Election 2024
Nevada’s exodus of election officials took with them 104 years of experience, says report
Ten of Nevada’s 17 counties have lost their top election official since the last presidential election, a higher turnover rate than in almost all other western states, according to a new report out Tuesday. Among the 11 western states analyzed by the cross-partisan political reform group Issue One, only Arizona — a fellow battleground state […]
Trump absent but still dominates as GOP presidential rivals clash at first debate
Eight Republican presidential candidates gathered onstage Wednesday night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for a heated first primary debate heavily influenced by former President Donald Trump, though the party’s front runner refused to attend the two-hour event. Trump instead recorded a competing 46-minute interview with former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson that aired on X, formerly known […]
The Nevada question they should have asked at the debate
Republicans who say they are running for president debated Wednesday night. Key takeaway: Vivek Ramaswamy is infomercial-ready. And poor Ron DeSantis. The other kids hardly even bothered to make fun of him, deciding instead to let him toddle into the footnotes of presidential campaign history under his own power. Dear Leader Trump wasn’t there of […]
As ranked choice voting gains momentum, parties in power push back
Over the past decade, ranked choice voting has become increasingly popular. From conservative Utah to liberal New York City, 13 million American voters in 51 jurisdictions — including all of Alaska and Maine — now use the system, under which voters rank candidates based on preference, leading to an instant runoff in a crowded race. This year, […]
Republicans line up to deprive Lee of a 4th term
Next year Nevada Democratic U.S. Rep. Susie Lee will try to do something no Nevadan has ever done: Win the state’s 3rd Congressional District for a fourth time. Republican Jon Porter, the first person to win election to the seat in 2002 after the district was created following the 2000 Census, was reelected twice, but […]
Could Nevada’s Republican presidential primary be – gasp! – meaningful?
This week the Nevada State Republican Party, Fake Elector Michael McDonald, proprietor, announced it has set a Feb. 8 date for its presidential preference caucus. Under Nevada law, the state must hold a Republican presidential preference primary two days earlier, on Feb. 6 – provided two or more candidates file with the secretary of state’s […]
In NV of all places, elected officials should stop tolerating Trump’s attack on democracy
The fourth and final count in the indictment of Donald Trump for plotting to overturn the 2020 election asserts Trump: “did knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with co-conspirators, known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate one or more persons in the free exercise and enjoyment of a right […]
Trump a rallying cry, minefield for 2024 Senate, House candidates in Nevada
As the field for Nevada’s GOP Senate primary grows, candidates are again being forced to reckon with Donald Trump as a campaign issue, with some candidates leaning into their support of the thrice indicted former president and others attempting to keep their distance without angering their party’s primary voters. Across the aisle, Democratic groups are […]