Nevada Primary/Caucus Megapost!

jordanlund@lemmy.worldmod to politics @lemmy.world – 25 points –

Welcome to a WEIRD week in Politics!

Thursday, 2/8 - Now with 54% reporting in the Nevada Caucus, Trump was declared the winner after just the first percent was in:

1% results:
Donald Trump - 97.6% - 362 votes
Ryan Binkley - 2.4% - 9 votes

54% results:
Donald Trump - 99.3% - 32,527 votes
Ryan Binkley - 0.7% - 235 votes

Tuesday, 2/6, marks the Nevada Primary where Nikki Haley is running primarily (!) against "None of the Above".

AP Results Page here, 88% counted:

https://apnews.com/ap-nevada-election-2024-results

On the Republican side, the AP has called "None of These Candidates" the winner.

None of These Candidates - 43,893 - 63.2%
Nikki Haley - 21,199 - 30.5%
Mike Pence - 2,752 - 4.0%
Tim Scott - 950 - 1.4%
John Castro - 235 - 0.3%

On the Democratic side, it's Biden all the way:

Joe Biden - 98,358 - 89.3%
None of These Candidates - 6,398 - 5.8%
Marianne Williamson - 3,173 - 2.9%
Gabriel Cornejo - 630 - 0.6%
Jason Palmer - 385 - 0.3%

Which, in the end, doesn't really matter because the delegates which determine who the party nominee are, are not apportioned by the state PRIMARY, they are determined in the state CAUCUS on Thursday, 2/8.

Trump is running largely unopposed in the Caucus.

We'll leave the megapost up long enough to cover both events.

Please keep all comments and posts related to the Primary and Caucus in this Megapost.

13

You are viewing a single comment
View all comments

What's the point of the primary if it doesn't determine the party nominee?

here is a WaPo article explaining the situation:

After decades of holding sparsely attended caucuses, which sometimes got messy and chaotic, Nevada legislators passed a law in 2021 requiring primary elections whenever more than one candidate was on the ballot. After more than a dozen candidates launched campaigns for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Nevada officials scheduled a Republican primary for Tuesday.


But that 2021 law contained a big loophole.


“There has to be a primary, but the law doesn’t say how the party allocates their delegates” that who will count toward determining the winner of the Republican presidential nomination, said Rebecca Gill, a political science professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.


That omission, combined with the intense lobbying of Nevada GOP leaders by former president Donald Trump, has led to a unique, and perhaps bewildering, scenario: Nevada this week will hold a state-run primary and party-run caucuses.

TL;DR: Nevada made a law to make the it easier for citizens to participate in the “select your party’s nominee” process, but it was written kinda poorly and has a huge loophole clearly contrary to the intent of the law, which the GOP is of course exploiting.

But why isn't Nikki Haley running in the caucus?

The Caucus was pushed specifically by Trump and Trump affiliated officials in Nevada.

Did they block her from the caucus, or did she choose not to enter the caucus? If the former, how, and if the latter, why?

From everything I read, the state sanctioned the Primary, then the party went behind everyones back to specifically set up the Caucus for Trump.

There's not a lot to do in Nevada beyond gambling and hookers.

1 more...
1 more...