Early voting has made up over half of the total vote in Nevada's elections since 2014, and current numbers suggest that Democrats could be in trouble.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, left, and Republican challenger Adam Laxalt, right, are running in a dead heat in Nevada.
On the flip side, Republican early-voter turnout in Nevada has also been low, sitting at levels far below those seen in the state's last red-wave election in 2014, according to the Nevada Independent's analysis. had a 3.4% edge over Republicans in early voting, or 14,500 votes. In Clark County, Nevada's most Democrat-heavy county, lagging turnout among Democratic registered voters is also apparent.
As of Thursday, just 25,000 Democratic voters had turned out so far, versus roughly 71,000 Democratic voters at this point in the 2018 midterms. These margins are crucial in a battleground state where Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden by just 34,000 votes in the 2020 presidential election.
While final race calls will come down to voting on Election Day, Nevada has tended to vote early in the past, with over half of the total vote coming from either absentee ballots or in-person early voting since 2014.
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