Donald Trump returning to Las Vegas for Friday rally at South Point
The Nevada GOP announced Sunday that Donald Trump will return to Las Vegas for a rally Friday.
The campaign event for the Republican presidential nominee will be at 2 p.m. at South Point Arena, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Doors open at 11 a.m., and admission is free. For more information, or to reserve a spot at the rally, visit donaldjtrump.com.
Trump also is scheduled to appear later Friday in Northern Nevada at the Nevada Battle Ground Dinner with Donald J. Trump at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, a limited-seating event sponsored by the Nevada Republican Party. For information on tickets, which range from $200 to $5,000 for a VIP table, go to eventbrite.com.
News of the visits comes on the heels of an eventful week in the Trump campaign in which there was a shakeup in the staff’s upper echelons. Chief strategist Paul Manafort resigned Friday. Earlier in the week, Kellyanne Conway was named campaign manager and Stephen Bannon, chairman of conservative website Breitbart News, was named chief executive.
Changes also were evident in recent Trump campaign rhetoric. For the first time, he said during a speech Thursday he regrets some of the comments he’s made that may have caused people pain.
In addition, Conway told an interviewer Trump is acting more presidential, referring to his trip to Louisiana to visit the victims of mass floods there.
The campaign also aired its first general election TV ad, which contrasts his strict approach to immigration with what he calls Hillary Clinton’s plan to do “more of the same, only worse.”
This first spot employs some of his signature lines, intoned by a narrator as images of what are supposed to be a crowd of Syrian refugees and border crossers being detained by police. It begins: “In Hillary Clinton’s America, the system stays rigged against Americans.”
In an interview with CNN, Conway acknowledged current polls showed Trump running behind Clinton, but she said that may be an advantage.
“I think it helps us to be a little bit behind, and we are. It lights a fire under us and reminds us what we need to do to get this done,” she told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota during an interview on “New Day.”
At a rally Friday in Dimondale, Mich., Trump contended that many black people are living in poverty, with poor schools and few jobs, in spite of supporting Democratic politicians for decades.
He asked the crowd, “What do you lose by trying something new like Trump?”
Trump last visited Las Vegas in June for a rally at TI.
