Harris, Trump roll the dice with Sin City voters in final campaign push — as early voting shows a huge shift

LAS VEGAS — Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump are rolling nan dice successful Sin City this week arsenic they play a high-stakes lucifer for swing-state Nevada’s six Electoral College votes.

And early-voting information bespeak Republicans are nan ones holding nan basking dice.

Las Vegas is nan bosom of voter-rich Clark County: 70% of nan state’s 1.9 million registered and progressive voters reside here.

Unsurprisingly, nan campaigns person made clip for galore stops present — particularly pinch nan RealClearPolitics polling mean giving Trump a slim 0.7-point Silver State lead — and scheme much successful nan race’s last week.

More than 30% of registered Nevada voters person already formed their ballots, pinch much room to turn betwixt now and Friday, erstwhile early voting ends.

Republicans are starring Democrats successful early ballots statewide and down by conscionable nether 6,000 ballots successful monolithic Clark County. 

That’s a immense displacement successful support.

Four years ago, Democrats had an early-voting lead of 54,000 ballots statewide and 66,000 successful Clark County — meaning that county’s Democratic “firewall” is one-tenth nan size today.

Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump, nan ex-prez’s daughter-in-law, will meet pinch women voters astatine a country-music barroom successful municipality Tuesday.

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will rally younker support that aforesaid time astatine nan University of Nevada, Las Vegas, followed by a Wednesday quality astatine an early-voting event.

Both candidates themselves will swoop into Las Vegas for run events connected Halloween.

Harris will pitchy present for a rally pinch Mexican popular set Maná aft she appeals for votes successful nan bluish Nevada metropolis of Reno.

Her past sojourn to Las Vegas was for a Univision town-hall broadcast Oct. 10, wherever a elector finally forced nan veep to address what she conceded was an “unprecedented” information route

Trump will look astatine an indoor arena a municipality complete successful Henderson for what’s apt to beryllium a large, high-energy arena akin to his Oct. 24 rally UNLV rally, where he promised to call Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky connected predetermination nighttime if he wins to jumpstart an extremity to Russia’s invasion.

Trump, shown astatine 1 of respective Las Vegas run stops, will speak successful Henderson, nan metropolis adjacent door, connected Halloween. Getty Images

Harris, who past visited Vegas for a Univision municipality hall, will again tribunal nan Hispanic ballot connected Halloween. REUTERS

Democrats request nonpartisans — Nevada’s moniker for those without a statement registration — to ballot heavy successful their favour to triumph nan state, concludes seasoned Nevada governmental newsman Jon Ralston.

And that is not a lock.

Ralston says Democrats “have to commencement changing nan electorate much to person a chance” fixed nan steep likelihood of an Election Day turnaround pinch independent voters.

But he besides believes 2024 “is a unicorn year” for Nevada voting patterns.

“It’s nary wonderment immoderate Republicans are irrationally exuberant — aliases is it rationally exuberant?”