At the Las Vegas event, national and Nevada-based Democratic insiders said the party had lost ground in virtually every state in 2024 because it moved too far left.
I asked some of Harry Reid's former colleagues and staffers to explain how Reid the politician, an avid athlete himself, might compare to Andy Reid the coach.
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Though somewhat overshadowed by the presidential race, Rosen and Nevada's three House Democrats have continued to raise money at a similar pace to the 2022 election cycle — a record-setting midterm in Nevada for election spending.
As the third-term congressman filed to run in the New Hampshire primary on Friday, Phillips campaign advisor Steve Schmidt told Politico of Nevada's Democratic primary: "We cede that race. Doesn't matter."
Neither Bush's 2004 win nor the long string of Democratic victories that followed were inevitable. Strategists and political experts said a combination of an impressive data operation, successful voter registration strategies, get-out-the-vote efforts and a national mood that favored Bush powered Republicans' success in the 2004 campaign.
The Democratic National Committee officially approved the new nominating calendar its Rules & Bylaws Committee had negotiated, elevating Nevada to the second spot in presidential elections.
Groups affiliated with Gov. Steve Sisolak and other prominent Nevada Democrats were the financial backers of organizations that spent millions to drag down Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo and other more moderate Republicans ahead of the state's June primary.
Nevada Democratic Party Chair Judith Whitmer and three other state Democrats made the case to national party officials Wednesday that the Silver State should hold the first presidential primary.
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.
Former Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid says it's too early to discount any of the Democratic presidential hopefuls — even those considering jumping in late in the game.