In the 2020 Democratic caucus, Nevadans chose Bernie Sanders over now-President Joe Biden. More than two years later, Sanders returned to the Silver State with a different message — boosting vulnerable Democratic incumbents, including Gov. Steve Sisolak and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.

The incumbent Democrat champions renewable energy while her GOP challenger favors the “energy independence” he sees coming from oil and gas.

With the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June, the topic of abortion has been central to many Democrat’s campaigns, even in Nevada where the right to abortion is protected in state law.

Latino voters have long propelled Democrats to statewide victories in Nevada. But concerns over inflation and cost of living have made Democratic incumbents as vulnerable as ever in the state. Lisa Desjardins traveled to Las Vegas to talk with Latino voters about the contests that may well determine the balance of power in congress.

Amid a political climate where almost every issue seems to be distilled to Democrats versus Republicans, or conservative versus liberal, Question 3 has emerged to create strange bedfellows in Nevada.

The Democratic political machine the late Sen. Harry Reid built in Nevada during his decades in office may well be on its heels. That is, unless, a key constituency group he leaned on for so many years comes out to the polls as enthusiastically as it has in elections prior: labor unions.

Amid a political climate where almost every issue seems to be distilled to Democrats versus Republicans, or conservative versus liberal, Question 3 has emerged to create strange bedfellows in Nevada.

Amid a political climate where almost every issue seems to be distilled to Democrats versus Republicans, or conservative versus liberal, Question 3 has emerged to create strange bedfellows in Nevada.