Las Vegas : Vice President Kamala Harris vowed Saturday that if elected, she would eliminate the federal tax on tips for restaurant workers and numerous other service employees, repeating a promise made by her November opponent, Donald Trump, in a rare moment of political overlap between the two sides.

Harris made the announcement at a rally on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a city whose economy relies heavily on the hotel, restaurant and entertainment industries. Trump made a similar promise at his own rally in the city in June, but without action from Congress, neither he nor Harris are likely to be able to fully follow through on that promise.

“I promise everyone here that when I am president, we will continue our fight for working families,” Harris said, promising to raise the minimum wage and eliminate tips for service and restaurant workers.

The Democratic presidential nominee and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, came to Nevada to be the latest stop in a blitzkrieg campaign that has seen her party show renewed energy after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris. On Sunday, the vice president is hosting a fundraiser in San Francisco that has already raised more than $12 million, her campaign said. Speakers will include House Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi.

Over 12,000 people were in the campus basketball arena, and before the event began, police decided to close the doors to the event because people had become ill while waiting outside for security in 100-degree heat. About 4,000 people were in line when the entrances were closed.

Walz mentioned this during his speech, but turned it into applause by adding of Nevada, “Don’t worry, we’ll be back many times.” As part of the trip, Harris hopes to gain more support among Latino voters. In 2020, Biden narrowly beat Republican Trump in Nevada by 2.4 percentage points.

Trump, the former president, had tried to gain more support in a state that relies on the service industry by promising to make tips tax-free. But the Culinary Workers Union, which represents 60,000 workers in the industry, announced its support for Harris on Friday night. About 54 percent of the union’s members are Latino, 55 percent are women and 60 percent are immigrants.

The road to victory leads through Nevada, the union said in a statement, and the Culinary Union will provide Nevada for President Kamala Harris and Vice President Tim Walz.

Adelante PAC, the political arm of the country’s oldest Latino civil rights group, the League of United Latin American Citizens, also endorsed Harris. It was a first for the 95-year-old LULAC, which in the past has been wary of officially endorsing political candidates.

AP VoteCast found in 2020 that 14 percent of Nevada voters were Hispanic, with Biden receiving 54 percent of their votes. His lead among Hispanic voters was slightly better nationwide, a sign that Democrats cannot take this voting bloc for granted. “There is an incredible energy here among college students and community members who are coming together to support and listen to our next president, Kamala Harris,” said Imer Cespedes-Alvarado, 21. “I’m not sure what to do with the people who are voting.”

Cespedes-Alvarado is studying political science at UNLV and is a first-generation American citizen who spent his childhood in Costa Rica before making the difficult decision to return to the United States alone at age 16 to pursue better opportunities.

Harris hopes to drive a wedge between Republicans on issues such as abortion access and overhauling the U.S. immigration system. Her message is that Trump this year scuttled a bipartisan deal to improve security at the southern border and address immigration problems. Democrats say he did so to improve his own political chances.

Because Harris’s mandate in the Biden administration included addressing the root causes of migration and because of some of her statements before the 2020 election, Republicans tried to portray her as weak on the southern border and enabling illegal immigration. Trump said of Harris: “As border czar, she was the worst border czar in history, in the history of the world.”

He has proposed mass deportations if he returns to the White House, but AP VoteCast found in 2020 that nearly seven in 10 Nevada voters said immigrants living in the U.S. illegally should be given the opportunity to apply for legal status.

Krista Hall, 60, and her husband, Thaddeus Hager, 58, attended Harris’ rally in Las Vegas and said they hadn’t been this excited about an election since President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.

That was just as electrifying, if not more so, Hall said, noting that they attended several Obama rallies at the time. Hager said he was confident Harris and Walz would win in a landslide.