Former President Donald Trump spoke Sunday afternoon at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center for a Commit to Caucus event.
Thousands crowded into the convention center to see the former president, who spoke on an array of topics while painting the Biden Administration and the current state of the U.S. in a negative light.
"Biden's inflation catastrophe is demolishing your savings, ravaging your dreams. His sky high energy prices are brutalizing your wallets. Our border has been erased, we have no border any longer," said former President Donald Trump.
The event was dubbed the "Commit to Caucus" because Nevada Republicans have two nominating contests to choose from, those being the February 6th state mandated presidential preference primary and the February 8th Nevada GOP caucus.
Democratic Congressman Dina Titus criticized Trump and the Nevada GOP for holding their caucus two days after the state-mandated presidential preference primary.
"I think they've been too cute by half. They've complicated it. A lot of people say well, are we supposed to vote now? Are we supposed to go to the caucus? Who's going to win? How does our vote count? The more confusing you make voting, the more difficult it is for people to turn out. We should make it easier for people to vote and participate in the process," said (D-NV) U.S. Representative Dina Titus.
Titus also rebuked Trump's critiques of the Biden Administration.
"We went from the highest unemployment in the country to about four and a half percent, people are working, wages are up, inflation is going down. Donald Trump didn't do that; he left a mess here. And, what he is proposing is certainly not good for Nevadans, not good for Nevada women, not good for minorities, not good for people in the rurals. Remember, they got all that internet under the infrastructure bill," said Titus.
The Nevada GOP is calling for voters to participate in the caucus while skipping the primary, saying the caucus is the only contests where delegates will be awarded to the national convention.
"The caucus is transparent; you must show up with an ID paper ballot, and we have the results that same day. That's not true for the primary. The primary is little transparency, if any. Universal mail-in ballots with all the problems that has. And, you don't know the results for days and weeks after the closing of the polls," said Washoe County Republican Party Chairman Bruce Parks.
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Former president Donald Trump is speaking at a Commit to Caucus event in Reno Sunday afternoon.
The former president is set to speak at 2 p.m. at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.
Ahead of speaking, the Trump Campaign announced new endorsements from Nevada political figures.
State Senator Ira Hansen and Assemblywoman Alexis Hansen are among those who have endorsed the former president in his 2024 bid to retake the White House.
: “The Trump years were the best four years in living memory for the average working-class American like myself," said Hansen in a statement released by the Trump Campaign. "Our country has consistently been ripped off by foreign actors until President Trump was elected and immediately put a stop to it."
Other Nevada political figures to endorse the one-time president include State Senator Lisa Krasner, Assemblyman Ken Gray, former state senator Maurice Washington, former assemblyman John Ellison, Washoe County Commissioner Jeanne Herman, Storey County Commissioner Jay Carmona and Douglas County Commissioner Wes Rice among others.
