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Chasing the Vote: Nevada’s ‘None of the Above’ Voters

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

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4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Nevada has more non-partisan voters than either Republicans or Democrats, and many were dreading a rematch between President Biden and former President Donald Trump. Polls showed double-digit support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before he dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump, and before Kamala Harris replaced Biden atop the Democratic ticket. WSJ political reporter Jimmy Vielkind travels to the battleground state to find out how voters responded to the candidates’ shifts going into November. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.0

And we've got people milling around food trucks,

0:37.0

buying organic strawberries and peaches,

0:41.0

some nice ice coffees, and a lot of kids and dogs running around.

0:48.3

It was also as good a place as any to talk to voters in Reno, the second largest city in Nevada.

0:54.2

When I first went in June, it was easy to find people who were

0:58.2

far from excited about the rematch between President Joe Biden

1:02.2

and former President Donald Trump.

1:04.8

It'd be nice that there was a nonpartisan candidate.

1:09.1

Like there's got to be someone out there that would have the support of a lot of people. It just seems like no

1:14.6

one is up to the challenge or something. I don't know. I'm over it. It's like old news.

1:20.7

That was Mike Short, Katie Payne, and Alex Maham, all Reno residents who, like many Americans,

1:27.0

have long viewed voting this fall as like picking from an undesirable menu,

1:31.0

perhaps especially when Biden was still on the ticket. I went back to Reno in

1:35.6

September after Vice President Kamala Harris had replaced Biden as the Democratic

1:39.8

nominee to run against Trump. I wanted to know, since the choice between the major party

1:44.7

candidates had changed, are people still feeling me about their options? Is there

1:50.0

still a big appetite in Nevada for third party candidates?

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