| | | Harris and Walz close out first week on campaign trail together at packed rally in Vegas
According to local press, 12,000 attended the rally on Saturday, leaving thousands waiting without a seat
11 August 2024
Capping their first week together on the campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz led a packed rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, filling every seat at the Thomas and Mack Center.
According to coverage of the rally by local outlets such as the Nevada Current, over 12,000 people attended the event, and an estimated 4,000 people were turned away by local law enforcement "over concerns people were overheating while waiting to get through event security in triple-digit heat."
With only 87 days until the election at the time of the rally, both the excitement and the crowd size associated with the Harris-Walz campaign has put a hitch in Donald Trump and JD Vance's giddyup, with Trump bemoaning his relatively puny turnout at recent events of his own.
At the Vegas rally, both Harris and Walz continued their established trend of focusing on the positive — a sharp contrast to Trump's recent rally in Montana, where he steered away from any talk of policy to call opposers "freakish" and make fun of their weight — with Walz telling the crowd that Harris and the campaign's supporters have reminded him that politics “can be about goodness.”
Capping their first week together on the campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz led a packed rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, filling every seat at the Thomas and Mack Center.
According to coverage of the rally by local outlets such as the Nevada Current, over 12,000 people attended the event, and an estimated 4,000 people were turned away by local law enforcement "over concerns people were overheating while waiting to get through event security in triple-digit heat."
With only 87 days until the election at the time of the rally, both the excitement and the crowd size associated with the Harris-Walz campaign has put a hitch in Donald Trump and JD Vance's giddyup, with Trump bemoaning his relatively puny turnout at recent events of his own.
At the Vegas rally, both Harris and Walz continued their established trend of focusing on the positive — a sharp contrast to Trump's recent rally in Montana, where he steered away from any talk of policy to call opposers "freakish" and make fun of their weight — with Walz telling the crowd that Harris and the campaign's supporters have reminded him that politics “can be about goodness.”
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