Though the 2024 midterms remain more than 600 days away, early Republican campaign attacks against Rosen are centering around a proposed new rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for Medicare Advantage, the capitated Medicare Part C program created in the 1990s that pays private insurers to cover seniors’ health care benefits. 

In the last week, President Joe Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came to Las Vegas with dueling messages about the state of the country.

Direct contributions from outside PACs and political groups also broadly boosted Democratic candidates more than Republicans. At the top of the list, for instance, is the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the national party’s state legislative campaign arm.

DeSantis visited Las Vegas as part of the Florida Blueprint tour, which is outwardly a promotional tour for his new book, but unofficially viewed as a precursor to a presidential run.

Cortez Masto won by less than 1 percent in a state where the price of gas spiked to $5.67 per gallon. In pre-election polling, Nevada voters picked “jobs and the economy” as their top issue, dwarfing the next closest issue by a factor of more than 3-to-1.

After the 2020 cycle saw cumulative contributions from the gaming industry to Nevada lawmakers nosedive to $769,000 amid plummeting gaming revenues during the COVID-19 pandemic, the industry bounced back in 2022, dishing out more than $1.2 million to 55 legislators. 

Assemblywoman Daniele Monroe-Monroe (D-Las Vegas) was elected chair of the Nevada State Democratic Party Saturday, ousting incumbent chair Judith Whitmer.

Two years after chair Judith Whitmer and a group of democratic socialists won control of party leadership that led to a messy intra-party schism, Whitmer is being challenged by a state lawmaker, Assemblywoman Daniele Monroe-Moreno.

Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) – Nevada’s sole Republican in Congress – said he plans to continue to serve in the House of Representatives.

Standing alone at the top of the pack, the Nevada Association of Realtors, also known as Nevada REALTORS, gave more money than any other group, contributing more than $432,000 from the association and its multiple political action committees.

Despite his 2020 loss, ongoing legal woes and the stain of the Jan. 6 uprising, former President Donald Trump holds a strong structural advantage a year before Nevada Republicans vote for their party’s next presidential nominee.

With all or nearly all contributions from AFSCME and other major union groups going to legislative Democrats, the 2022 election cycle continued a longstanding trend of union support for the party.

In a statement, Monroe-Moreno said that “Nevada Democrats deserve new leadership dedicated to unity, transparency, and most importantly, electing Democrats at every level.” 

The multi-million dollar growth in fundraising for legislators came amid a competitive election cycle in Nevada with every top office up for grabs.

The Democratic National Committee officially approved the new nominating calendar its Rules & Bylaws Committee had negotiated, elevating Nevada to the second spot in presidential elections.

The amount — more than $1.4 million more than Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) had at the outset of 2021, the year before her re-election campaign — gives the incumbent Democrat a substantial headstart over potential Republican challengers. 

Lombardo received significant contributions from donors previously supportive of Sisolak, including 27 maximum contributions totaling $270,000 from companies owned and operated by MGM Resorts International.

“I just wanted to, to the extent that we can, strengthen the rule against it, the penalty for it, make sure it never happens again, basically make it even more illegal than it was before,” Daly, who represents a Sparks-area district, told The Nevada Independent.

Smith’s subpoena to Clark County officials asks for any and all communications to, from or involving Trump and his campaign between June 1, 2020, and January 20, 2021 — the day Trump left office.

With Iowa potentially on the way out, a DNC committee could elevate Nevada – or New Hampshire – to first-in-the-nation status