Former President Donald Trump heading to Las Vegas for campaign event
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks after he wins the Nevada caucuses during a watch party at Treasure Island Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024.
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Former President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally at 12 p.m. June 9 at Sunset Park in Las Vegas, his campaign said today.
It will be his first appearance here since Feb. 8, when he spoke to supporters at a reception on the Strip after winning the Nevada GOP’s independently-run presidential caucuses.
Trump will appear here two days before the primary election, where Republicans are picking candidates to advance to the general election in U.S. Senate and U.S House races. Trump has yet to make a primary endorsement.
Of course, he’s been busy with legal troubles.
A jury in New York on Thursday found Trump guilty on 34 charges of falsifying business records in a plan to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election.
Trump will surely be a regular visitor to Las Vegas in the months leading to November’s presidential election.
Nevada is a swing state and Trump is narrowly polling ahead of President Joe Biden in their election rematch. In 2020, Biden beat Trump here by about 30,000 votes.
Biden’s reelection campaign called Trump a threat to democracy in a statement Thursday following his guilty verdicts.
“He is running an increasingly unhinged campaign of revenge and retribution, pledging to be a dictator ‘on day one’ and calling for our Constitution to be ‘terminated’ so he can regain and keep power,” the Biden-Harris campaign said in a statement. “A second Trump term means chaos, ripping away Americans’ freedoms and fomenting political violence — and the American people will reject it this November.”