What Happens in Vegas Won't Stay in Vegas (with Jon Ralston)
The Focus Group Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Nevada's economy was hit especially hard by COVID. Now, the Democratic governor and senator are paying the price in their re-election campaigns...or are they? The dean of the Nevada press corps, Jon Ralston, joins Sarah to talk about a Nevada focus group...and whether voters in the Secretary of State race are playing Russian roulette with American democracy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast I I'm Sarah Longwell, publisher of the |
| 0:14.4 | bull work and this week we're talking about Nevada, a state that has taken more |
| 0:20.2 | money out of me over the years than I would like to admit. |
| 0:23.2 | Nevada is a state where Democrats have done well in recent cycles, though it is not unheard |
| 0:27.3 | of for the state to elect a Republican. |
| 0:29.9 | Republican Dean Heller was elected to the Senate in 2012 and |
| 0:33.0 | moderate Brian Sandoval was elected governor in 2010 and then |
| 0:36.4 | reelected in 2014. |
| 0:38.6 | Biden, he won Nevada by about two and a half points in 2020, but with the Democrats slide with |
| 0:44.2 | Hispanics and COVID hitting the hospitality-based economy especially hard, |
| 0:48.2 | Republicans think that they have a great shot at winning both the governor's |
| 0:51.9 | race as well as flipping a |
| 0:53.6 | Senate seat. Now I wanted to explore a burgeoning polling anomaly in which Joe |
| 0:58.3 | Biden's low poll numbers don't seem to be dragging down individual |
| 1:01.9 | Democratic candidates. |
| 1:03.8 | That's unusual. |
| 1:05.0 | So this week we talked to Dems and left-leaning independents |
| 1:08.8 | who are frustrated with Biden and the Democrats |
| 1:11.8 | and describe themselves as open to voting for Republicans. |
| 1:15.0 | Now if Republicans are going to flip the state, these are the voters they need to win over. |
| 1:20.0 | My guest today is the Dean of the Nevada Press Corps, John Ralston, CEO of the news site, the Nevada Independent. |
| 1:26.6 | John, thanks for being here. |
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