Organizers say youth enthusiasm they see on the ground over the 2020 election defies the story data might tell — that young people historically have participated at the lowest rate of any age group. But they’re doing all they can to translate interest into action ahead of Election Day.

Although Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders emerged as the definitive frontrunner after Nevada’s first-in-the-West caucus, he’s not leading with black voters — a pattern that showed in Nevada and could have implications in the coming South Carolina primary and beyond. 39 percent of black voters who caucused opted for former Vice President Joe Biden compared to 27 percent for Sanders, according to early entrance polls of the Nevada Caucus.

Well, we made it! I was trying to do the math and I think, conservatively, I’ve been working somewhere in the ballpark of 96 hours a week since the beginning of the month, written some 40-plus stories and done some two dozen TV and radio hits. I am incredibly sleep-deprived and so ready for the world’s longest nap, but it’s been a rewarding experience and I’m grateful to all the Indy’s loyal readers for following along — and to my colleagues for helping me out on the 2020 beat this last week.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders notched a decisive victory in Nevada’s presidential caucus on Saturday, cementing his frontrunner status and paving a clear road heading into South Carolina’s primary next week and Super Tuesday soon after.

Months of organizing and television ads, a frantic two-week rush after New Hampshire, and Nevada Democrats are finally heading to caucus on Saturday morning to determine allocation of the state’s 36 unpledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Although the delegate haul is small, almost all of the party’s presidential hopefuls have made a concentrated effort to perform well in the caucus to continue or regain their campaign’s momentum.

Somehow, the likeliest thing heading into Nevada’s first-in-the-West nominating contest on Saturday is that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will win, likelier even than the chance the Democratic Party voting goes off without a hitch in the wake of Iowa’s problem plagued-contest earlier this month.

After a frantic two-week rush, Democratic presidential hopefuls fanned out across Nevada to hold events and campaign rallies in a final push before the state’s presidential caucus on Saturday.

In a sometimes-chaotic scene this morning, five of the seven leading Democratic presidential candidates joined a picket line of hundreds of members from a handful of Las Vegas casino worker unions hours before tonight’s Democratic presidential debate.

In an election cycle dominated by diverse issues — health care, education, immigration and the economy — about 1,000 domestic workers, including 30 from Nevada, got the full attention of three Democratic presidential candidates Tuesday morning.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, speaking to a crowd of several hundred at the College of Southern Nevada’s Henderson campus Monday afternoon, began with a disclaimer.

Four more presidential campaign ads are hitting Nevada televisions today, including two from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, one from the surging former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg and another from Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, at a Black History Month brunch hosted by Nevada’s Black Legislative Caucus on Sunday, made his best pitch for how he would help black America as president.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, sandwiched between two teleprompters in the auditorium of a retirement community in Henderson Friday evening, began the way he has begun so many of his pitches to Nevadans over the last several months.

Democratic presidential hopeful Tom Steyer may be taking aim at Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in a new digital ad, but it is former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg whom he hopes to position himself as an alternative to beginning in Nevada and South Carolina.

California billionaire Tom Steyer is taking direct aim at Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in a new digital ad launched today, attacking the senator on the price and popularity of his Medicare-for-all plan just one day before early voting is set to begin in Nevada’s Democratic presidential caucus.

For the first time in the 2020 cycle, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is leading the pack of Democratic presidential hopefuls in Nevada, according to a poll from the Las Vegas Review-Journal and AARP Nevada.

That’s why for the next week, The Nevada Independent will publish a daily list of all scheduled presidential candidate events. A full list of all future scheduled events will remain on the presidential candidate tracker.

Steyer failed to break into the top five in each of the first two states to weigh in on the race, but has pinned his hopes on Nevada, investing heavily in the Silver State and skipping out on Primary Day in New Hampshire to start a bus tour across Nevada.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders would “end Culinary Healthcare” if elected president, according to a new one-pager the politically powerful Culinary Union is posting back of house on the Las Vegas Strip.

On the eve of Tuesday’s primary, many New Hampshirites were still unsure who they were going to vote for.