In The News: Department of Political Science
Gov. Steve Sisolak, with about 40% of state votes tallied, took 89.9% of the vote against former Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins in the Democratic gubernatorial primary to advance to the November election, where he is expected to face a stiff Republican challenge from Joe Lombardo, who received 39% of the vote statewide . In Clark County, Sisolak picked up 79.6% of votes and Lombardo got 47.9%.
Marjorie Bleam considers herself a moderate voter who doesn’t always have a “home” in either major political party, so leading up to the primary election, she switched her voter registration from Democrat to Republican.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to overturn the landmark abortion ruling Roe v. Wade in the coming weeks.
Leading Republicans in Nevada, many of whom are promoting false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election, weren’t commenting on findings revealed Thursday by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
What typically have been quiet races centering on competency and efficiency have heated up over the issue of election integrity.
One television ad proclaims this candidate will keep Nevada safe and get the state “back on track.” At the end of the advertisement, there is notice saying the message is not from the candidate, but an outside group not affiliated with the candidate.
China should not interfere with commercial dealings between Taiwan and the European Union especially when increased economic resilience between the two sides contribute to the benefit of the global economy, a senior Taiwan minister told CNBC.
Nevada, a longtime presidential battleground state, is hosting another key race in 2022 — the fight to control one of the state’s two seats in the U.S. Senate.
Nerses Kopalyan, Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, talks to CivilNet about his recent article entitled The False Promise of Security: Why the Opposition Protests in Armenia Are Struggling to Gain Traction. Professor Kopaylan discusses police brutality in Armenia, the “democracy versus security” narrative, and where the protests may be heading towards.
The alleged gunman has ties to Taiwan, as his victims do, but he routinely presented himself as allied with Beijing.
Nearly all of the Republicans seeking to be elected Nevada secretary of state share a common goal: roll back voter access laws to improve “security” and “integrity.”
Reno attorney and former boxer Joey Gilbert received the Nevada Republican Party’s endorsement for governor, just a couple of days after Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo received former President Donald Trump’s endorsement.