Attorneys representing several of the Nevada Republican fake electors are accusing the state of withholding crucial evidence from the grand jury that indicted them over their role in falsely pledging the state’s six electoral votes to Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

It is our duty and it is imperative for us to fact-check these sub-Trumpian lackeys and try to revivify trust in the electorate that they have helped erode. Nothing could be more important for us and all journalists, everywhere. 

The trial for the six Nevada Republicans facing forgery charges over their plans to subvert the results of the 2020 election is now set for next January. The trial was originally set for next week.

Forever Trumpers once again showed their trademark unyielding loyalty to their leader. To no surprise, Trump was swiftly declared the winner and wound up with 99.1-percent of the ballots in a lopsided victory.

State prosecutors this week dismissed the defendants’ arguments that their actions could not be considered criminally fraudulent because state and federal officials were not deceived by them.

The Silver State win would secure 26 delegates for Trump, his largest single delegate haul thus far, and a third electoral victory heading into a Republican primary in South Carolina later this month that could seal the 2024 Republican nomination for the former president. 

Haley ignored Nevada this election cycle, making no official visits, and instead focused on other early nominating contests. In the Iowa caucuses, she placed third behind Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and she placed second in New Hampshire (DeSantis dropped out after Iowa).

The win is the president’s second in just three days. Biden won South Carolina’s primary on Saturday with more than 96 percent of the vote, as well as a potentially unofficial contest in New Hampshire late last month as a write-in candidate with nearly 64 percent of the vote.

Nevada’s six “fake electors” are asking a district court judge to toss out felony forgery charges brought against them by state prosecutors earlier this year over their efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

The GOP presidential primary race is down to just two people: Donald Trump and Nikki Haley. So what does that mean for Nevada, where they aren’t even on the same ballot?

Nevada lawmakers created the new primary system in 2021, but the state GOP argued in an initial filing last May that the law would prevent party leaders from opting for the state’s existing caucus model in 2024.

Lying about the last election being stolen is Donald Trump's only move. The fact the rabbit he keeps pulling out of the hat has been dead for going on four years appears to matter not at all to his followers.

Nevada’s ballot is missing the bulk of top-name candidates because the GOP wanted it that way. Who could have possibly guessed such a plan would have stirred a bit of confusion and anger among “low information” voters in the Republican ranks?

Media commentary about the pending criminal trials concerning the election has primarily been from former or present prosecutors. They do not generally focus on the costs involved in mounting a defense.

Richard Wright, who represented the six defendants in Clark County District Court at their arraignment Monday, told The Nevada Independent in a Wednesday interview that he plans to request dismissal of the case on venue grounds, saying Ford’s choice of Clark County is a “politically expedient” move, because the county — and its pool of potential jurors — lean more Democratic than the other potential trial sites. 

Before the Clark County grand jury ultimately decided to indict the six Nevada Republicans who cast false electoral votes for then-President Donald Trump in 2020, they heard witness testimony from a top Nevada elections official, a Postal Service inspector and one of campaign lawyers about how the fake elector scheme unfolded.

Despite the criminal charges, McDonald has continued to closely embrace Trump. He appeared at a Trump campaign rally in Reno on Sunday, telling the crowd to “cast your ballot for Donald J. Trump.”

Sunday’s rally marks the first Trump visit to Nevada since six Republicans were indicted by a Clark County grand jury earlier this month over a 2020 scheme from his campaign to submit “alternative” slates of electors in key swing states. 

Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford on Tuesday defended his decision to charge six Nevada Republicans with fraud-related felonies last week over the 2020 fake elector scheme, in part by announcing publicly that the investigation has been running “for years.”

Republican voters deserve far better than a sorry collection of MAGA opportunists who have tried to turn the party into an extension of the former president’s campaign operations.