Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on Monday released a statement endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden for president.
Steve Sebelius
Politics and Government Editor
Email: ssebelius@reviewjournal.com
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Steve Sebelius oversees the Review-Journal's Washington and Carson City bureaus, as well as the reporting team covering local governments in Clark County. He also writes a weekly politics column for the Sunday Viewpoints section. Sebelius previously worked for the RJ between 2000 and 2017. He returned to the RJ in March 2019. Sebelius has been the on-air political analyst for KLAS-TV Channel 8 for 10 years. He also has co-hosted “PoliticsNow,” Nevada’s only political television program, on the channel since 2015.
Democrats prepared to abandon method in favor of a primary.
Former Vice President Joe Biden won a decisive victory in the South Carolina primary on Saturday, rescuing his flagging campaign from a trio of early state disappointments and bolstering his momentum heading into the Super Tuesday contests next week.
More than 105,000 people participated in the Nevada Democratic Party’s presidential caucuses, with most turning out during early voting. It was the second-highest turnout since the state moved to an early spot on the nominating calendar in 2008.
Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid said in a statement Sunday that the Democratic Party should abandon caucuses everywhere and switch to primary elections to nominate the president instead.
From loving Bernie Sanders to hating the caucus process, here are five things to take away from Saturday’s Democratic presidential voting in Nevada.
Democratic candidates for president ended up debating socialism versus capitalism during an NBC/MSNBC debate in Las Vegas on Feb. 19, just ahead of the Nevada caucuses.
Nevada state Sen. Pat Spearman didn’t start out fighting for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, but now she’s one of its biggest champions.
Six Democratic candidates for president went after each other more than in any previous debate, as they struggle for attention and votes in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses.
Tuesday is the final day of the four-day early voting period in Nevada, with caucus sites open throughout the state.
Early voting in the Nevada Democratic caucuses continues Monday, with sites open throughout the valley.
Presidential candidates Joe Biden, Tom Steyer, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg shared their ideas for infrastructure reform and took questions during a forum at UNLV in Las Vegas on Sunday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden criticized their rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination during a dinner in Las Vegas Saturday, the first day of early voting in Nevada’s caucus.
After performing poorly in early states, Joe Biden confronts a disappointing poll result and a strong Sanders campaign in the Nevada caucuses.
The failure of the Iowa caucus shows it’s long past time to let another state move up on the presidential nominating calendar, and to get rid of the caucus system while we’re at it.
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