President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday as the Southwest faces a scorching heat wave, but his campaign is taking precautions as thousands of people are expected to show up despite the extreme weather.
Temperatures are forecast to rise to just under 100 degrees in Nevada as supporters gather outside to hear the former president speak in Sunset Park, southeast of The Strip at noon.
By late afternoon, the scorching heat is expected to top 100 degrees to 104.
The event is part of the presumptive Republican presidential candidate’s three-day Western tour that included a campaign stop in Arizona, fundraising events in California and a rally in the battleground state.
In Arizona, eleven of Trump’s supporters had to be taken to the hospital for heat-related symptoms after lining up in the scorching heat to hear Trump speak at a Turning Point USA event Thursday in Phoenix.
Despite the heat, the crowd moved back throughout the park. Some fans carried umbrellas and huge hats to protect themselves from the intense sun.
Crowds of Trump supporters, some wearing large hats and umbrellas, have been waiting for hours to take part in the rally in Las Vegas. Temperatures are expected to top 100 degrees on Sunday in Nevada.
Some people told DailyMail.com they arrived as early as 3am to get into the Las Vegas event.
“The sun doesn’t bother me,” said Zach Hammond, 30, of Las Vegas. He claimed that Trump is dealing with a corrupt justice system. “If he can go through all that for us, then I can be out here in the heat for him.”
The Trump campaign said before the rally that it would take precautions ahead of the Las Vegas event, making water bottles available to attendees and allowing small umbrellas through security.
Large stacks of water bottles were placed throughout the event.
There will also be space for shaded and air-conditioned tents on a first-come, first-served basis, and medical staff will be available in case of emergencies.
Large cases of water were stacked outside Trump’s rally in Las Vegas on Sunday to help people stay hydrated as they waited in line for hours.
A woman’s hat falls off while standing next to a cooling station outside Trump’s rally in Las Vegas.
A woman protects herself from the sun with an umbrella while waiting to enter the rally
The crowd at Trump’s Sunset Park rally circled the pond. The heat in Las Vegas is expected to reach 100 degrees Sunday afternoon. The campaign said it was taking precautions due to extreme weather ahead of the rally.
Former President Donald Trump headlined a Turning Point USA event Thursday in Phoenix, where 11 of his supporters were hospitalized with heat-related illnesses after waiting outside.
People drinking water while visiting the iconic Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign on June 6. Temperatures are expected to reach 100 degrees as Trump holds a rally in the city on Sunday.
A Trump supporter is treated for exhaustion Thursday in Phoenix after crowds waited for hours outside the event, held at a megachurch, as temperatures reached 110 degrees.
It is Trump’s first visit to the state since he was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal the payment of money to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
But the conviction has not prevented his biggest supporters from going to the polls.
At the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, ahead of the former president’s visit, loyal supporters in red MAGA hats and other Trump 2024 teams milled around the lobby. Some flew in from as far away as New York and Minnesota.
At the bar, his supporters recalled seeing Trump in the past while drinking beer and mixed drinks.
One cocktail on the menu was even called “Death on Trial,” but the bartender said it’s not new despite the former president’s current legal troubles and now his conviction. The drink with a mixture of rum and lime juice is not bad at all on a hot day.
At one point, a crowd gathered in the lobby and onlookers pulled out their phones in preparation for a possible Trump sighting. The former president was in town Saturday night before the rally for a fundraiser with mega-donors.
Spectators gathered in the lobby of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas on Saturday hoping to catch a glimpse of the former president who was in town for a fundraiser before his Sunday rally.
But the crowd slowly dispersed as his supporters realized that the possibility of Trump making a grand entrance in the lobby at that moment was a false alarm.
Nevada is one of the biggest battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election. Biden won it in 2020 by fewer than 34,000 votes. But the pandemic and persistent inflation have taken their toll.
Nevada’s Senate race in the 2022 midterm elections was one of the closest in the country, and Nevadans elected a Republican governor that year.
A series of recent polls in the Silver State have Trump in the lead. The Fox News poll from early June puts Trump five points ahead, at 45 percent, to Biden’s 40 percent among registered voters.
