Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times,
President-elect Donald Trump has flipped Nevada, nearly three days after he was declared winner of the 2024 race to the White House.
The race was called at 9:15 p.m. PT on Nov. 8. Trump has now won six of the seven swing states and appears poised to capture them all.
He is leading in Arizona, the final battleground that has not yet been called.
With this win, Trump becomes the first Republican to win the Silver State since 2004.
He lost the 2016 race here to Hillary Clinton by 2.42 percentage points and the 2020 contest to candidate Joe Biden by 2.4 points.
Republicans had reason to believe Trump’s third time would be the charm after posting a robust in-person early vote lead and registration gains since 2020.
While Harris has consistently, but narrowly, led in Nevada polls since succeeding Biden as the Democrat’s nominee in July, two of four late surveys showed Trump suddenly surging as a clear favorite.
An Atlas Intel Nov. 1–2 survey of 782 likely voters had Trump leading by 5.5 percentage points and a Susquehanna Oct. 28–31 poll of 400 likely voters had Trump up by a breakaway 6 percentage points.
Meanwhile, a NY Times/Siena Oct. 24 to Nov. 2 survey of 1,010 likely voters had Harris up 2-to-3 percentage points and an Emerson Oct. 29 to Oct. 31 poll of 700 likely voters put her up by 1 percent.
Many media outlets had declared Trump the winner of the battleground state’s six Electoral College votes for days before the AP formally finally did so.
AP called the race with 96 percent of statewide ballots counted. Trump had 724,498 votes, 50.7 percent, to Harris’s 678,399 votes, or 47.4 percent.
He led by 3.3 percent, or by 46,099 votes.
There had been as many as 13,000 mail-in ballots, including more than 11,000 from Clark County, flagged for discrepancies, primarily mismatched signatures. Elections offices had been frantically scrambling to contact affected voters to “cure” or verify those votes by Nov. 9.
Trump was not only winning Washoe County – which includes Reno and is Nevada’s second-largest voting constituency – by about 1,600 votes but had garnered more than 478,000 votes in Clark County, where 71 percent of the state’s 3.2 million residents and 2.03 million active voters live, and where Democrats need to run up big numbers to win statewide races.
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That doesn’t appear to have happened in 2024. While Harris was leading in Clark County with 504,828 votes late afternoon Nov. 8, that was only 26,000 more than what Trump had received in the blue county, significantly below the threshold needed to overcome GOP votes across the state.
Interestingly, in both these cases – Arizona and Nevada – the incumbent Democrat Senators are leading despite President Trump’s lead in the presidential race:
Jacky Rosen (D) has been declared the winner over Veteran Sam Brown. Rosen got around the same number of votes as Kamala…
But, In Arizona, Kari Lake (R) is holding it close still. BUT notice that the Dem senator has received far more votes than Kamala did…
Lake and campaign officials have been expressing confidence that Lake, who lost the 2022 gubernatorial election, will ultimately win the Arizona Senate race. They’ve been urging people to cure ballots, meaning fix mistakes on ballots so their votes are counted.
Under Arizona law, voters have five days after Election Day to fix issues with their ballots.
“There are lawyers and trained observers monitoring tabulation of ballots, duplicating, and adjudication until we are done. I’m in constant touch with Kari’s lawyers and supporters about this and we are watching every ballot drop,” Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who leads an election integrity team for state and national Republicans, said on the social media platform X.
As of the current projections, Republicans will have 53 Senate seats in the next Congress, compared to 45 for Democrats or nominal independents who caucus with the Democrats.
Tyler Durden
Sat, 11/09/2024 – 14:00
