Former Reps. Joe Heck and Jon Porter were confident in the state's election system but raised concerns about how recent election administration changes could upend public trust.

Though many of the recent high-profile losses by GOP candidates in Nevada have come at a time when the party has been defined by Trump, candidates who rejected Trump have suffered with the GOP base.

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

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

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.

Reid, who had been out of office for nearly six years before his death, was able to make those political donations through a loophole in federal campaign finance law that allows retired elected officials to continue to use their campaign accounts for years after they leave office.

Experts warn that district drawing is not destiny, and while Republicans will now face more of an uphill battle under the new maps, it doesn’t necessarily mean that Nevada will lose swing state status.

Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) continued to refill her campaign coffers through the third quarter after raising more than $660,000, boosting her cash on hand to more than $1.44 million, according to a Friday announcement from her campaign. 

The Nevada Independent sat down with White last week before her departure over Zoom to talk about the last three years, including her highs and her lows, and what is next for her after leaving the governor’s office.

Congressional representatives across the state reported race-leading fundraising hauls this week, positioning each with an early money advantage more than a year in advance of next summer’s primary elections.

Nevada will again be front and center in the national political conversation, with Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s Senate seat expected to be one of the top targets for Republicans — Nevada is one of three Democrat-held seats in potentially competitive states (others including New Hampshire and Arizona) up for grabs in 2022.

For more than a decade, District 3 almost always elected a Republican to Congress. But after two cycles of Democratic victories, have the suburbs so central to District 3’s created a new Democratic edge in what was once the state’s most competitive swing district?

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 no statewide elections at the top of Nevada's 2020 ballot, the frequently bitter and increasingly expensive push to win the state’s swingy 3rd Congressional District has come to consume and define the tug-of-war between Democrats and Republicans to wrest control of the state’s most competitive seats.

The most devastating economic downturn since the Great Depression has done little to slow Nevada’s political fundraising machine as Democratic incumbents Susie Lee and Steven Horsford each reported record-setting numbers for the second quarter of 2020, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday.

Rep. Dina Titus announced on Monday that she is backing former Vice President Joe Biden in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, the first major endorsement by a prominent elected official in Nevada in the race.

In the years since Reid left the U.S. Senate, his campaign account and leadership political action committee — Friends For Harry Reid and Searchlight Leadership Fund — have regularly continued to file disclosure reports that show a steady stream of campaign expenses, charitable donations and political contributions.

Those meetings and others held between Sisolak with high-powered lobbyists, legislators with major pending bills, federal government officials and a slew of well-known business leaders were revealed in a public records request submitted by The Nevada Independent for the governor’s calendar through the legislative session.