Guide to Nevada’s primary election
By James DeHaven, Reno Gazette-Journal
Nevadans who haven’t kept up with the state’s upcoming elections, take heart — the rest of the country is paying plenty of attention for you.
Three months before party primary voters decide which candidates will appear on November’s general election ballot, money and media attention has poured into races for the Silver State’s top political spots, among them an open governor’s seat and one of the nation’s most closely watched U.S. Senate contests.
Washoe County — narrowly won by Hillary Clinton in 2016 — figures to play a decisive role in both of those races, as Democrats seek to close a slim 6,000-person countywide voter registration edge held by Republicans armed with a pricey new data-driven voter turnout initiative.