2026Election Stories

Political newcomer Sam Brown has made Nevada's U.S. Senate Republican primary a two-person race, but former Attorney General Adam Laxalt remains the odds-on favorite to win the June 14 contest, according to a new Nevada Independent/OH Predictive Insights poll.

That lead places Lombardo as the "clear favorite" in the primary race, said Mike Noble, chief of research and managing partner of OH Predictive Insights.

Much of the criticism lobbed against Lombardo has come from Democrats who maintain that he is disregarding state law and abusing his privileges as a current officeholder.

The break between the two major police coalitions has sparked attacks from Republicans hoping to unseat Democratic incumbents.

It's part of a national trend by Democratic groups to meddle in Republican primaries ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, aiming to knock presumed frontrunners down a peg.

Cannizzaro echoed that opposition, saying in a statement that "locking this change into the state constitution is risky and would make it nearly impossible to fix if things go wrong."

Vilela said her opponent could have fought for "bold, progressive policies that would make a real change in working class lives" but has not done so during her nearly decade holding the seat.

Nevada televisions have been bombarded for weeks with messaging echoes from a decade ago — pointing to surging encounters at the southern border, juxtaposing images of tattooed gang members alongside rival politicians amid a rise in both violent crime and migrants at the southern border.

With the new District 1 boundaries and demographics, Republican candidates are sensing the opportunity to flip the seat held by Titus.

Candidates filed for office in March, and the primary election will whittle down that field before the general election in November.

In their first debate of the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, former Attorney General Adam Laxalt and newcomer Sam Brown collided over personal histories and "election integrity."

While individual candidates are subject to a $10,000 contribution limit per cycle ($5,000 each for the primary and general), political action committees in Nevada are allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts.

Despite a long political career in the Silver State — including eight years in the U.S. Senate — Heller remains in the thick of the pack of the 15-person Republican primary for governor.

Co-moderated by journalist Sam Shad and Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Victor Joecks on the program Nevada Newsmakers, the debate comes with just over three weeks remaining before early voting begins.

The Nevada Democratic Party will apply for approval of that move as the Democratic National Committee (DNC) panel works on revising the Democrats' presidential primary calendar.

Though none of the Republican candidates in District 3 have held office in the Silver State, Becker has emerged as a front runner in the race, bringing in the most money and earning the backing of the Republican establishment.

The Republican National Committee opened an Asian Pacific American Community Center on Wednesday in Las Vegas that it envisions as a resource to reach voters and a hub for members to bring up community concerns.

Even with more than half of their members not returning to the Legislature, Assembly Republicans are feeling confident heading toward the 2023 session that they can capture more seats.

The lawsuits echo claims made by former President Donald Trump, who in the days following the 2020 election erroneously said that his campaign observers were denied access to ballot-counting rooms.

Though Democrats are expected to maintain control of both houses, Republicans are hoping to prevent a two-thirds supermajority (14 seats) that could have implications for tax increases.