by louis nelson 10/07/16 02:23 pm edt buttering up voters in the swing state of nevada, democratic vice presidential candidate tim kaine poked fun at donald trump for his insistence on pronouncing the state<u+2019>s name wrong. the virginia senator spent the early part of his remarks friday afternoon outside of las vegas talking up nevada<u+2019>s outsize influence in both the primary and general elections. but he delved quickly into a riff on trump<u+2019>s statement wednesday night during his own visit to the state, when he told the crowd that <u+201c>nobody says it the other way. it has to be neh-vahh-da.<u+201d> story continued below <u+201c>when you get to the very end of the race, a handful of states end up being the states where the race really gets decided, where it<u+2019>s close right up to election day,<u+201d> kaine said. <u+201c>and on any list of that handful of states, again and again and again, nevada, not neh-vah-da, nevada is one of those handfuls of states.<u+201d> the state<u+2019>s pronunciation is often a sticky subject for nevadans. the preferred pronunciation for the state is neh-vad-uh, but trump insisted wednesday that <u+201c>i said when i came out here, i said nobody says it the other way. it has to be neh-vahh-da. right? if you don't say it correctly, and it didn't happen to me, but it happened to a friend of mine, he was killed.<u+201d> kaine said trump<u+2019>s mispronunciation was a rookie mistake. <u+201c>the thing that interested me about all of that is, hey look, i<u+2019>ve been in politics for a while and i<u+2019>ve misspoken and sometimes mispronounced something. okay, that happens,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>now, i did learn when i first came to nevada as chairman of the democratic party, the first thing everybody told me is <u+2018>it<u+2019>s neh-vad-ah.<u+2019> you know? they tell you if you<u+2019>re from out of state, <u+2018>rule one, don<u+2019>t get that wrong.<u+2019> so it<u+2019>s a little hard to make that mistake, but gosh only donald trump would make that mistake and then when he<u+2019>s corrected he would, <u+2018>no, you guys have to change the way you<u+2019>re pronouncing it. my way is a better way of pronouncing it.<u+2019><u+201d> by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
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