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From joy and JLo to insults and ‘alpha males’: Harris and Trump zero in on Nevada

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From joy and JLo to insults and ‘alpha males’: Harris and Trump zero in on Nevada

Candidates for president hold duelling rallies in swing state, hoping to convince Latino voters ahead of next week’s US election

From the Rat Pack to Elvis, from fight night to the Sphere, Las Vegas serves up spectacle bigger and brasher than anywhere else. On Thursday the political circus came to Sin City as the US presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump held duelling campaign rallies here.

The events offered a tight focus on the contrast at the heart of next week’s election. Harris’s rally was a joyful affair, with mothers carrying infants on their shoulders, some supporters and volunteers sporting Halloween costumes and star turns by Mexican band Maná and Latina singer and actor Jennifer Lopez.

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