For thousands of attendees at a Trump rally Thursday in Las Vegas, volunteers stood ready to collect mail-in ballots on-site.
The strategy is a major shift for Nevada Republicans, who opposed the legalization of ballot harvesting in 2020. Now, conservative activists and GOP operatives are leaning into the new rules, asking voters to bring ballots to rallies and doing whatever it takes to make it easy for Republicans to get their votes in early.
“We don’t like early voting, but it’s how the game is,” Turning Point Action Las Vegas field representative Schayden Gorai told the Daily Caller News Foundation, explaining these are “the rules that the Democrats have set.”
Early voting numbers have been strong for Republicans, who lead Democrats by nearly 24,000 votes between in-person and mail ballots as of Friday morning. If Democrats can’t change the current margins, which have them up in mail ballots but trailing Republicans by 25% for in-person early voting, longtime Nevada political reporter and editor of The Nevada Independent Jon Ralston wrote Thursday night the party is in “big, big trouble.”
Take a deeper look at Nevada — and what it could mean for the rest of the country.
Ds aren't showing up for @KamalaHarris. If that happens around the country, the missing red wave of 2022 could show up in 2024 as a tsunami.
These are the in-person early voting stats for 2024… https://t.co/S5gf6hYUzb pic.twitter.com/tQfR19c2oE
— Victor Joecks (@VictorJoecks) October 25, 2024
Former President Donald Trump—and others who spoke at the Turning Point-sponsored rally Thursday, including Vivek Ramaswamy, Charlie Kirk, and Tulsi Gabbard—urged supporters in the crowd to get out early and bring others along. […]
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