2026Election Stories

With the attention of the presidential election shining on Nevada and specifically on Black voters, Horsford sees 2024 as an opportunity to promote his party's record to voters and start laying out what he calls a Day One agenda for a second Biden administration

First Lady Jill Biden will visit Las Vegas on Saturday as part of a weekend-long tour to engage women voters in swing states, sources confirmed to The Nevada Independent.

The front-runner for the GOP nomination for Nevada's Senate seat said he would not support a national abortion ban. In response, Democrats continued to label him as an anti-abortion extremist.

Voter ID as a concept has been unsuccessfully proposed numerous times in Nevada, despite polls showing significant support for it

Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said a centralized voter system going live in a few weeks should prevent future errors.

Rosen's donor base lives in all 50 states and frequently donated to other Democratic senators in swing states. Brown's base is less robust, but experts expected to increase if he becomes the GOP nominee.

During an NBC interview, Sam Brown said states should be allowed to set their own rules around abortion access, and he will not support a national abortion ban.

Reproductive Freedom for All formally endorsed Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) on Tuesday and named Nevada as one of its four battleground target states.

Officials said they fixed coding errors that created problems with the state's online voting records, primary election results not affected.

Ethics cases can cover a wide range of campaign activities: from police and fire chiefs using their uniforms to campaign and endorse other candidates, using public employees' staff time toward a re-election bid or using a county law enforcement notification app for political promotions.

During the Esmeralda County Board of Commissioners's Feb. 5  meeting, Mary Jane Zakas presented a letter from the Esmeralda County Republican Central Committee requesting to recall Elgin. Commissioners also discussed possible budget cuts to the elections department.

The organization backing the petitions, Fair Maps Nevada, began pushing the proposed ballot measures late last year — the third attempt by the group to put an independent redistricting commission before voters in as many election cycles.

On the Democratic side, primary turnout reached nearly 135,000, beating the 2008 caucus record of 118,000. On the Republican side, primary turnout surpassed 80,000, topping the 2016 caucus record of 75,000.

It's not everything, but an analysis of fundraising since 2016 revealed more than two thirds of winners had an early fundraising lead.

The Silver State win would secure 26 delegates for Trump, his largest single delegate haul thus far, and a third electoral victory heading into a Republican primary in South Carolina later this month that could seal the 2024 Republican nomination for the former president. 

Thursday's vote comes after months of confusion over the decision by state Republican Party leaders to hold the caucus in tandem with a nonbinding state-run primary required by state law.

Two days after Nikki Haley's campaign was outvoted 2-1 in Nevada's non-binding presidential primary in favor of no one, Nevada Republicans will gather tonight to declare former President Donald Trump a unanimous winner in the state's party-run caucus. 

The political dynamics now offer Democrats the opportunity to message their willingness to fund border agencies and curb the asylum system while painting Republicans — who have long made securing the border a campaign issue — as the obstacle to doing so.

Haley ignored Nevada this election cycle, making no official visits, and instead focused on other early nominating contests. In the Iowa caucuses, she placed third behind Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and she placed second in New Hampshire (DeSantis dropped out after Iowa).

The win is the president's second in just three days. Biden won South Carolina's primary on Saturday with more than 96 percent of the vote, as well as a potentially unofficial contest in New Hampshire late last month as a write-in candidate with nearly 64 percent of the vote.