Fight Night
Political Heavyweights Donald Trump, Bill Clinton Hit Las Vegas
The leading presidential campaigns descend on Nevada a month before it becomes the first Western state to cast votes in this year’s races.
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Donald Trump threw punches at Republican rivals Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush in a Las Vegas rally, while former President Bill Clinton, speaking nearby, slammed Republicans for preying on middle-class voters’ fears, as the leading presidential campaigns descended on Nevada a month before it becomes the first Western state to cast votes in this year’s races.
Held at opposite ends of the famed Las Vegas Strip, the dueling rallies highlighted the importance of Nevada in both the Republican and Democratic nominating cycles, even as most of the political class remains fixated on Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucus Feb. 1 and the New Hampshire primary eight days later.