Morning Jolt: The Republican Jackpot in Nevada

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY

October 29 2024

On the menu today: The Republican get-out-the-vote effort is going gangbusters in Nevada; remembering the obscure, forgotten guy who shaped the 2024 presidential race; the dangers of drop boxes and the perils of voting too early; and the right-of-center get-out-the-vote operation at work in key swing states that is operating almost entirely under the radar.

Banking the Early Vote

I don't know how much of the vote you need to see to have seen enough, as Dave Wasserman often says, but you figure the cake in Nevada is baking pretty quickly. As Jon Ralston reports, more than half the state's registered voters have already cast ballots — 700,000 of them, and so far, registered Republicans have turned out in bigger numbers than registered Democrats by a margin of roughly 40,000.

Ralston writes:

The Republican turnout edge is now almost 8 percent, almost 9 percent in Clark. The usually reliable Clark Dem ...

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