LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Calls from a Las Vegas church auditorium were answered Monday evening as volunteers from a political organization reached out to voters over the phone, hoping to sway undecided residents who lacked certain faith in their choices.
Volunteers from the American Christian Caucus, a conservative political group based in Nevada, gathered at Fervent, a Calvery Chapel, to review canvasing plans, place phone calls, and cure ballots. Jesus Marquez, executive director of American Christian Caucus, pointed to the volunteers as an example of the work left to be done—with only a few hours left before election day.
“We are organizing churches across the state to be mobilized and not just to get Christians out to vote,” he said. “That’s a huge part of our operation, given the fact that only 35% of Christians voted in 2022, but also to recruit volunteers from within the church to then go out and door knock, do canvassing, and phone banking.”
The organization has seen up to 60 volunteers show up at their events, according to Marquez, with up to 200 volunteers recruited from different churches across the valley. He told 8 News Now he still has faith that voters will show up and back not just the candidates they are endorsing but more so the reasons they are running.
“We’re focusing more on policy,” Marquez said. “One of the two issues that Latinos and other groups have been finding important is the economy, the cost of living, and the border. The border issue has actually become an incentive for Latinos to vote the way we are persuading them to vote.”
Marquez said even when the door knocking and phone calls are over Monday night, he expects the work won’t be over yet.
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Volunteers from the American Christian Caucus, a conservative political group based in Nevada, gathered at Fervent, a Calvery Chapel, to review canvasing plans, place phone calls, and cure ballots. (KLAS) -
Volunteers from the American Christian Caucus, a conservative political group based in Nevada, gathered at Fervent, a Calvery Chapel, to review canvasing plans, place phone calls, and cure ballots. (KLAS)
“I think we will see a better fruit after the election, hopefully on election night,” he said. “But if not, we’re ready to stay a few days after the election, counting and making sure that ballots are being counted.”
This story is meant to report how Republican leaning candidates and organizations took action in Southern Nevada before the election. Read here how Democratic groups gathered while in Las Vegas.
