The Trump campaign has been hitting Nevada harder than ever this election season, and officials seem to believe the state might be President Trump’s for …
The Trump campaign has been hitting Nevada harder than ever this election season, and officials seem to believe the state might be President Trump’s for the taking this November. Nevada hasn’t elected a Republican president since George Bush in 2004, but could that change this year? Trump lost the Silver State, which has six votes in the electoral college, in 2016 to Hillary Clinton by 2.4%, a lower margin than Barack Obama won the state in the previous two elections. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has consistently led the state in polling. FiveThirtyEight’s current polling average has Biden up by 6.5%—slightly lower than his national polling average lead according to FiveThirtyEight, which is 7.3%. Yet Rep. Mark Amodei, Nevada’s only Republican in the House, seems optimistic. «I kind of chuckle, I don’t think Governor Sisolak called the legislature into special session 90 days before the election to change a bunch of election rules because they thought it was a slam dunk for Joe Biden,» Amodei told Fox News in an interview. «Especially when governors historically are loath to call the legislature into special session,» he continued. In August, Nevada’s Democrat-controlled state legislature overhauled its mail-in voting system, approving a plan to send absentee ballots to every registered voter in the state. Trump, valiantly defying Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak’s coronavirus orders, has held two rallies in the state. “Fifty-two days from now, we’re going to win Nevada, and then we’re going to win another four years,” Trump told supporters in the state. The president’s children have held events in the state in the past week- Donald Trump Jr.
