Nevada GOP official takes on role as Trump campaign adviser
Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald has taken on a new role as senior adviser to the Trump campaign, Clark County Republican Chairman Jesse Law announced at a Republican event Monday in Las Vegas.
McDonald, a close friend of former President Donald Trump and longtime chair of the state Republican Party, said he is honored to take on the new role, he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Tuesday. He had been volunteering with the campaign, and the new role is also a volunteer role, he said.
“This is something that is personal for me,” McDonald said. “I know the man personally. It’s not just a title, it’s a badge of honor to be able to be in this position, to be here for him and the Trump campaign.”
In his role, McDonald will help with “anything and everything” and “whatever the campaign needs” leading up to the November election, he said.
A Trump campaign official said McDonald has been with Trump since 2015 and brings “invaluable relationships and knowledge of the state that will help flip Nevada red for the first time since 2004.”
McDonald has served as chairman of the Nevada Republican Party since 2012. He was a main promoter of unfounded claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, and he was one of the six Republicans who signed fake electoral documents declaring Trump the winner of Nevada.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford had pursued criminal charges against him and the other Republicans involved, but a judge dismissed those charges in June due to a lack of jurisdiction.
Maddy Pawlak, Nevada communications director for the Biden-Harris campaign, criticized Trump for appointing one of his “fake electors” to run his campaign and said he is fixated on his 2020 election loss.
“Just last week on the debate stage, Trump refused to answer, three times in a row, whether he would accept the results of the election, and this latest hire in Nevada makes it clear Trump is solely focused on regaining power,” Pawlak said in a statement. “Trump already tried to overturn one election, and Nevadans need to come together to defeat him and protect democracy.”
Contact Jessica Hill at jehill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @jess_hillyeah on X.