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.

Like several of her Senate Democratic colleagues running in tight races, Rosen was able to win re-election despite former President Donald Trump winning the state at the top of the ticket. With her win, Democrats have retained a critical swing-state seat. By flipping seats in West Virginia, Ohio and Montana, Republicans have now taken control of the upper chamber. Races in Arizona and Pennsylvania, two seats held by Democrats, have yet to be called.

Former President Donald Trump has won Nevada’s six electoral votes, becoming the first Republican to win the state in two decades and riding a wave of discontent over the economy and an embrace of voting methods that Nevada Republicans have previously eschewed.

Trump or Harris? How do nonpartisans break? The Nevada Independent breaks down the most compelling storylines we’re following on decision day.

During speeches in North Las Vegas and Reno, Harris rehashed a slew of her policies aimed at lowering health care, housing and grocery costs, and characterized her candidacy as a fight for freedom and dignity.

The Indy analyzed the various scenarios in which Nevadans will decide the next president, as well as control of the U.S. Senate.

Like the Sisolak-Lombardo debate two years before it, that debate illustrates that marked disagreement and civility do not have to be an either-or proposition. And, facts matter. We, the people, deserve something far better than what we have been getting.

But some people who took an oath to defend the Constitution do care. They are among the 750 military veterans and noncommissioned officers of the National Security Leaders for America who are speaking out about the dangers of a second Trump presidency.