A surge in early voting enthusiasm has Democrats hopeful they will take control of the House for the first time in eight years, while President Donald Trump’s hard-line blitz on immigration has Republicans confident they will keep their Senate majority.
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Sen. Dean Heller has a slight lead in his re-election bid against Jacky Rosen, but likely Nevada voters are motivated to cast a ballot against President Donald Trump, giving Democrats opportunity to take the GOP seat, according to a new poll out Wednesday.
Nevada Democrats seized Tuesday on President Donald Trump’s wobble on Yucca Mountain, urging him to follow through with his campaign-season equivocation and keep the nuclear repository in Nevada in a mothballed state.
As the first-year anniversary of the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting nears, Rep. Jacky Rosen spoke on the House floor to honor the victims and recognize heroes, noting that “even in our darkest hour, we came together united.”
Victims, survivors and heroes of the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas were recognized during a Senate floor speech by Republican Dean Heller, who said Wednesday the community “is still grieving and will never be the same.”
Legislation that would create a grant program under the Labor Department to promote a cybersecurity workforce — patterned after the Nevada cybersecurity apprenticeship program — was introduced Thursday in the House.
A pivotal Senate race in Nevada that Republicans and Democrats covet for control of the upper chamber of Congress has become ground zero in the Yucca Mountain debate.
With early returns in, Republican Sen. Dean Heller and Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen appeared to be headed to win their respective Nevada primaries Tuesday, setting up what is expected to be one of the most closely watched Senate races in the nation.
The chief architect of the Democrats’ effort to boost their clout in the Senate said the party has opportunities to pick up seats in Nevada and Arizona, but conceded a “tough political map” has them defending seats in many other states.
In a complaint filed with the Federal Elections Commission, Nevada’s Democratic Party accuses Republican Dean Heller of failing to refund illegal 2012 contributions from employees of the Cancer Treatment Centers of America.