Donald Trump won his sixth swing state of the 2024 elections early Saturday, defeating Kamala Harris in Nevada.
Trump was declared the winner with 50.7 percent of the vote, compared to Harris’s 47.4 percent, after analysts concluded there were not enough uncounted ballots in the state’s strongest Democratic areas to close the lead. to overcome the former president’s 46,000 votes.
Trump clinched a second term early Wednesday when Wisconsin pushed him past the 270 electoral votes needed to win, so Nevada’s six electoral votes only added to the magnitude of his victory.
He now has 301 electoral votes to Harris’ 226 and has won six of the seven battleground states. Only Arizona remains to be drafted, wherever he is favored to win.
Nevada has one of the best presidential candidate records, although voters there supported Democrat Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016.
Donald Trump won his sixth swing state of the 2024 elections early Saturday, defeating Kamala Harris in Nevada
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The state remains a hotly contested battleground. Both Harris and Trump have made regular visits to Nevada since they became their parties’ nominees, including Halloween rallies in Clark County, home to Henderson and Las Vegas.
Both campaigns focused their visits on these two cities, as well as Reno in Washoe County.
Just two days before polls opened for the 2024 election, Trump was just 0.5 percent ahead of the FiveThirtyEight average in Nevada.
Nevada voted against Trump in 2016 and 2020.
Hillary Clinton won the state in 2016 by 2.5 percent and four years later Joe Biden defeated Trump by almost the same margin, 2.4 percent.
In statewide elections, Democrats typically hold just two of Nevada’s seventeen counties: Clark and Washoe. Whether they win depends on how big their margins are in those two provinces.
Clark County has by far the largest population in the state. A large voting margin there is crucial for democratic electoral success.
It accounted for 69% of the total statewide vote in 2020. Washoe is more competitive, though Democrats there have consistently had the upper hand in high-profile statewide campaigns, including Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak’s failed 2022 reelection bid.
Republicans tend to win the rest of the state by wide margins.
The majority of the final ballots to be counted come from Clark and Washoe counties. They both have a long history of supporting Democrats for president. Statewide, votes counted after Election Day also favored Democrats.
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Both Harris and Trump have made regular visits to Nevada since becoming their parties’ nominees
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Trump’s voting lead narrowed as more of these ballots were counted over the course of the week, but Harris did not win those ballots by a large enough margin to overtake Trump for the lead.
It comes at the same time there were reports that Senator Jacky Rosen managed to detain her Senate is in it Nevada securing an important victory for Democrats in the state of the battlefield.
After several days of votes being counted, the race was called for Rosen after trailing Republican Sam Brown several times since the first results came in on election night. She won with a majority of 20,571 and 675,318 votes.
The incumbent president faced a challenge from Brown, a veteran and businessman, in a state that Republicans saw as a possible stepping stone to expanding their Senate majority after the chamber flipped on election night.
Rosen was first elected to the Senate in the Silver State in 2018 during the midterm elections, which resulted in a blue wave midway through Donald Trump’s first term that saw former Senator Dean Heller ousted despite being only a freshman was a member of the House of Representatives.
Rosen ran a campaign aimed at protecting women’s reproductive rights and delivering on a state whose economy has been decimated by the coronavirus pandemic.
One Senate race remains unresolved, with Democrats holding on to their lead in Arizona, which would give Republicans a 53-to-47 seat majority, a gain of four seats.
Democrat Ruben Gallego leads Trump ally Kari Lake in Arizona by just over 30,000 votes, with 82% of votes counted to fill Kyrsten Sinema’s seat.
Trump’s voting lead narrowed as more of these ballots were counted over the course of the week, but Harris did not win those ballots by a large enough margin to overtake Trump for the lead
The House of Representatives results continue to evolve slowly, with Republicans holding 212 seats, six of which are unable to maintain their majority.
Democrats have won 200 seats and hold the lead in 12 of the uncalled races, which would put them at 212, a loss of one seat from their minority position in 2022.
Lakshya Jain, a polling analyst for Split Ticketgave Democrats no more than a 15% chance of late voting, giving them the comebacks needed to win a shocking majority.