LAS VEGAS (AP) — A veteran northern Nevada Republican congressman is considering a run for governor in 2022.
A month after winning reelection to Congress, U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei told a Vegas...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Though final results from Nevada’s presidential caucuses were still trickling in early this week, top Democrats in the state didn’t waste time in calling for Nevada to switch to a...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he didn't pick former Nevada Sen. Dean Heller to be his nominee for U.S. Interior Secretary because he couldn't get his base excited about the Republican.
"I just could never get my base excited on him," Trump told reporters Wednesday.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's new U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen said Thursday she was humbled to be sworn into office but said Congress needs start working to end the partial government shutdown.
She spoke to reporters by telephone from Washington, hours after taking the oath of office on the 13th day of the shutdown over money for President Donald Trump's border wall.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republican Sen. Dean Heller won't say whether he thinks his alliance with President Donald Trump doomed his re-election chances this year and instead points to strong Democratic enthusiasm and voter registration numbers as reasons for his first-ever election loss.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller is thanking his family and staff and touting the work of his office in a farewell speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Heller in a speech in Washington Thursday morning cited his work on veterans' issues and the 2017 Republican tax overhaul as among his top accomplishments in his seven years in the Senate.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Harry Reid may no longer lead Senate Democrats in Washington, but the political machine he built in Nevada has Republicans on the run.
Democrats romped up and down the state in the Nov. 6 midterm elections, ousting Republican Sen. Dean Heller, winning races for governor and lieutenant governor, and expanding their state legislative majorities.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Harry Reid may no longer lead Senate Democrats in Washington, but the political machine he built in Nevada has Republicans on the run.
Democrats romped up and down the state in the Nov. 6 midterm elections, ousting Republican Sen. Dean Heller, winning races for governor and lieutenant governor, and expanding their state legislative majorities.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's new Sen.-elect Jacky Rosen said Tuesday she would like to see President Donald Trump be less divisive and the president's new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, recuse himself from overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on Nevada's election (all times local):
4:50 p.m.
A female political movement driven by backlash to President Donald Trump kicked off the year with a women's march in Nevada.
Eleven months later, that activism helped women win key races across the state, including ousting an incumbent U.S. Senator, electing a female-majority federal delegation and leaving the state poised for a potential female-majority Assembly.
A majority of Nevada voters said the country is headed in the wrong direction as they went to the polls Tuesday, a sentiment that helped propel Democrats to a sweep of pivotal races for Congress and the governor's office, according to a wide-ranging survey of the American electorate.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Democratic "blue wave" hit up and down the ballot in Nevada on Tuesday, toppling an incumbent Republican U.S. senator, keeping two open U.S. House seats in the Democratic column and giving the party its first Nevada governor in two decades.
The wins in the battleground state fueled by powerfully organized labor unions and backlash to President Donald Trump also kept the state Legislature in Democratic hands.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democrats picked up a U.S. Senate seat in Nevada on Tuesday night when Rep. Jacky Rosen ousted incumbent Republican Dean Heller, a one-time critic of President Donald Trump who later tethered himself to the president.
"Donald Trump said that he was on the ballot in this election," Rosen said in her victory speech. "Well, I'm really proud to say Nevada responded accordingly."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is getting several new members as Republicans retain control. A look at some of the new senators, all but one a Republican from a state where President Donald Trump remains popular:
JACKY ROSEN (Nevada Democrat)
Nevada's newest senator, Jacky Rosen, decided to take on incumbent Republican Sen. Dean Heller last year when she was only six months into her first term as congresswoman from the Las Vegas area.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Democrat running to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Dean Heller in Nevada spent the morning before Election Day rallying union members making an intensive get-out-the-vote push that could help swing the close race in her favor.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Battleground races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and governor will make Nevada voters Tuesday a key decider of power in Congress and the state's political landscape for a decade.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Four out of 10 of Nevada's active voters already have cast their ballots ahead of Tuesday's general election, with Democrats leading Republicans in statewide turnout 41 percent to 38 percent, the Secretary of State's Office said Saturday.
Independents, non-partisan and other parties made up 21 percent of the early turnout.
The 40.2 percent total early turnout among the 1.6 million active registered voters includes in-person voting, absentees and mail-in ballots.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Latest on the final push on the campaign trail in Nevada ahead of Tuesday's general election (all times local):
4:40 p.m.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is the latest big name helping boost Nevada Republicans in the battleground western state.
