Obama to visit Las Vegas on Friday
President Barack Obama is expected to visit Las Vegas on Friday, stopping here after Republicans swept all top state offices and took control of the Legislature in the Nov. 4 election.
No details were available about the president’s visit.
GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval was easily re-elected with more than 70 percent of the vote, leading the GOP wave. The governor also donated money to other GOP candidates and to a political action committee that ran ads against Democrats running for the state Senate.
Nevada is a battleground state and Obama needs to boost the Democratic Party before the 2016 election where voters will determine who will succeed Obama in the White House. At this point former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is leading the pack even before announcing whether she’s running.
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