Introverted and intense, the former sheriff is more comfortable behind the scenes. But he says ambition to make things better pushed him to the role.

When you receive your sample ballot, you might be forgiven for thinking you were accidentally delivered one from several years ago. Voters rejected these candidates at least once before, but now have to do it again.

Though many of the recent high-profile losses by GOP candidates in Nevada have come at a time when the party has been defined by Trump, candidates who rejected Trump have suffered with the GOP base.

The announcement said the transition from Chief of Staff Ben Kieckhefer, a former state senator, to Cherry will take place in early 2024, and Cherry’s first day in office will be Jan. 17. 

A new poll of likely Nevada voters commissioned by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) shows Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) narrowly leading potential Republican challenger Sam Brown ahead of her 2024 re-election bid. 

Marchant, a prominent election denier and fervent Trump supporter, has framed the race as “MAGA vs. establishment,” a reference to the institutional support for Brown, who has declined to endorse Trump.

Below are excerpts from the new chapters in the 2024 Almanac on the state of Nevada and Gov. Joe Lombardo, written by Louis Jacobson.

With nine major Republicans declared to run for president, I looked through their past statements to see what they think of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository — long a political barometer in the Silver State.

Jeffrey Ross Gunter, a health care executive and former Trump-appointed U.S. ambassador to Iceland, has launched a website hinting at a potential run for U.S. Senate in Nevada.

Though the 2024 midterms remain more than 600 days away, early Republican campaign attacks against Rosen are centering around a proposed new rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for Medicare Advantage, the capitated Medicare Part C program created in the 1990s that pays private insurers to cover seniors’ health care benefits. 

Two years after chair Judith Whitmer and a group of democratic socialists won control of party leadership that led to a messy intra-party schism, Whitmer is being challenged by a state lawmaker, Assemblywoman Daniele Monroe-Moreno.

Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) – Nevada’s sole Republican in Congress – said he plans to continue to serve in the House of Representatives.

Despite his 2020 loss, ongoing legal woes and the stain of the Jan. 6 uprising, former President Donald Trump holds a strong structural advantage a year before Nevada Republicans vote for their party’s next presidential nominee.

Its decision to remind Republican voters of that endorsement could be viewed as an effort to stymie GOP enthusiasm for Joe Lombardo.

More than two weeks after a Carson City judge ruled against former Republican gubernatorial candidate and Reno-area lawyer Joey Gilbert in his bid to undo his primary loss to Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, Gilbert has yet to file a promised appeal of the decision to the state Supreme Court as of Monday afternoon.

Kathleen Taylor, Elliot Malin and Alexander Goff are moving on as finalists to fill Reno’s vacant Ward 5 city council seat after former member Naoma Jardon resigned in the middle of her final term to take a new job.

Alaska’s election gives us a sneak preview of the voting system being proposed in the Better Voting Nevada Initiative, which is the only initiative petition eligible to reach our ballots this year.

Laxalt pushed hard on the notion that Latinos were fleeing the Democrats, and cast the GOP as a party that would “represent a set of values that attract the standard voter, not just for this year, but for a generation.”

Nine in 10 Nevadans believe abortion should be legal in some way, shape or form. The Nevada Independent breaks down the polling results and details where voters and top candidates stand.

Laxalt has repeatedly touted campaign outreach among Latino voters, looking to capitalize on what could be a continued trend of such voters peeling away from their historic associations with the Democratic Party.