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Republicans' Early Voting Lead in Nevada 'Unheard Of'
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-early-voting-lead-nevada-unheard-1974267
Nearly 20,000 more registered Republicans have voted in Nevada thus far in the presidential election than registered Democrats, according to data released on Wednesday, which one local politics expert described as "unheard of at this point in any other presidential cycle."
According to figures from the Nevada Secretary of State's office, shared on X by Decision Desk data analyst Michael Pruser, 159,388 registered Republicans had voted in the Silver State as of Wednesday evening, well ahead of the 140,878 Democrats and 97,529 voters with a different or no party affiliation.
The early results in the key swing state come as a blow to the Democrats, who have historically performed well with early and mail in voters. Recent surveys suggest the race remains too close, with election website FiveThirtyEight, which analyzes survey data, giving Trump a 51 percent chance of victory in November versus 49 percent for Harris.
Jon Ralston, editor of The Nevada Independent, described the results as "unheard of at this point in any other presidential cycle" on X, and said there is "no good news" in the figures for Democrats in a blogpost on his website.
He wrote: "I now feel like I am in the upside-down world. In past cycles, I would be telling you how the Dems were slowly building a firewall in Clark (tens of thousands more ballots than Republicans). They have successfully done this in every presidential election since 2008.
"But the opposite is happening: Thanks to a rural tsunami, the GOP has moved out to a substantial ballot lead."
Clark County is by some margin the most populous in the state containing Las Vegas, where the Democrats have traditionally performed best.
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-early-voting-lead-nevada-unheard-1974267
Nearly 20,000 more registered Republicans have voted in Nevada thus far in the presidential election than registered Democrats, according to data released on Wednesday, which one local politics expert described as "unheard of at this point in any other presidential cycle."
According to figures from the Nevada Secretary of State's office, shared on X by Decision Desk data analyst Michael Pruser, 159,388 registered Republicans had voted in the Silver State as of Wednesday evening, well ahead of the 140,878 Democrats and 97,529 voters with a different or no party affiliation.
The early results in the key swing state come as a blow to the Democrats, who have historically performed well with early and mail in voters. Recent surveys suggest the race remains too close, with election website FiveThirtyEight, which analyzes survey data, giving Trump a 51 percent chance of victory in November versus 49 percent for Harris.
Jon Ralston, editor of The Nevada Independent, described the results as "unheard of at this point in any other presidential cycle" on X, and said there is "no good news" in the figures for Democrats in a blogpost on his website.
He wrote: "I now feel like I am in the upside-down world. In past cycles, I would be telling you how the Dems were slowly building a firewall in Clark (tens of thousands more ballots than Republicans). They have successfully done this in every presidential election since 2008.
"But the opposite is happening: Thanks to a rural tsunami, the GOP has moved out to a substantial ballot lead."
Clark County is by some margin the most populous in the state containing Las Vegas, where the Democrats have traditionally performed best.
