel West or Jill Stein and 13% remained undecided.
