2020 United States presidential election in Nevada
The 2020 United States presidential election in Nevada is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate.[1] Nevada voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Nevada has 6 electoral votes in the Electoral College.[2]
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Caucuses
Canceled Republican caucuses
On September 7, 2019, the Nevada Republican Party became one of several state GOP parties to officially cancel their respective primaries and caucuses.[3] Donald Trump's re-election campaign and GOP officials have cited the fact that Republicans canceled several state primaries when George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush sought a second term in 1992 and 2004, respectively; and Democrats scrapped some of their primaries when Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were seeking reelection in 1996 and 2012, respectively.[4][5] In August 2019, the Associated Press quoted the state party spokesman, Keith Schipper, who stated it "isn't about any kind of conspiracy theory about protecting the president ... He's going to be the nominee ... This is about protecting resources to make sure that the president wins in Nevada and that Republicans up and down the ballot win in 2020."[6]
In lieu of conducting their caucuses, the state party's governing central committee instead formally held an Alternative Presidential Preference Poll on February 22, 2020,[7] voting by acclamation to officially bind all 25 of its national pledged delegates to Trump.[8][9]
Democratic caucuses
The Nevada Democratic caucuses were held primarily on February 22, 2020, with early voting conducted from February 14 to 18.
Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucuses, with Joe Biden coming in second and Pete Buttigieg in third.[10]
Candidate | First alignment |
Final alignment[lower-alpha 1] |
County convention delegates[lower-alpha 2] |
Pledged national convention delegates[lower-alpha 3][15] | |||
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Bernie Sanders | 35,652 | 34.0 | 41,075 | 40.5 | 6,788 | 46.8 | 24 |
Joe Biden | 18,424 | 17.6 | 19,179 | 18.9 | 2,927 | 20.2 | 9 |
Pete Buttigieg | 16,102 | 15.4 | 17,598 | 17.3 | 2,073 | 14.3 | 3 |
Elizabeth Warren | 13,438 | 12.8 | 11,703 | 11.5 | 1,406 | 9.7 | 0 |
Tom Steyer | 9,503 | 9.1 | 4,120 | 4.1 | 682 | 4.7 | 0 |
Amy Klobuchar | 10,100 | 9.6 | 7,376 | 7.3 | 603 | 4.2 | 0 |
Tulsi Gabbard | 353 | 0.3 | 32 | 0.0 | 4 | 0.0 | 0 |
Andrew Yang (withdrawn) | 612 | 0.6 | 49 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
Michael Bennet (withdrawn) | 140 | 0.1 | 36 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
Deval Patrick (withdrawn) | 86 | 0.1 | 8 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
John Delaney (withdrawn) | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
Uncommitted | 472 | 0.4 | 367 | 0.4 | 7 | 0.0 | 0 |
Total | 104,883 | 100% | 101,543 | 100% | 14,491 | 100% | 36 |
Delay
Similarly to the Iowa caucus, there were some controversies surrounding the outcome of the caucus. One day after voting, with forty percent of the precincts not reported, Pete Buttigieg questioned the results citing more than "200 reports of problems merging the early votes".[16][17] Full set of results were published two days after the caucus.[18]
Reports of "confusion, calculation glitches and delays in reporting" emerged once again, bringing into question the future of caucuses,[19] with former Nevada Senator Harry Reid calling for Nevada to switch to a primary system.[20]
General election
Predictions
Source | Ranking | As of |
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The Cook Political Report[21] | Likely D | July 23, 2020 |
Inside Elections[22] | Likely D | July 17, 2020 |
Sabato's Crystal Ball[23] | Lean D | July 14, 2020 |
Politico[24] | Lean D | July 6, 2020 |
RCP[25] | Tossup | August 3, 2020 |
Niskanen[26] | Likely D | March 24, 2020 |
CNN[27] | Lean D | August 3, 2020 |
The Economist[28] | Likely D | August 7, 2020 |
CBS News[29] | Lean D | August 9, 2020 |
270towin[30] | Lean D | August 2, 2020 |
ABC News[31] | Lean D | July 31, 2020 |
NPR[32] | Lean D | August 3, 2020 |
NBC News[33] | Lean D | August 6, 2020 |
538[34] | Lean D | August 14, 2020 |
Polling
- Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden
Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Sample size[lower-alpha 4] |
Margin of error |
Donald Trump (R) |
Joe Biden (D) |
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ALG Research/The Nevada Independent (D)[upper-alpha 1] | Apr 27–30, 2020 | 763 (LV) | ± 3.6% | 45% | 49% | – | – |
AtlasIntel | Feb 19–21, 2020 | 1,100 (RV) | ± 3.0% | 41% | 44% | 15% | – |
Fox News | Jan 5–8, 2020 | 1,505 (RV) | ± 2.5% | 39% | 47% | 9%[lower-alpha 5] | 4% |
Fox News | Nov 10–13, 2019 | 1,506 (RV) | ± 2.5% | 40% | 47% | 9%[lower-alpha 6] | 4% |
Emerson College | Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2019 | 1,089 | ± 2.9% | 51% | 49% | – | – |
Gravis Marketing | Aug 14–16, 2019 | 926 | ± 3.2% | 43% | 49% | – | 8% |
Emerson College | Mar 28–30, 2019 | 719 | ± 3.6% | 48% | 52% | – | – |
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See also
Notes
- Vote count after votes for candidates who did not get at least 15% of the vote in that precinct are reallocated to the voter's second choice.
- County convention delegates (CCDs) are used to calculate how many pledged national convention delegates each candidate win statewide and in the state's four congressional districts.
- The number of pledged national convention delegates is determined by the number of CCDs won, however, a candidate must get at least 15% of the total vote to get any delegates. However, if a candidate wins a congressional district, they get a delegate even if they didn’t reach 15% of the vote. Each precinct has a certain number of CCDs and allocates them based on how many caucus goers there are for each candidate at that precinct.[14]
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