
Hillary Clinton’s campaign has received a much needed shot of glamor with actresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoria speaking at her final pre-caucus rally as Clinton made a last ditch bid to secure Nevada’s Latino vote.

With just hours to go before the state becomes the ‘first in the west’ to caucus for the Democrats, and polls showing Clinton in a statistical tie with Bernie Sanders, the Latino vote has become the key demographic to win, making up 27.8 percent of the state’s population.

America Ferrera, 31, was the first to speak to the crowd of more than 600 supporters who had gathered on the grass of Clark County Government Center Amphitheater on the chill February evening.

Support: Eva Longoria and America Ferrera joined the Clintons on stage in Las Vegas as Hillary makes a final push to win Nevada

'So ready for Hillary': America and Eva both gave Clinton very strong endorsements on stage

Vote for Hillary: Eva Longoria stumps up for Clinton on Friday in Las Vegas as the Hollywood star campaigned for the Democratic contender

Success: Eva, Chelsea, Hillary and America Ferrera give broad smiles on the stage in Las Vegas on Friday

Flanked by a suitably diverse blend of loyalists spanning every demographic and invited to sit square in the line of cameras there to record the event, America asked:

‘Who’s ready for Hillary? I am so ready for Hillary.’

In comments designed to rebut criticisms that the campaign has notably failed to connect with young voters or convince others that Hillary possesses warmth and likability, America said: ‘I’m a millennial, female voter and I’m not only for Hillary but really like Hillary.

‘She’s the kind of person I want to share a bottle of wine with. I really heart Hillary…I’d like to Netflix and chill with her. Maybe because I am an American Latina who has experienced first hand the kind of inequities Hillary has spent her career trying to fix.’

She continued: ‘Hillary stood with Latinos even before the Latino vote was desirable.’

All smiles: Actresses America Ferrera (L) and Eva Longoria speak in support of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally at the Clark County Government Center in Las Vegas

Thank you: Hillary goes to embrace Eva Longoria and Bill offers a heartfelt hug to America Ferrera on the stage

Gratitude: Former president Bill Clinton gives Eva Longoria a warm embrace on stage while his wife Hillary watches on

More celebrity support: Chloe Moretz was in the audience at the rally backing Hillary for president

Famous friends: Eva Longoria, Chelsea Clinton, Hillary, America Ferrera and Bill Clinton all spoke at a campaign rally at the Clark County Government Center in Las Vegas

Earlier, in what seemed a pretty blatant attempt to court the Latino contingent, a Mariachi band had taken to the stage while Mexican Luis Coronel was the campaign’s choice to sing the national anthem before the speakers took to the stage.

Hillary’s campaign for Latino voters has been underway since staffers first arrived in the Silver State back in April when they launched a ‘listening tour.’

Both Clinton and Sanders have invested heavily in caucus training geared towards Spanish speakers including the Clinton campaign’s training dubbed, ‘Caucus Conmigo.’

But America insisted that Clinton did not view Latinos as ‘a voting block.’

‘Hillary and I could be BFFs’ she joked ‘If she would just give it a chance.’

By her side, looking polished and shimmering with the patina of celebrity, Eva Longoria, 40, waited her turn to address the crowd. And when she did, she said, she did not do so as a celebrity.

She explained: ‘A lot of people say, “I don’t care what a celebrity says.” I don’t either.’

Listening in the crowd was 19-year-old actress Chloe Grace Moretz, best known for her roles in ‘If I Stay,’ and ‘Kick-Ass’ who has been stumping for Clinton in recent days, joining the ranks of famous women including Lena Durham and Katy Perry.

Outdoors: Hillary Clinton was joined by President Bill Clinton and their Daughter Chelsea for her Democratic Rally at the Clark County Government Center in Las Vegas

But Eva insisted: ‘I’m here as an American, an American who cares deeply about the progress this country has made.

‘And I’m here as a Latina. I’m also here as a woman who cares deeply about equity. I’m here today as a sister of a special needs woman whose health problems are a daily battle she has faced since the day she was born.

‘I’m here as a small business owner. I’m here as a human who inhabits a beautiful earth.

‘We are not a single issue group.’

Yet she is undoubtedly part of a group that Clinton was desperate to win over with her last rally before Saturday’s vote.

‘I keep hearing, “I’m just not inspired by Hillary,”’ the actress continued. ‘If Hillary doesn’t inspire you you aren’t paying attention.

‘For over three decades she’s fought for us. Now it’s time to fight for her.’

And with that Chelsea, Bill and Hillary took to the stage, played on by Rachel Platten’s ‘Fight Song’ – an anthem for the campaign with the rather unfortunate lyrics ‘And I don’t really care if nobody else believes (I’ve still got a lot of fight left in me).’

After the trio posed for a group shot with America and Eva, Chelsea took the microphone to tell the whooping crowd how her mother inspired her ‘every day.’

Final push: Hillary is desperate to get her campaign off the ground after her defeat in the New Hampshire primary to Bernie Sanders

US Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens as former US President Bill Clinton addresses supporters at the 'Get Out The Caucus' rally at the Clark County Government Center in Las Vegas

Loving embrace: Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gets a kiss from her husband and former President Bill Clinton as daughter Chelsea looks on

Tense: Bill Clinton looks on as Hillary gees up the crowd in Las Vegas as she enters the pivotal moment in her campaign

She underscored her mother’s commitment to fighting climate change, to universal healthcare and early childhood education, to comprehensive immigration reform, campaign finance reform and pay inequity before introducing, ‘my dad, our 42nd president, Bill Clinton.’

For a moment the former president looked every one of his 69 years as he donned a pair of half-moon glasses to read acknowledgements from a sheaf of index cards.

Removing them he told the crowd of his wife: ‘I love doing things for her. She did things for me for a very long time.’

Confident in the knowledge that his legacy and his presence is one of her greatest assets he continued: ‘I don’t think I’m doing her any good sometimes ‘coz I wake up every morning a happy grandfather and I’m not mad at anybody…though that’s been challenged in the past few days.’

Describing his wife, as he has throughout her campaign, as ‘the best change maker I’ve ever known,’ he urged the crowd to ‘show up and bring her home tomorrow.’

The anxiety about, and significance of, that vote to the Clinton campaign was palpable in every cadence his wife went onto utter as she told her supporters, ‘It all culminates tomorrow at 11am when you and all the people you have touched and talked to come to caucus…and that will be the moment when people will be asked to stand up and to stand up for me.’



