The Biden campaign held two events with Black community members in Southern Nevada last month. It hopes to focus on the president's achievements and character, as polls show dwindling enthusiasm.

Incumbents made strong showings in lively races for Reno City Council and Sparks City Council, while two big-name Democratic candidates separated themselves from the pack in Clark County Commission primaries. Here are some highlights.

On Caucus Day, precinct chairs opened the covers on the party-purchased iPads they had been assigned to reveal a browser-based Google Form tool, which they used to step-by-step report the results from in-person attendees and reveal the results from early voters. Precinct chairs who had been fretting for days about whether it was all going to work were pleasantly surprised.

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The Assembly Democratic Caucus is announcing seven endorsements on Friday, ahead of a major legislative reshuffling in 2020 as lawmakers hit their term limits or seek higher office.

Fourteen Democratic presidential hopefuls flocked to Las Vegas on Sunday with the goal of wooing Nevadans. But the Sunday night gathering at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino wasn’t an extended courtship. It was a speed-dating session.

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Former Democratic Secretary of State Ross Miller, who lost a high-profile bid for attorney general in 2014, is making a political comeback in a campaign for Clark County Commission. He will go up against at least three contenders for District C seat.

About a dozen seats in the Legislature will have no incumbent in the race in the 2020 election, setting the stage for some fierce competition when candidates formally file to run in March, according to an analysis from The Nevada Independent.

Democratic Sen. Mo Denis said he will file in March to run for termed-out Lawrence Weekly’s Clark County Commission seat, setting up a face-off with his Democratic colleague, Assemblyman William McCurdy II, who announced this summer that he would also be running.

Popular early voting sites and other locations aimed at reaching a broad cross section of voters — including members of the politically powerful Culinary Union — number among the nearly 80 places where Nevada Democrats will be able to vote early for their preferred presidential candidate in the February caucus.

The top 10 Democratic presidential contenders are preparing to return to Las Vegas on Wednesday for a presidential gun safety forum sponsored by the advocacy groups Giffords and March for Our Lives and hosted by MSNBC.

The Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee voted Friday to officially axe a proposal that would have allowed Democrats in Nevada to caucus by telephone.

A Nevada Independent analysis of the 51 bills that allocate state dollars beyond the budget proposed by Sisolak show a substantial amount of appropriations — nearly $160 million in the 2019-2020 fiscal year and $52 million in 2020-2021 — going to a wide variety of legislative projects, from funds for school gardens and pre-kindergarten education to construction of a new courthouse in rural White Pine County and a railroad museum in Boulder City.