Christian Smith
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former President Donald Trump rallied voters in the scorching heat of Las Vegas, at times telling his supporters to call for help if needed and appearing irritated by teleprompters that he said were not working.
The presumptive Republican nominee’s campaign hired extra doctors, carried ventilators and bottled water and allowed supporters to carry umbrellas to an outdoor rally Sunday in Las Vegas, where temperatures surpassed 37.8 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit). ).
“I don’t want anyone to attack me. We need every voter. I do not care about you. I just want your vote,” he said, adding that he was joking.
At the beginning of his speech, he said the campaign would offer help to people who felt tired and joked that “everyone,” including the US Secret Service, was worried about the safety of the crowds and not him.
“They never mentioned me. I’m here sweating like a dog,” he said. “This is hard work.”
Trump returned to Nevada, one of the key battleground states in November’s election, for his second rally since being found guilty in a money-hiding scandal.
The unprecedented conviction of a former president has boosted Trump’s fundraising and galvanized his supporters, but it remains to be seen whether it will sway undecided voters. Trump is scheduled to be interviewed by New York parole officials via video conference on Monday, a mandatory step before his sentencing in July.
Temperatures in the Southwest have cooled since reaching all-time highs late last week, but remained above normal for this time of year and surpassed 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) at the rally, which took place in a sparsely shaded park near the airport. .
At the beginning of his speech, Trump said that it was “not as bad” as he thought it would be, and said that he was more angry about the fact that teleprompters did not work well, even when he used to mock President Barack Obama for trusting that device.
“I pay teleprompters all this money, and I would say 20 percent of the time they don’t work,” he said, adding that he wouldn’t pay the vendor to provide the prompts. “It’s a mess.”
Campaign organizers handed out bottles of water as supporters waited in line to be screened by security officers. Inside the venue, large misting fans, water pallets and cooling tents were placed around the perimeter. Clouds rolled in and a breeze picked up about two hours before Trump was scheduled to take the stage, bringing a semblance of relief from the oppressive sun.
“This is a dry heat. This is nothing to the people of Las Vegas,” said Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald. “But what this symbolizes for the rest of America – we will walk through hell” to elect Donald Trump.
McDonald and five other Republicans were accused of presenting certificates to Congress falsely declaring Trump the winner of the 2020 Nevada presidential election and their trial was postponed until next year.
Trump said that the protesters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 were “victims” of a “setup”.
“They were really, more than anything else, victims of what happened. All they were doing was protesting a fraudulent election. That’s what they were doing. And then the police say, come in, come in, come in, come in,” he said. “What a setup that was. A horrible, horrible thing.
The conspiracy theory that the January 6 protesters were encouraged by authorities is widespread on the right, but has no basis in fact. Many of those who were at the Capitol on January 6 said – proudly, publicly, repeatedly – that they did so to help the then-president.
Federal and state election officials and Trump’s own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence that the 2020 election was tainted. The former president’s allegations of fraud have also been rejected by the courts, including Trump-appointed judges.
The campaign paid for additional EMS services to be on site in the event of an emergency. The Secret Service made an exception to allow people to bring personal water bottles and umbrellas. Food trucks sold crushed ice and huge glasses of lemonade.
“You know what? It’s worth it,” said Camille Lombardi, a 65-year-old retired nurse from suburban Las Vegas’ Henderson, who was seeing Trump in person for the first time. “Too bad it wasn’t indoors, but everything good.”
During a Trump rally in Arizona on Thursday, the Phoenix Police Department said 11 people were transported to hospitals, treated and released for heat exhaustion. Many of Trump’s supporters waited in line for hours and some were unable to get in before the venue reached maximum capacity. The temperature reached a record 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius) that day.
Trump’s rally in Nevada, his third in the state this year, came at the end of an upset in the West that included several high-dollar fundraisers where he was expected to raise millions of dollars.
Democrat Hillary Clinton won Nevada in 2016, as did President Joe Biden in 2020, but Nevada was the only swing state where Trump did better against Biden than Clinton. In the 2022 midterm elections, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, was the only incumbent governor not to be re-elected.
Trump hopes his strength among working-class voters and growing interest among Latinos will push him to victory in the state.
In a move for Nevada’s huge service sector workforce, Trump said he would seek to eliminate taxes on tips, an important source of income for waiters, bartenders and others who supply Las Vegas’ luxury hotels.
His campaign announced a renewed push for Hispanic voters ahead of the event with a Latin Americans for Trump Coalition. Four of the speakers who warmed up the crowd before Trump took the stage were Hispanic immigrants. _____
Gomez Licon reported from Miami.
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