Democrat dominance in Tuesday’s elections revealed a stark contrast in the legacies left by two influential Nevada politicians — Gov. Brian Sandoval and Harry Reid.
Victor Joecks
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Third-parties are so counterproductive that the top priority for Republican donors should be funding a Green Party in Nevada. Green Party candidates would likely draw at least 2 percent from Democrat candidates. That’s a winning margin in close races, and the impacts can be felt all the way down the ballot.
If you want to make Election Day less stressful, make government less important.
This election has high policy stakes for Republicans, but are they high enough to motivate Republican voters? That’s the question Tuesday’s election will turn on.
President Donald Trump summoned two unusual allies in his call to limit birthright citizenship: Harry Reid and Barack Obama. On Tuesday, Axios reported that Trump wants to use an executive order to stop giving birthright citizenship to children born here to illegal alien mothers.
Question 6 would cost Nevada families an average of $2,000 per year, according to James Taylor, the Heartland Institute’s senior fellow for energy policy.
The scariest thing you’ll see this Halloween won’t be someone in a costume. It’s the outrage mob on the prowl looking for children who dare to dress up as someone who doesn’t share their skin tone.
Sen. Aaron Ford was for releasing police body camera footage before he was recorded talking with officers after his son’s arrest. Now it’s up to the Nevada Supreme Court to upload the public’s access to records.
If you don’t believe the polls, believe the early voting data. Nevada has many tight races. Here are four observations from five days of early voting.
Nevada Court of Appeals Judge Jerry Tao is running for the Nevada Supreme Court as an originalist, because “we need to be faithful to the words of the statute and the constitution.”
Obama’s untruths don’t justify Trump’s — or vice versa. But it’s best not to wrap your criticism of someone else’s dishonesty in falsehoods of your own.
Aaron Ford is so desperate to be attorney general that he’s willing to baselessly accuse his opponent of trading the lives of Nevadans for a few hundred dollars. To make it worse, Ford is using those who died on October 1 as political props.
Nevada should institute work requirements for adults who can work and encourage doctors to come and remain in Nevada, according to Republican gubernatorial candidate and attorney general Adam Laxalt.
Political violence has come to Nevada, and it’s ugly. On Wednesday, Wilfred Michael Stark, a tracker with the far-left Super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, allegedly attacked Kristin Davison, the campaign manager for Adam Laxalt.
If everything Question 6 supporters say is true, there’s no need to vote for it. Question 6 is a constitutional amendment that would require that Nevada get 50 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2030. Nevada’s current renewable portfolio standard is 25 percent by 2025. As a constitutional amendment, voters would need to approve it in 2018 and 2020.