{"id":46615,"date":"2023-08-15T13:15:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T20:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=46615"},"modified":"2023-08-15T12:18:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T19:18:46","slug":"nevada-gop-bumbles-into-another-self-inflicted-wound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/nevada-gop-bumbles-into-another-self-inflicted-wound\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada GOP Bumbles into Another Self-Inflicted Wound"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Chuck Muth)<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 If shooting yourself in the foot was an Olympic event, the Nevada Republican Party would be gold medal winners.
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Yesterday, the state GOP announced it will hold its presidential \u201ccaucus\u201d on Thursday, February 8, 2024 \u2013 two days after the State of Nevada holds its legislatively-mandated presidential primary.
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The party sued to block the primary but lost in court.\u00a0 And if you think the dueling elections are going to confuse the hell out of Republican voters\u2026you\u2019re right.
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Delegates to the Republican National Convention will be decided by the results of the caucus, not the primary.\u00a0 Which means the primary will pretty much be just a beauty contest with no meaning \u2013 other than bragging rights.
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Republican voters who wish to have a say in who goes to the national convention and which GOP candidate gets their support will have to show up in-person on February 8 at 5:00 pm at locations not yet determined.
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Republican voters who wish to have a say in the primary beauty contest will be able to vote at any time on February 6 (Ronald Reagan\u2019s birthday!) at any regular polling location.\u00a0 They\u2019ll also be able to vote early or vote by mail.
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Guess which one is going to get the bigger turnout?
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But according to a\u00a0report<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by Jessica Hill in today\u2019s Las Vegas Review-Journal, it\u2019s going to be even worse than that.\u00a0
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The Nevada GOP is also telling the various presidential campaigns \u201cthey must not participate in the state presidential preference primary \u2013 such as filing a statement of candidacy with the state \u2013 or else they will not be able to participate in the caucus and will be awarded no delegates.\u201d
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So not only is the party shutting out tens of thousands of Republican voters who can\u2019t\/won\u2019t vote in the caucus for a wide variety of reasons, the Nevada GOP is extorting legitimate Republican candidates from even filing to appear\u00a0on the primary ballot!<\/strong>
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Now, riddle me this, Batman\u2026
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Let\u2019s say Trump figures he has the caucus in the bag and opts\u00a0NOT<\/u>\u00a0to participate in the state\u2019s primary.\u00a0 That means another GOP candidate will win the primary, but Trump will get all the convention delegates.
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Or let\u2019s say Trump\u00a0DOES<\/u>\u00a0participate in the primary and another candidate beats him. Seems unlikely at this point, but it\u2019s still way early. Anything can happen.
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This is gonna be a major PR disaster for the GOP as Nevada Republican voters come to realize what the party has done to them.\u00a0
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But the party doesn\u2019t care. The Nevada GOP is, for all intents and purposes, the Trump campaign in Nevada.\u00a0 Heck, its executive director, Alida Benson, only recently resigned and is now the state director for the Trump campaign!
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The political Siamese twins apparently believe Trump will crush his opposition in a tightly-controlled caucus \u2013 where they can make and change the rules at will, as they\u2019ve done in the past – but that in an open primary, with far more Republican voters participating, all bets are off.
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In addition, the party itself will be spending tens of thousands \u2013 if not hundreds of thousands \u2013 of dollars it doesn\u2019t have holding their alternative caucus rather than participating in the primary, which is paid by the public.
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That\u2019s a lot of money the party *could* be using to, you know, elect more Republicans at the state and local level \u2013 including legislative seats where the GOP is currently in a super-minority in the Assembly and just one seat away from a super-minority in the Senate.
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But for the Nevada GOP, nothing \u2013\u00a0NOTHING<\/u>\u00a0\u2013 matters other than stacking the deck to assure Donald Trump gets the state\u2019s convention delegates next February.
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Sorry, Gov. Lombardo.\u00a0 You\u2019re on your own protecting your 75 vetoes.
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Trump has incessantly complained that his 2020 election was rigged \u2013 and there\u2019s certainly truth to that.\u00a0 But now he\u2019s the one doing the rigging for 2024.
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I guess he believes if you can\u2019t beat \u2018em, join \u2018em.
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Baby, You Can Drive My Car<\/strong>
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Over the weekend I signed\/co-signed for our family\u2019s third new (used) car in less than three months.\u00a0 When it rains, it pours!
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I got a new (used) 2006 Lincoln Town Car in June to replace my 2015 Hyundai that some lady totaled last October when she blew through a red light and t-boned me.
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Daughter Jenna got a new (used) 2015 Ford Explorer in July after her Dodge Caravan\u2019s tranny went on the fritz.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about \u201ctransmission,\u201d not \u201ctransgender.\u201d
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On Saturday, daughter Kristen drove off in a 2021 Toyota Tacoma to replace her 2006 Nissan Versa that blew its engine.<\/p>\n

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We shopped at a\u00a0LOT<\/u>\u00a0of dealerships and talked to a\u00a0LOT<\/u>\u00a0of salesmen over the last three months.\u00a0 Not a knock on any of the others, but my new personal auto sales consultant, Silas Walker at Findlay Lincoln Mercury, is in a class all to himself.
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All three of our deals had challenges \u2013 Jenna was upside down on her Caravan loan by some $6,000! – but Silas went above and beyond in putting them together for us.\u00a0
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So if you\u2019re in the market for a used car \u2013 or even a brand new Lincoln! \u2013 give Silas a call and let him know I referred you.\u00a0 He\u2019s somebody I absolutely trust and will take care of you like nobody\u2019s business.
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Silas\u2019 cell phone is (702) 235-1065.
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS<\/strong>
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\u201cTwo years ago, the world watched in horror as Joe Biden withdrew from Afghanistan in a way that betrayed our allies and emboldened our enemies.\u00a0 Disaster followed. Thirteen American service members were killed, China grew increasingly aggressive toward Taiwan, Russia invaded Ukraine, and terrorists took over Afghanistan with the help of American equipment and supplies.” \u2013\u00a0GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley<\/em><\/strong>
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Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, publisher of Nevada News & Views, and founder of CampaignDoctor.com.\u00a0 You can sign up for his conservative, Nevada-focused e-newsletter at MuthsTruths.com.\u00a0 His views are his own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth)\u00a0\u2013 If shooting yourself in the foot was an Olympic event, the Nevada Republican Party would be gold medal winners.\u00a0Yesterday, the state GOP announced it will hold its presidential \u201ccaucus\u201d on Thursday, February 8, 2024 \u2013 two days after the State of Nevada holds its legislatively-mandated presidential primary.\u00a0The party sued to block the primary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[3466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46615"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46617,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46615\/revisions\/46617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}