[The stream is slated to start at 4 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Former President Barack Obama is set to take the stage in Las Vegas on Monday to support Nevada Democrats. Chief among them is Jacky Rosen, who is gunning for GOP incumbent Sen. Dean Heller's seat. The most recent snapshot of the race from RealClearPolitics shows a toss-up, though the polling average gives Heller a slight edge. The rally shows the latest push from President Donald Trump's predecessor to get out the vote ahead of the November midterm elections, where Democrats look to re-take majorities in at least one house of Congress. The rally will be held at Cox Pavilion at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Former Vice President Joe Biden tore into Trump when he visited Vegas over the weekend, telling the crowd that American values are "being shredded by a president who is all about himself."<doc-sep>Former President Barack Obama told thousands of Nevadans on Monday that they can’t stay out of this election if they want changes in the White House and Congress. Former President Barack Obama visits Las Vegas to encourage people to vote early for the midterm elections. Nathan Asselin/ Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama visits Las Vegas to encourage people to vote early for the midterm elections. Nathan Asselin/ Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama speaks during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal People clamor to shake hands with Former President Barack Obama at a rally in support of candidate for Senate Jacky Rosen and other Nevada Democrats, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) Former President Barack Obama meets with people at a rally for Senate candidate Jacky Rosen and other Nevada Democrats, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) Former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally in support of candidate for Senate Jacky Rosen and other Nevada Democrats, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak, left, former President Barack Obama and Democratic Congresswoman Jacky Rosen salute the crowd during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with the crowd at Cox Pavilion after a rally on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama speaks during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Deb Lomando, middle, listens to former President Barack Obama speak during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama, middle, speaks during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Attendees listen to former President Barack Obama speak during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama speaks during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Victoria Vance, left, listens to former President Barack Obama speak during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama speaks during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with the crowd at Cox Pavilion after a rally on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Attendees listen to former President Barack Obama speak during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama speaks during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama speaks during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama speaks during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama speaks during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama speaks during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with the crowd at Cox Pavilion after a rally on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama, middle, speaks during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama speaks during a rally at Cox Pavilion on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with the crowd at Cox Pavilion after a rally on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal Former President Barack Obama reacts as he walks on stage at a rally in support of candidate for Senate Jacky Rosen and other Nevada Democrats, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) People listen as former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally in support of candidate for Senate Jacky Rosen and other Nevada Democrats, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) Former President Barack Obama, second from left, cheers at a rally in support of Clark County Commission Chair and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Steve Sisolak, left, candidate for Senate Jacky Rosen, third from left, Susie Lee, Democratic candidate for Nevada's third congressional district, second from right, Steven Horsford, candidate for Nevada's fourth congressional district, right, and other Nevada Democrats, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) Former President Barack Obama told thousands of Nevadans on Monday that they can’t stay out of this election if they want changes in the White House and Congress. “The biggest threat to our democracy is indifference,” Obama told 2,000 people at Cox Pavilion at UNLV. “The biggest threat to our democracy is cynicism that says we’re just going to stay home because my voice doesn’t matter.” The former president, who stopped in Las Vegas to stump for Nevada Democrats, said he won states and the presidency because 10 extra people in each precinct voted for him. “Don’t tell me your vote doesn’t count,” Obama said. “If you don’t like what’s going on right now — and you shouldn’t — don’t complain. Don’t get anxious. Don’t throw up your hands. Don’t boo. Vote.” Obama campaigned for the entire Democratic ticket, with a strong focus on Rep. Jacky Rosen, who is vying to unseat Republican Sen. Dean Heller, and Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak, who faces a tight race for governor against Republican Attorney General Adam Laxalt. Rather than be a check on “corrupt politics,” Obama said without naming names, Republicans in Congress have gone along with the president. “The current senator, he doesn’t seem to be willing to stand up to this,” Obama said of Heller. “He just goes along even when you get a sense that he knows it’s not right.” Obama said Republicans “are coming after health care again” if they keep Congress and that none of the GOP health care bills protect people with pre-existing conditions. Obama added that said Republicans take credit for today’s booming economy, but he turned the tide during his presidency. “When I walked into office 10 years ago, we were in the middle of the worst economic crisis of our