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

Friday and Saturday mark the start of IndyFest, The Nevada Independent’s fourth annual two-day conference focused on policy and politics.

After working in the White House after the election, President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign named Alana Mounce as its 2024 ballot access director, tasking her with ensuring the president is on the ballot in all 57 states and territories.

Nevada, of course, mattered to both campaigns this election cycle. It’s why the Trump campaign focused on building out its Nevada operation long before there was even a Democratic presidential nominee. It’s why Joe Biden’s campaign doubled down on its voter outreach this summer when it felt like the contest was narrowing.

Nevada has increasingly been thought of as a blue state, and even Washoe County has swung bluer than it has in a long time in recent years. But Republicans and Democrats alike are taking Washoe County seriously this year.

With roughly 19 weeks before the general election, the campaign for former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden named three top-level staffers in Nevada on Thursday, expanding the campaign’s state-level operation as it looks to ramp up general election efforts in a handful of key battleground states.

After Iowa Democrats declined to correct obvious math errors on caucus reporting sheets, Nevada Democrats are signaling that they will take a more even-handed approach to their post-caucus review, including correcting any miscalculations and adjusting delegates accordingly.

Inside the Nevada State Democratic Party’s ballot hubs, a massive data processing operation is working overtime to ensure that the presidential preferences of 75,000 caucusgoers who chose to vote early make it to the right precincts to be counted on Caucus Day.

A party official said Nevada Democrats consulted with Google on how they plan to use the company’s technology to carry out the caucus process and have been assured by them that it is a “secure process” and that the company is “comfortable” with it. The official added that Google did not specifically develop anything new for the caucus calculator and that it is “off the shelf technology.”

Nevada Democrats will replace their app-based early voting process for the caucus with a scannable paper ballot, the first concrete details to emerge about the new process the party is designing in the wake of Iowa’s problem-plagued contest last week.

Only about 27 percent of Democrats showed up to caucus in Nevada in 2008 and even fewer showed up in 2016. As Democrats prepare to hold what they say will be the most transparent, expansive and accessible caucus ever, newly obtained data shed light on who, historically, the state's caucusgoers have been.