The 2024 General Election

MESQUITE/BUNKERVILLE (VIRGIN VALLEY) & MOAPA VALLEY VOTER TURN-OUT: The link below is a great article reporting the voter turnout for Mesquite and surrounding areas by our local paper, The Progress. The Mesquite Republican Women’s Club is very proud that as reported, Virgin Valley reported 83% of Registered Voters showed up at the polls, a record-number and Moapa Valley (Moapa Town, Overton and Logandale combined), reported 82% of voters came out to vote. Click on this news article and check out the data as reported by The Progress, “Election Officials Release Voter Data by Precint”.

How did we do it? Our amazing Patriot Volunteers who had a passion to be a part of “Winning Red” — They committed, sacrificed, showed up and worked hard. We also couldn’t have achieved this success without the support we received from our local candidates who won all the Republican City seats as well as our district’s CCSD Trustee spot. We also owe a big thank you to the Clark County Republican Party, the Nevada GOP who provided Republican Candidate slate cards and materials and the exemplary leadership and training we received from the Trump Force 47 Team.

Team Trump Force 47 (TF47). It all started with four young college men who were selected by the Nevada GOP to lead our District’s “Trump Force 47” (TF47) headquarters. MRW Club volunteers helped get the office opened and hit the ground running with training our area representatives, along with hundreds of Clark County volunteers on how to secure President Trump’s Win. One leader, a Youth Pastor named Abraham Zamora, had a very specific challenge and was assigned to work with pastors by teaching them how they could lead their flock with an emphasis on conservative, faith & family-based values while maintaining their non-partisan stance and non-profit status as a church. Other TF47 leaders trained our door-knocking volunteers, precinct leaders and Precinct Captains. They got members set up as Poll Workers and covered Poll Watcher assignments as well. The TF47 team supplied our original group of 18 volunteers from Moapa Valley, Mesquite and Bunkerville with Trump Force 47 hats and t-shirts, bumper stickers, literature and thousands and thousands of Trump/Vance yard signs for us in our Campaign office, more than enough to post throughout our city and give away for free to anyone who asked. By election day, we had eight volunteers still hanging on, knocking on doors, handing out yard signs and posting them throughout our communities. Many team members also had the opportunity to work several Trump Rallys in Clark County which for all, was an experience of a lifetime.

Poll Watchers+Election Workers+Electioneering. Our community had many volunteers, members and non-members who worked as Poll Watchers during early voting and on election day. Some also applied for elections positions and were hired to work as election officials for early voting and on election day at polling locations throughout Mesquite, Bunkerville, Moapa Valley and greater Clark County/Las Vegas. We had quite a few volunteers to include our local candidates manning electioneering booths, greeting voters at the polls, giving away their yard signs and Trump/Vance yard signs as well, and made sure voters had a Republican candidate slate card to take with them as they cast their ballot in person. These electioneering volunteers showed up every day for five days during early voting in Mesquite and then another nine days in Las Vegas at six different locations (Vegas has 14 days of early voting). Electioneering days are long, from 6am set up to 7:30pm take down. Poll Watcher days can be long as well — some worked assigned shifts while a few worked polling locations from open to closing.

Campain Office. Once again as we do for all General Elections, the Club opened a campaign office in Mesquite. We were very honored to have so many volunteers manning the office for months. The office went from being open five days to six days a week, Monday-Saturday from 10am-4pm and we were busy every day – every shift. Our talented merchandiser, long-time club member Christina Balek along with member Sandy Sorenson, selected great items that were very popular, and made sure we were stocked with merchandise to support our club sales and make our visitors happy. Merchandise sales were very high thanks to these hardworking members!

We held our monthly meetings at the office in 2024 and supported several candidate events. The campaign office was stocked with candidate yard signs and literature for local, state and Federal candidates and as previously mentioned, a lot of Trump/Vance materials, bumper stickers, literature and yard signs. Volunteers assisted visitors with voter registration, information on Ballot questions, upcoming rallies and events and provided handouts regarding election locations, days and hours. The campaign office earned the reputation of being the “go-to place” and was so popular, visitors from Arizona and Utah made the trip to visit and guests included those “just passing through” that heard about us and stopped by.