Ranchers for Trump rally held in Fallon

Speaker after speaker talked Saturday about the importance of agriculture and the importance of electing Donald Trump to another term for president.

A Ranchers for Trump rally also sponsored roping events and a cattle sale as part of the one-day event at the Rafter 3C Complex. All livestock were donated.

Speakers such as for interior Secretary David Bernhardt and Mercedes and Matt Schlapp headlined the rally at the Nevada Livestock Marketing in the afternoon.

Jack Payne, owner and operator of Nevada Livestock Marketing, told the Lahontan Valley News before the speakers took to the stage the purpose of the roping and sale is to raise money for the Trump campaign as he’s seeking a second term.

“We know what’s going to happen if he’s not elected,” Payne said, adding the beef industry will be in serious trouble if he’s not elected.

Payne said the Democratic challenger and current vice president, Kamala Harris, wants to limit or ban consumption to one day a week. According to various news sources, Harris said during her 2020 Democratic presidential bid, the government needs to play a major role in limiting consumers’ red meat consumption to combat climate change.

“We’d be bootlegging beef like the old moonshiners,” Payne said. “Can you imagine that? That’s all in the name of global warming.”

Payne said the talk on global warming is nothing more than a hoax.

“It’s a tool to control food,” he said.

According to Payne, ranchers are the last independent people. When people in the cities need food, Payne said they’re going to see the ranchers and food producers.

“We are the true environmentalists,” Payne stressed. “We want to take care of the range land so we can keep raising cattle.”

Payne called the people who want to limit the raising of cattle or eliminate it are being hypocrites. He said they are the same people who eat beef, but they fly in private jets.

Payne also touted the importance of beef, saying it’s a key ingredient for America to become healthy again.

The other speakers’ topics ranged from election to conservatism.

Bernhardt, who became secretary of the Department of the Interior in 2019, said Trump cares about the people and about Fallon. He also told story about his confirmation hearing and the dialogue between him and U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat.

Bernhardt said he explained to Schumer the importance of multiple uses on public lands.

“The future of communities in the West depends on the choices made on the lands,” he pointed out.

Bernhardt said the senior senator from New York wasn’t sympathetic to the plight of westerners and to their hopes and dreams. He said Schumer told him there aren’t’ many people who live in the West.

Bernhardt said he truly believes voters in rural America will send Trump back to the White House.

Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, is no stranger to Nevada politics. He has been a speaker at the Basque Fry, an event in Gardnerville, that promotes Republican candidates.

Mercedes Schlapp, a former senior adviser and Newsmax contributor, said she and her husband were in Fallon in 2020.

Matt Schlapp said the Democrats have a belief of not following the law, while his wife, a former senior adviser and Newsmax contributor, advocated for judges do their jobs and public officials stand up. Matt Schlapp previously said Nevada had voting irregularities and thousands of voters shouldn’t have voted after the 2020 elections. Those claims, though, were struck down by both the state attorney general and Republican secretary of state.

Schlapp claimed what people saw in Nevada was occurring in Georgia with vote counts.

He also encouraged attendees not to give up on the county, but he added Americans won’t allow the invasion of immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border affect the country.

In their travels around the world, Matt Schlapp said people in foreign lands ask what’s wrong with the United States.

“They’re worried about America because they feel we’re chucking it (way of life) away,” he said. “Everybody loves freedom. They (foreigners) may not love everything about America, but without America, they say we’re doomed.”

Mercedes Schlapp, though, said it was a coup when Democrats removed President Joe Biden for seeking a second term and then threw “cackling” Kamala Harris on the stage to run for president. She said Nevada is one of the states to vote against Harris.