Why Nevada Is Sleep Walking Toward Election Week
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Justin Robert Young
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🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Justin looks at the history that brought us to a week which has two election days in the GOP Primary Calendar and yet not involvement from either campaign.
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| 0:00.0 | This is made possible by |
| 0:03.0 | Oh them Bones, Daily Tech News Show, V and Craig. It's cold in Nevada right now. |
| 0:35.0 | The desert air has a chill. |
| 0:40.0 | The Las Vegas Strip is on its best behavior. |
| 0:43.6 | For the first time ever, the Super Bowl is about to descend onto the hospitality capital of the world. |
| 0:50.1 | The Luxor Pyramid is transformed into a Dorito. |
| 0:55.0 | But something else is happening before the big game. |
| 0:58.0 | Something that's the focus of the world. |
| 1:17.7 | On Tuesday, the silver state... of the nominee for president. At twist of fate, that contest will have no bearing whatsoever on who will be the GOP nominee. |
| 1:20.1 | That will take place on Thursday during a caucus. |
| 1:25.0 | Two for one, usually good odds in a gambling town. |
| 1:30.0 | This obviously is a highly unusual situation, a novel one. |
| 1:37.4 | Amidst another national spectacle, while the greatest political showman of his era and an underdog desperate for momentum battle. |
| 1:48.0 | And yet, for either contest, there's no visible way to tell that they're even happening. |
| 1:56.7 | No yard signs, no truck flags, no commercials, |
| 2:05.0 | no campaign events. It's just a sleepwalk to election day. Day. So a real quick note on how we got here. |
| 2:20.0 | The Nevada Republican Party announced in August of 2023 that they would boycott the state organized primary scheduled for February 6th, |
| 2:29.0 | and instead they would hold their own caucus on February 8th. |
| 2:35.0 | Of course that is the difference between a primary and a caucus. |
| 2:38.2 | A primary is run by the state. |
| 2:42.0 | A caucus is run by the state. A caucus is run by the party. |
| 2:45.8 | Ultimately though, the party has to agree |
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