{"id":1630296,"date":"2022-09-02T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T10:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630296"},"modified":"2022-09-02T06:04:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T10:04:16","slug":"las-vegas-incumbent-democrat-scrambles-for-seat-as-blue-district-goes-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/las-vegas-incumbent-democrat-scrambles-for-seat-as-blue-district-goes-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Incumbent Democrat Scrambles for Seat as Blue District Goes Purple"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flas-vegas-incumbent-democrat-scrambles-for-seat-as-blue-district-goes-purple%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630296&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">As Floridians and New Yorkers voted in primaries on Aug. 23, House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) were in Las Vegas to boost their party\u2019s odds of winning the chamber\u2019s majority in the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The House leaders were in town to double down on the bets party voters made in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nevada\">Nevada<\/a>\u2019s June 14 primaries when Republicans nominated three challengers to take on Democrat incumbents in what analysts uniformly rate as three \u201ctossup\u201d southern Nevada congressional races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Among the GOP candidates McCarthy was stumping for was Mark Robertson, a retired U.S. Army colonel who is campaigning to unseat six-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nevada) in Nevada\u2019s Congressional District 1 (CD 1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The three Republican challengers may benefit from an inadvertent assist from Nevada\u2019s Democratic-controlled legislature\u2019s redistricting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/09\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-01-at-8.00.13-PM.png\"><\/a> Republican candidate for Nevada Congressional District 1 Mark Robertson speaks on July 28 in Las Vegas speaks with a fellow veteran, a constituency he is appealing to unseat incumbent Democrat Dina Titus (D-Nevada) in their Nov. 8 election. (Courtesy of Robertson for Congress) <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In an effort to bolster Democratic numbers, lawmakers shifted some CD 1 Democrat-dominant precincts into CD 3 and CD 4, clumping what had been a deep blue inner-Las Vegas district Titus routinely won by double-digits in with rapidly reddening suburbs to elevate Republican chances of winning the district for only the second time in 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>GOP challenger April Becker is up against\u00a0two-term incumbent Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nevada) in CD 3.\u00a0Republican challenger Sam Peters is running against two-term Rep. Steve Hosford (D-Nevada)\u00a0in CD 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With CD 1\u2019s new boundaries stretching east and south of Las Vegas and its reconfigured demographics doubling the district\u2019s number of registered Republicans to nearly 110,000, what had been a 2-to-1 Democratic voter bulge has been scaled back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Floridians and New Yorkers voted in primaries on Aug. 23, House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) were in Las Vegas to boost their party\u2019s odds of winning the chamber\u2019s majority in the midterm elections. The House leaders were in town to double down on the bets [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}