Republicans are inching up in the polls as Nevada Democrats grapple with everything from disputes over primary endorsements to fundraising complications.
Clearly it was an unhappy development, especially for a Democratic incumbent governor in the final weeks of a close reelection race, but it didn’t appear debilitating: The state’s largest teachers’ union announced last week that it would be withholding an endorsement. For connoisseurs of Nevada politics, though, the news was closer to the rumble of an approaching earthquake. “This would never have happened,” one Nevada Democratic insider says, “if Senator Reid were still alive.
Harry Reid was a singular, quirky figure in both American and Nevada politics: a Mormon and an accomplished amateur boxer who’d grown up impoverished in a tiny rural town—his family lived in a shack with no running water or phone—and had risen to become, as Senate majority leader, the second most powerful person in Washington. During that journey Reid faced what he anticipated would be his most difficult reelection run, in the 2010 midterms.
has inherited leadership of the machine, a succession that makes other Democrats hopeful, if not completely confident, this fall. “Rebecca Lambe is the single best strategist in the state of Nevada and one of the best strategists in the country,” says’s 2018 defeat of incumbent Nevada Republican senatorYet even Lambe wasn’t able to head off a damaging fracture with the state’s Democratic Party.
Perhaps a larger problem for Cortez Masto, Sisolak, and the Reid machine is that unlike in other high-profile races around the country, their Republican opponents are more polished than many of their neophyte colleagues. Laxalt, the Senate candidate, and, the gubernatorial candidate, are plenty conservative, but neither has an expanding list of secret children or has peddled “miracle” weight-loss remedies.
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