Dozens of first-time volunteers showed up at campaign events. Voters who had previously been unengaged answered texts from the campaign for the first time. Infrequent volunteers committed to more phone banking and canvassing shifts. And in East Las Vegas — where the campaign's office focused on Latino voters, a group the president had struggled to connect with — 12 voters walked in and volunteered on the spot.

The union's attempt to unseat an incumbent legislator over a room cleaning mandate failed. But lasting disunity could have repercussions for Democrats.

Without a caucus to run — which requires significant money and time — and with an uncompetitive primary, Biden's staff can focus exclusively on building out a volunteer operation and testing their messaging early into the cycle.

Vice President Kamala Harris will come to East Las Vegas on Jan. 27 for the first day of early voting for the state's presidential primary, marking the Biden-Harris campaign's first major campaign event in the battleground state in 2024.

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.

In the time of coronavirus, a significant chunk of Democratic playbook has been torn out and tossed out the window, with campaigns, the party and outside organizations nixing door-knocking from their get-out-the-vote plans in favor of phone banking, text message campaigns and literature drops. Democrats' absence from the field has been filled by Republicans, who halted in-person campaigning at the beginning of the pandemic but resumed door-knocking and in-person events in June.

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.

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.

For the last year, the state Democratic Party has been developing technology to facilitate its first-in-the-West caucus, which will, in another first, include an early voting option.