{"id":46766,"date":"2023-10-01T13:17:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T20:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=46766"},"modified":"2023-10-02T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T19:20:17","slug":"more-bad-press-for-nevada-gops-chaos-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/more-bad-press-for-nevada-gops-chaos-caucus\/","title":{"rendered":"More Bad Press for Nevada GOP\u2019s \u201cChaos Caucus\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Chuck Muth) \u2013 The following editorial was published Sunday morning in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the state\u2019s largest newspaper with a conservative-libertarian editorial predisposition\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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EDITORIAL: NV GOP shows its cluelessness with plan to confuse its voters<\/strong><\/p>\n


The biggest winners<\/strong>\u00a0in the Nevada GOP presidential selection process\u00a0are Nevada Democrats.<\/strong>
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Last weekend, state Republicans met in Winnemucca to determine how the state\u2019s presidential delegates will be awarded.\u00a0State law dictates there will be a presidential primary on Feb. 6.\u00a0<\/strong>Nevada Republican chairman Michael McDonald led an effort to instead hold a presidential caucus two days later.
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At its central committee meeting, Republicans approved his plan.
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That may seem convoluted, but\u00a0the complications are just beginning<\/strong>. Under the rules adopted last weekend, GOP presidential candidates who add their names to the state-run primary are prohibited from participating in the caucus.
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Practically, this is a mess<\/strong>. Every Republican voter will be sent a primary ballot in the mail. The state will also run early voting and Election Day voting sites. But those results for Republicans will have no bearing on who wins party delegates. That will be determined two days later during the caucus, a more complex process.
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In addition, the caucus and the primary won\u2019t even feature the same candidates.\u00a0Don\u2019t expect Donald Trump diehards to be happy when they receive a mail ballot without his name on it.<\/strong>
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This will no doubt confuse many registered Republicans<\/strong>. A GOP candidate will win the primary, and the average voter might consider the matter closed. But two days later, another candidate will win the party-run caucus and be awarded the delegates in play.
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It\u2019s obvious this complex process is intended to benefit Mr. Trump, the candidate favored by Mr. McDonald and other party leaders<\/strong>. Republicans also passed a motion to prevent super PACs from participating in the caucus. That\u2019s a slap at Nevada Back Down, the active super PAC supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. That group stopped (paid)\u00a0door knocking here when it became obvious the state GOP wasn\u2019t providing a level playing field.
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Unsurprisingly, Mr. Trump committed to joining the caucus shortly after the state GOP passed its plan. The only other confirmed participant is businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, who has linked himself closely to Mr. Trump during the campaign.
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Nevada holds the third-earliest contest on the Republican nominating calendar. The other early states, including Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, have leveraged their prime spots into frequent visits from presidential candidates.\u00a0But the caucus-primary controversy has prevented Nevada from doing the same.<\/strong>
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This is a missed opportunity. The state party could have used the interest in this contest to boost its voter registration numbers. Competing campaigns would have even done much of the work. The GOP could have tested its new push to get its voters to vote early and by mail.\u00a0Instead, Nevada will be ignored, and Republican voters will be left confused.<\/strong>
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Political parties have the right to select their nominees any way they deem proper. But\u00a0this fiasco highlights how a state GOP that has had little electoral success of late continues to grope around in the dark<\/strong>.
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7 Worst Habits of Highly Unelectable People<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Picking the wrong race<\/li>\n
  2. Picking the wrong district<\/li>\n
  3. Picking the wrong issues<\/li>\n
  4. Picking the wrong time<\/li>\n
  5. Picking the wrong consultants<\/li>\n
  6. Picking unnecessary fights with the media<\/li>\n
  7. Picking door-knocking over fundraising<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    FAMOUS LAST WORDS<\/strong>
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    \u201cThe only time Joe Biden has ever gotten his hands dirty is when he’s taking cash from foreign countries.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Donald Trump<\/em><\/strong>
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    \u201cCalifornia represents the petri dish of American leftism. Whatever Biden\u2019s doing now, California is a few years ahead\u2026 A second Biden term – or heaven forbid a Harris or Newsom [term] – they are going to try to impose California policies across the entire country.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Ron DeSantis<\/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) \u2013 The following editorial was published Sunday morning in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the state\u2019s largest newspaper with a conservative-libertarian editorial predisposition\u2026 EDITORIAL: NV GOP shows its cluelessness with plan to confuse its voters The biggest winners\u00a0in the Nevada GOP presidential selection process\u00a0are Nevada Democrats.\u00a0Last weekend, state Republicans met in Winnemucca to determine […]<\/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\/46766"}],"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=46766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46768,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46766\/revisions\/46768"}],"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=46766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}