lifetime,” he said. “That’s the last time the other party was in charge of things.” Donning a red “UR FIRED 2020” hat, Las Vegas resident Andrea Weinberger waited since 9 a.m. to see the former president. “I’ve never felt so disconnected from the decisions that are being made by this president,” she said. “It doesn’t feel like the country I grew up in at all.” Weinberger, who works in jewelry design, said she saw Obama in 2008 when he was running for president and said he stands for hope, change and equality. “I think he’s absolutely brilliant,” Weinberger said. “He stands for class, he’s well-spoken and charismatic.” Obama focused his get-out-the-vote message Monday on young people who he said will shape the country’s future — including his two daughters. “I have to tell them sometimes that your generation is the one that is going to determine the direction of America for the next 50, 6o, 70 years,” Obama said. “And right now too many young people don’t vote.” J Balvin, Salt-N-Pepa featuring DJ Spinderella, DJ D-Miles and actress America Ferrera thrilled the crowd before Obama took the stage Monday. And he’s here: @RosenforNevada just introduced @BarackObama, who told the crowd to “sit down because I’ve got a lot to say.” Someone shouted “we miss you!” “I miss you too,” he said. pic.twitter.com/2HUY3L5cVq — Ramona Giwargis (@RamonaGiwargis) October 22, 2018 Salt-N-Peppa performed their hit “Whatta Man” — which they dedicated to Obama — before leading the crowd in a thumping rendition of “Push It.” Other top Democrats at the rally include Rep. Dina Titus, who is seeking re-election, and congressional candidates Susie Lee and Steven Horsford, who are running for two open House seats. And of course @BarackObama t-shirts are on sale outside the pavilion. People leaving the rally say they were energized by Obama’s words. “He restored my hope,” one woman said. pic.twitter.com/fJcPLt6oIh — Ramona Giwargis (@RamonaGiwargis) October 22, 2018 State Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford, the Democratic nominee for attorney general, and Assemblyman William McCurdy II, who chairs the Nevada State Democratic Party, were also in attendance Monday. Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald was dismissive of Obama’s attempts to energize Democrats. “Thanks to President Trump and our Republican Congress, though, we are seeing more jobs and more take-home pay and most importantly, we’re finally getting some of our confidence back,” McDonald said in a statement. “Obama has no business coming out here in support of candidates who will reverse all of that progress.” Following the rally, Suynn Davis, 62, an Air Force veteran, said Obama has restored her hope. “He has sparked us,” Davis said. “Barack won Nevada twice. This is the energy we needed to go back to being hopeful and positive.” Contact Ramona Giwargis at rgiwargis@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-4538. Follow @RamonaGiwargis on Twitter.<doc-sep>
LAS VEGAS — Former president Barack Obama was onstage at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Monday, doing a familiar, uncomfortable job. He was here to rally Democrats and to fight cultural tides the party didn’t quite anticipate. It’s a pattern that began in Massachusetts back in early 2010, when Obama flew to Boston to save a special election that had come out of nowhere to nearly kill Obamacare's chances in the Senate. Here in Nevada, the Trump moment that was supposed to sweep Sen. Dean Heller away seems instead to have kept the Republican senator alive in Nevada, a state Hillary Clinton won two years ago. “The current senator — he doesn’t seem to be willing to stand up to this,” Obama told an audience of 2,000 in a gymnasium, avoiding mentioning the senator by name, and adopting a tone of amused disappointment. “He just goes along — even when you get a sense that he knows it’s not right.” Obama spent much of his speech on a long defense of his own presidency, and condemnation of Republican governance. “When you hear all this talk about ‘economic miracles’ right now, remember who started it,” Obama said. He denounced Trump’s attempts to pressure the FBI and Department of Justice to target political foes. “That is not how America works. That is how some tin-pot dictatorship works,” he said. But Obama didn’t come to Nevada to make news, and he mostly didn’t. This is the box he’s in now. Even as he’s edged away from the tradition of post-presidential silence, there’s a more practical reason for his muted campaigning: He’s said to be afraid his presence would backfire, give Trump a foil, and energize the Republicans who Democrats hope will stay home in November. The voters here were happy to see him. The vintage hip-hop act Salt-N-Pepa opened up by dedicating the song “Whatta Man” to Obama. The young Nevada Democratic Party chair, William McCurdy, couldn’t contain his excitement: He’d never met Obama before, he said, and stressed that the former president’s role was to “rally [the] voters.” That rallying is, in Nevada, very focused on young Latinos, who make up the Democrats’ edge here — if they vote. The headliner to that effect was the reggaeton star J Balvin. “If we can’t find a way to activate the largest and fastest-growing demographic in this country, there’s no way we can take our country back,” actor America Ferrera told the crowd. Obama and Democrats here are up against a Republican campaign in Nevada that embodies the surprisingly durable politics of Trump’s party. A little over a year ago, Heller seemed doomed: He had vocally opposed Donald Trump in 2016, declaring himself “100% against Clinton, 99% against Trump.” (He granted nine months after the election that he had voted for Trump.) Now Heller is an emblem of everything going right for the party of Trump: a president who finds it possible to focus, and forgive, on politics; and a renewed cultural backlash that has helped Republicans across the country. Heller embodies his party: The senator flirted with independence, and Trump openly threatened him into supporting the unpopular attempt to repeal Obamacare. Then Heller spent time with Trump after the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, and found his way back into the president’s good graces. He has stopped criticizing the president, started voting with him, and been rewarded by political support. “Everything you touch turns to gold,” Heller told Trump the other day. Nevada Rep. Jacky Rosen, in Las Vegas Monday, repeated that line. “Seriously,” she marveled. “He said that.”