Donald Trump gambling on winning Nevada from Democrats

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>President Donald Trump has gone to Nevada for the weekend&comma; looking to expand his path to victory while unleashing a torrent of unsubstantiated claims that Democrats were trying to steal the election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump defied local authorities by holding a Saturday night rally in tiny Minden after his initial plan to hold one in Reno was stopped out of concern it would have violated coronavirus health guidelines&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Unleashing 90-plus minutes of grievances and attacks&comma; Mr Trump claimed the state’s Democratic governor tried to block him and repeated his false claim that mail-in ballots would taint the election result&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is the guy we are entrusting with millions of ballots&comma; unsolicited ballots&comma; and we’re supposed to win these states&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Who the hell is going to trust him&quest;” Mr Trump said of Governor Steve Sisolak&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The only way the Democrats can win the election is if they rig it&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Just landed&comma; see you soon Minden&comma; Nevada&period; MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN&excl; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;cUQxBeK3hQ">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;cUQxBeK3hQ<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Donald J&period; Trump &lpar;&commat;realDonaldTrump&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;realDonaldTrump&sol;status&sol;1304954913248522241&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">September 13&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As part of his ongoing crusade against mail-in voting&comma; lawyers for the president’s reelection campaign are urging a federal judge in Las Vegas to block a state law and prevent mail-in ballots from going to all active Nevada voters less than eight weeks before the election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Addressing a mostly mask-less crowd tightly packed together&comma; Mr Trump spoke in front of mountains draped in haze&comma; the scent of smoke in the air from wildfires raging a state away in California&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The president expressed his condolences to the victims but&comma; declaring that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t have to be nice anymore”&comma; focused on tearing into his Democratic opponent&comma; Joe Biden&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump claimed that the Democrat’s running mate&comma; Senator Kamala Harris&comma; would be president &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;in about a month” if Mr Biden won&comma; asserting that the former vice president would be but a figurehead and that Ms Harris would hold power&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He claimed that the media would treat Mr Biden &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;like Winston Churchill” if he was able to merely stand on the debate stage in three weeks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And embarking on a swing that would also include stops in Las Vegas and Phoenix&comma; Mr Trump mocked Mr Biden’s slower travel schedule&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You know where he is now&quest; He is in his damn basement again&excl;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And&comma; for good measure&comma; Mr Trump invoked his 2016 opponent&comma; Hillary Clinton&comma; leading the crowd to launch into its traditional &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Lock Her Up&excl;” chant&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The president claimed he usually tried to stop the chant but on Saturday declared&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t care if you say it anymore” and&comma; breaking yet another norm of the office&comma; suggested that Mrs Clinton &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;should be in jail&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump also offered a fierce defence of his handling of the pandemic&comma; which has killed more than 190&comma;000 Americans and still claims nearly 1&comma;000 lives a day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And he blamed Democratic governors across the nation&comma; including Mr Sisolak&comma; for deliberately slowing the pace of reopening their states to hurt his election chances&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>State Republicans claimed Mr Sisolak tried to stop the rally&comma; but the decision to cancel the Reno event was made by airport officials&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Sisolak has limited in-person gatherings indoors and outdoors to 50 people since May&comma; a recommendation based on White House reopening guidelines&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Privately&comma; the Trump campaign welcomed the fight&comma; believing it highlighted a reelection theme&colon; Mr Trump’s insistence that the nation has turned the corner on the pandemic&comma; while Democrats&comma; including Mr Biden and governors&comma; are hurting the nation’s economy and psyche with stringent restrictions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is the kind of political fight that Trump’s team relishes and underscores the growing importance of Nevada in Mr Trump’s quest for 270 electoral votes as the race looks tight in a number of pivotal states&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Several thousand people covered the tarmac in Minden&comma; including Tom Lenz&comma; 64&comma; of Sparks&comma; Nevada&comma; who said he did not vote for Mr Trump last time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But I will this time&period; I think he knows what he’s doing&comma;” said Mr Lenz&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He’s pro-faith&comma; pro-life&comma; he’s made more peace in the world&period; Biden can’t even talk&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump narrowly lost Nevada in 2016 to Mrs Clinton&comma; and the state has trended further toward the Democrats in the past decade&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But Mr Trump’s campaign has invested heavily in the state&comma; relying on its ground game to turn out voters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Democrats&comma; by contrast&comma; have largely relied on virtual campaign efforts during the pandemic&comma; save for the casino workers’ Culinary Union&comma; which has sent workers door to door&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e2964904ad3">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; 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