Former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn’t hold back when discussing Nevada’s importance in the push to keep President Joe Biden in the White House.
“Nevada is central — Nevada will lead us to victory in November,” Pelosi said Saturday at the MGM Grand during the Nevada Democratic Convention.
Nevada is one of the six swing states that will likely decide the presidential race between Biden and former President Donald Trump. The Democrat has won the past four presidential elections in Nevada, but it's been close — Biden in 2020 beat Trump by about 30,000 votes in the Silver State.
And Biden is trailing 13% points behind Trump among likely voters here, according to a New York Times poll released on Monday. Democrats at the convention dismissed Republicans as being out-of-touch to the state’s true interests.
“I know that’s not right, and I know if they could see all of you here, feel the commitment and excitement, they would know that’s not right,” U.S. Rep. Dina Titus said during the event.
Speakers at the event, including U.S. Reps. Susie Lee and Steven Horsford, highlighted the party’s goals, such protecting women reproductive rights in the state and country.
“The same forces behind the lawsuit that brought the Supreme Court decision to end Roe are trying to pass a federal ban on abortion and deny women the freedom to make their own health care decisions about everybody, including for contraception,” Horsford said.
Party leadership said they are united here and will work together over the next few months to keep Biden in office.
“Nevada’s a battleground state, it always has been a battleground state, and we’re battle-tested,” said party Assemblywoman Daniele Monroe-Moreno, the party’s chairwoman.