In Nevada, the effort is targeting Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo as he seeks re-election in what is expected to be a highly competitive race in the battleground state, which Trump carried in 2024.

Republican congressional hopefuls are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own money into beating Democrats who have won year after year.

The analysis revealed that although the Democratic candidate’s share of the vote decreased throughout the Las Vegas Valley, so did the GOP share (albeit by smaller margins), particularly in suburban areas.

State congressional maps often produce House delegations that are much more lopsided in favor of one party than the state’s partisan demographics might suggest.

We are pleased to again publish this advance excerpt from this year’s Almanac of American Politics on the state of Nevada and Gov. Joe Lombardo.

Rosen took to the Senate floor to ask the upper chamber to pass the bill — originally authored by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) — on its own using a procedural tool called unanimous consent that requires all 100 senators to agree.

Democrats will pick their next presidential nominee in 2028, but before that happens, the party will have to decide which state gets to go first on the nominating calendar.

The Nevada Democratic Party faces a crossroads: To revitalize its political movement, it must move beyond blind party loyalty and embrace the dynamic energy of competitive primaries that reflect the evolving needs and aspirations of its constituents.

The change marks an important symbolic victory for the Nevada GOP, less than three months after winning a presidential election in the Silver State for the first time since 2004.

A viral Reddit post accusing Republicans of switching votes in Nevada from Kamala Harris to Donald Trump has been viewed thousands of times, but it fails to account for other factors that easily explain certain highlighted disparities in voting data.

Democrats largely benefitted from the new boundaries — particularly in swing Assembly districts and Congressional District 3 — but the new districts hurt them in the races that cost them a chance of a supermajority.

Recently, a Republican candidate winning statewide in Nevada was tough, and winning as a presidential candidate was almost impossible. The difference in 2024 is that President-elect Donald Trump built a coalition that had been as elusive as a hole in one.

The freshman senator attributes her success to localizing the Senate race, emphasizing her Nevada roots and commitment to bipartisanship and painting Brown as too extreme for the state. This allowed her to win even in a national environment that favored Republicans and keep enough registered nonpartisan and soft Republican Trump voters from picking Brown as well.

The Clark County Commission unanimously approved the results, while Washoe County Commissioner Jeanne Herman, a Republican, was the only vote against certification amid complaints from residents alleging widespread fraud.

A second Trump administration means a lot of things to different people. With his push for drilling and opposition to clean energy, environmentalists have cause for concern.

Project 2025, the blueprint for a hard-right turn in American politics, calls for getting the federal government out of the student loan business and doing away with repayment plans that pre-date the Biden administration.

According to his supporters, “We already know what kind of president he will be because he already served.” Surely he won’t do anything differently this time around than he did last time around. Certainly his allies won’t. Certainly.

Nonetheless, even while discounting the howls of online trolls and purveyors of election fraud myths, there’s something inherently wrong about an election process that takes days on end to announce official results.

A dozen Nevada political strategists, experts and elected officials agreed that the fundamentals of the race — inflation, Trump’s appeal with working-class voters and Biden’s unpopularity — favored Republicans. 

Based on the assumption that Harris won 95 percent of registered Democratic votes and 5 percent of votes from registered Republicans in Clark and Washoe counties, she likely only received about 53 percent of the nonpartisan vote, The Indy found.