Romney making another campaign stop in Las Vegas

GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney will campaign in Las Vegas on Friday, returning to Nevada on the day new state unemployment figures are scheduled to be released, a source confirmed Saturday.

Romney's visit will come in the week after President Barack Obama campaigned Wednesday in the battleground state, hit hard by the recession that began before the president took office. No details were available on Saturday.

The campaign stop will happen four weeks before early voting begins Oct. 20 in Nevada, ahead of the Nov. 6 election.

The unemployment rate in Nevada climbed to 12 percent in July - and 12.9 percent in Clark County - according to figures released last month. In Las Vegas alone, 126,800 people were without jobs.

Although the state economy is adding jobs, it hasn't been fast enough to lower unemployment.

During Romney's most recent visit to Nevada seven weeks ago on Aug. 3, he spoke at a trucking company in North Las Vegas, a city in such dire straits that officials declared a fiscal disaster.

"We thought things would be better, but they're not," Romney said then.

The GOP challenger has since continued the theme that Nevadans and other Americans aren't better off since Obama took office. The president has argued his economic policies will work given more time.

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