Former President Donald Trump suggested his supporters in Nevada vote as if he were “losing” in order to encourage voter turnout.
Trump was in Reno Sunday to rally support for his campaign. During his speech, Trump listed the number of leads he currently has in polls. The former president followed up the barrage of information with a recommendation that his voters disregard his lead.
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“But here’s the thing you got to do is you got to just go vote. Don’t think about it. Pretend we’re tied. Pretend we’re losing by three [points],” Trump said. “You gotta do this, because you know the worst [thing] is everyone thinks: Oh, what do we have to vote for? Trump is killing them. And then bad things happen. Pretend we’re losing. Assume that we’re down by three, four, or five.”
In 2020, Trump narrowly lost Nevada to President Joe Biden, who earned 50.1% of the vote. Years later, Trump has refused to concede the race and still refers to the election as “rigged.”
“The Bloomberg Morning Consult Poll has us beating crooked Joe in every single swing state by a lot, but with all of that, they cheat like hell. So we have to get out. We got to watch them,” Trump said. “The radical left Democrats rigged the presidential election of 2020, we’re not going to allow them to rig the presidential election of 2024.”
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The New Hampshire primary is the first in the nation, following the caucuses in Iowa on Jan. 15, 2024. Trump has maintained the lead there, with Nikki Haley in a solid second place, according to RealClearPolitics.
Trump has kept a massive lead in the polls for the GOP presidential nomination despite the various indictments against him, which include allegedly mishandling classified documents and subverting the 2020 presidential election. He has pleaded not guilty to all 91 felony charges against him.
