
Tuesday's secretary of state primary in Nevada looms large over the 2024 election
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Republican voters in Nevada will decide Tuesday whether a vocal proponent of false fraud claims about the 2020 election will become their party's choice to oversee the 2024 elections in this presidential battleground state.
Jim Marchant, a businessman and former state assemblyman who lost a congressional bid in 2020, is among the better-known candidates seeking the GOP nomination to become Nevada secretary of state. And along with former district judge Richard Scotti, he has won an endorsement from the Nevada Republican Party, boosting his prospects in the primary.

Janet Mills and her allies are counting on a gender gap to narrow Platner’s wide lead ahead of the June 9 primary to decide who will face incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. They are betting that the unfiltered style that has brought Platner widespread attention as someone who could help Democrats reach young men will backfire with women.

As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











