2026Election Stories

In a freewheeling speech, Trump delivered his usual rhetoric against illegal immigration and once again predicted that a victory for Kamala Harris would mark the undoing of America.

In separate long-ranging interviews with The Nevada Independent, the candidates addressed questions across 14 different policy areas.

Vice President Kamala Harris now holds a 23 percentage point lead over former President Donald Trump among registered Hispanic voters in Nevada.

Donald Trump's campaign and other GOP groups have filed a lawsuit alleging that Nevada fails to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls — Republicans' fourth lawsuit challenging the state's electoral procedures this year. 

Bipartisan majorities of Nevadans support raising taxes and/or cutting benefits to maintain the solvency of Social Security — defying conventional wisdom that changes to the popular retirement program are politically unthinkable.

Walz spoke to about 50 donors about the stakes of the election and the different outreach efforts and visions of both presidential campaigns. He then visited the TIABI Coffee & Waffle shop.

Officials say the long-overdue project will speed up the release of election results and eliminate opportunities for errors.

The Minnesota governor's trip was initially planned as one of his first stops on a tour of battleground states.

Barajas said he's speaking out about his support for Trump now because of rising inflation and economic conditions

Nevadans will vote on a ballot question to enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution, though the measure would not affect access to abortion care in the Silver State.

In a 5-2 ruling released Friday, the high court's majority said the minor party's petition contained the wrong affidavit language, invalidating the signatures gathered to land on the ballot. 

Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo is chairing a group called the Nevada Voter ID Coalition, and progressive group Battle Born Progress launched a PAC opposing the initiative.

More than 50 percent of Nevada Latinos voted during the 2020 election, the second highest rate among swing states.

Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown, who has declined to say publicly how he would vote on an abortion ballot question, said last week that he was not in favor of changing the law.

As a ballot measure to enshrine abortion rights in the Nevada Constitution goes before voters in November, a new poll shows Silver State residents oppose criminalizing the procedure.

In interviews, more than a dozen industry players, lawmakers and environmental advocates touted the law's transformational potential and existing impact in Nevada. But the bureaucratic and corporate timelines of the IRA's funding provisions move much slower than the election cycle. 

Nevada voters will have the opportunity this November to vote on whether to exempt diapers from the state's sales tax.

Nearly two-thirds of Nevada voters support continuing military assistance to Ukraine — a key political issue that has divided the Republican Party and will be a major international issue for the next president.

The agreement outlines that Kennedy and his running mate had filed a petition to gain ballot access, that they will now no longer appear on the ballot and that the Democrats' lawsuit is dismissed.

The Trump campaign now has five Nevada offices open and is relying on its "Trump Force 47" program to recruit volunteers, but it still significantly lags behind the ground game of the Harris campaign/