Orientation started last Wednesday for Alexis Hansen and 12 other freshman Assembly and Senate members, barely a week after their victories.
Colton Lochhead
Former Reporter
Election officials say there have been no credible reports of voter fraud in Nevada’s midterm elections, despite such claims from the head of the state Republican Party.
With the election in the rearview mirror, Attorney General-elect Aaron Ford is turning his sights toward bolstering funding for mental health programs and potentially undoing some of the work of his predecessor.
The blue wave that crashed over Nevada last week did more than just flip party control of the Republican-held governorship and a U.S. Senate seat.
Officials have started the search to fill a vacancy created when voters elected deceased brothel owner Dennis Hof to the Assembly District 36 seat.
Twenty-eight votes are all that kept Democrats from seizing a supermajority in the Nevada Legislature — and the ability to pass tax increases without any Republican support.
Around 2:40 a.m. Wednesday, challenger Wes Duncan conceded and tweeted congratulations to Aaron Ford for his “hard fought win. The @NevadaAG is a wonderful office with wonderful people – lead them well!”
In what was one of the tightest gubernatorial races in recent Nevada memory, Democratic County Commissioner Steve Sisolak upended a rising Republican star to become the Silver State’s first Democratic governor in two decades.
The U.S. Department of Justice is sending federal employees to watch Nevada elections on Tuesday to “monitor compliance with the federal voting rights laws.”
With just days before Election Day, a pair of robocalls featuring President Donald Trump will be going out to voters in Nevada and other key states in an effort to bolster the chances of Republicans locked in tight contests.
Of the top 10 donors to state elections and initiatives, five groups with ties to billionaires have combined to donate more than $116 million during this election cycle.
More than 550,000 of those have come from in person early-voting, according to numbers from the Nevada secretary of state’s office, far surpassing the turnout of past midterm election years like 2014 (267,000) and 2010 (379,707).
Trump and Heller worked together during the push for tax reform last year, specifically on doubling the Child Tax Credit from $1,000 to $2,000 per child.
Much has been said by both sides about the importance of the race for Nevada’s next governor, but further down the ballot another has been brewing — and it could decide what laws and policies the state passes come 2019.
From top Washington lawmakers to celebrities from Las Vegas, a parade of famous figures continue to stream through Nevada to push for their candidates.