The Nevada Democratic Party will use a Google-powered calculator and party-issued iPads to track and tabulate results of the caucus.
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Rory Appleton joined the Review-Journal in May 2019 as a politics reporter after five years with The Fresno Bee, where he most recently covered politics. Born and raised in Fresno, he graduated with a degree in print journalism from Fresno State University before joining his hometown paper, where his work earned six California News Publishers Association top awards in a two-year span.
Culinary Union Local 226, Nevada’s most politically powerful union, declined to endorse any candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries.
Most of the remaining Democratic presidential contenders are heading to Las Vegas to campaign in advance of the Feb. 22 presidential caucuses.
The Culinary Union Local 226 denounced “vicious attacks,” after supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders objected to a union flyer that declared the senator wants to “end Culinary health care” in favor of his Medicare for All proposal.
With New Hampshire’s primary in the history books, most candidates are headed to Nevada, where they face uncertainty about hwo votes will be tabulated and winners selected.
Supporters of top candidates are busy training volunteers how to run Nevada’s caucuses, including the mathematical formulas involved in awarding delegates.
Nevada Democrats had originally planned to use an app for the caucus. But after a similar app failed miserably in Iowa, the party scrapped it.
Unlike the secret ballots cast in states that use primary elections, Nevada residents declare their presidential preferences in public meetings known as caucuses.
The hiring of a top presidential candidate’s staff member to a position within the Nevada Democratic Party has increased scrutiny of the party.
A flyer circulated by Culinary Union Local 226 appears to attack the Medicare for All policy advocated by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., said Saturday she believes former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign will rebound once the nominating contest shifts to Nevada.
The Nevada Democratic Party will convene the nation’s first-ever early caucus in just one week, but what it will look like and how it will work remain a mystery.
The Nevada Democratic Party may abandon an app similar to the one used in Iowa that failed, delaying caucus results in that state by nearly a full day.
Nonpartisan voters say they are fed up with political polarization, and are searching for moderate candidates and solutions to the issues they care about.
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