With less than a week until Election Day, Bill Clinton was in Nevada to help out scrambling Democrats.
The former president visited the town of Springs Preserve on Tuesday, stumping for embattled Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford.
Horsford is up against heavy spending from outside Republican and conservative groups eager to have him defeated by challenger Cresent Hardy.
“Whenever you see all these advertisements in campaigns designed to distract you, confuse you, get you down,” Clinton advised, according to the Las Vegas Sun, “you need to take a deep breath and think about what matters … You need to support these candidates.”
Early voting in Nevada began Oct. 18 and thus far favors the GOP, according to Nevada’s secretary of state.
Republicans lead Democrats in early, in-person voting by 46 to 37 percent and in mail-in voting by 48 to 37 percent, the latest report shows.
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Clinton certainly wasn’t shy about his predictions for if Republicans take office.
“What’s really on the ballot is whether we are going back to trickle down economics where only the rich get the benefit, which is what happened since I left office. Or whether we will have shared prosperity through shared opportunities and shared responsibilities,” he said.
He also described a “carefully orchestrated attempt” by Republicans to keep voters away from the polls by using ads focused on Ebola and Islamic terrorists.
A RealClearPolitics average of polls has Horsford’s 4th Congressional District leaning Democratic.
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House Republicans — who already have a majority in the House and are not in danger of losing it — would enjoy the seat pickup, as Democrats across the nation face harsh election realities.
Though Sen. Harry Reid and his Democratic politics are mostly commonly associated with Nevada, Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval is expected to easily win re-election and to set the stage to challenge Reid for his Senate seat in the coming years.