Giuliani planned an appearance late Saturday afternoon at the Las Vegas field office of GOP congressional candidate Danny Tarkanian.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democrat Jacky Rosen and Republican Dean Heller made a final push on opposite ends of Nevada Friday to mobilize voters on the last day of early voting in their razor-thin contest for U.S. Senate
The race could help Democrats find a narrow path to taking power, and Heller is considered uniquely vulnerable this year.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Senate race in Nevada (all times local):
7:35 p.m.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel is praising Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen of Nevada while roasting President Donald Trump and Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller at a get-out-the-vote rally in Las Vegas.
Kimmel, Rosen and other Democrats spoke at a downtown Las Vegas art walk amid the final hours of early voting in the state's razor-thin U.S. Senate race.
WASHINGTON (AP) — From President Donald Trump to Oprah Winfrey, top political surrogates are fanning out in key battleground states to appeal to voters during the final days of the 2018 midterm campaigns.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Ivanka Trump praised Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller on Thursday for the role he played in passing the 2017 GOP tax bill and the doubling of the child tax credit that came with it.
Making a rare appearance this year on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser predicted Heller will win his tight battle for re-election against Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence campaigned in a heavily Republican area of northern Nevada on Saturday with the state's GOP Sen. Dean Heller, who is in a critical re-election race that could play a role in swinging power in the U.S. Senate this November.
Heller is the only Republican senator running for re-election in a state that Democrat Hillary Clinton won in 2016.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Senate race in Nevada (all times local):
5 p.m.
Vice President Mike Pence says U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada is a "strong, principled conservative voice" who helped repeal a requirement that most Americans buy health insurance or risk a tax penalty.
Pence said at a rally with Nevada Republicans in Carson City that Heller is also "100 percent pro-life" and "strong on borders."
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says he hopes Democratic opposition to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh "blows up in their face."
Graham made the comments while appearing with Nevada Sen. Dean Heller near Las Vegas on Friday hours after authorities arrested a Florida man suspected of sending pipe bombs to Democrats and prominent critics of President Donald Trump.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders urged Nevada college students on Thursday to resist President Donald Trump and Republicans by turning out voters for Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen, who is in a tight race for Nevada's GOP-held Senate seat.
Rosen, who represents the Las Vegas area, rallied with the former presidential candidate at the University of Nevada, Reno as early voting is underway in the state.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former President Barack Obama delivered a biting critique of Republicans in Washington and President Donald Trump's administration on Monday but avoided mentioning his successor by name.
Obama, speaking at a rally in Las Vegas for Nevada Democrats, said Republicans had promised to "fight for the little guy" but instead helped corporations and sowed divisions in America.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Republicans running in Nevada's hotly contested races for governor and U.S. Senate are taking aim at a common target as they try to maintain GOP control of the seats: California.
As more Californians have poured across the state line over the past few years, many of them escaping sky-high housing costs, some Nevada Republicans fear a state that already has become a political battleground will begin to resemble its deep blue neighbor.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden spoke of working class struggles and said President Donald Trump is shredding American values as the Democrat rallied union members in Las Vegas to support Jacky Rosen and other Nevada Democrats.
Rosen, a freshman congresswoman from the Las Vegas-area, is challenging incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Dean Heller and the race is seen as one of Democrats' best chances to flip a seat this November.
ELKO, Nev. (AP) — Campaigning on opposite sides of a pivotal Senate race, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden appealed to party loyalists in Nevada as early voting began Saturday in the state.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Sen. Dean Heller accused Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen on Friday of making a visit to see separated families at the U.S.-Mexico border in order to stage a "photo-op," while she described the incumbent Republican as a "rubber-stamp" for President Donald Trump whose tax plan benefits the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the Senate race between Republican Dean Heller and Democrat Jacky Rosen (all times local):
7:15 p.m.
Nevada Sen. Dean Heller accused Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen of making a visit to see separated families at the U.S.-Mexico border to stage a "photo-op" while she described the incumbent Republican as a "rubber-stamp" for President Donald Trump whose tax plan benefits the wealthy at the expense of the middle-class.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Outdoor clothing giant Patagonia jumped into two competitive Senate races Friday, endorsing Democrats Jon Tester of Montana and Jacky Rosen of Nevada in what the company called its first foray into elective politics.
The company described Tester and Rosen as champions of public lands and the outdoor industry. Tester is seeking a third term in the Senate while Rosen is a freshman House member who is challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Dean Heller.