Trump projected to win Nevada, DDHQ projects on The Hill
Nov 06, 2024
(NEXSTAR) – Former President Donald Trump will win Nevada – and its six electoral votes – in the 2024 presidential election, Decision Desk HQ projects on The Hill.
The call came after 12:30 a.m. Pacific Time, after Trump had already been projected to win the 270 Electoral College votes necessary to return to the White House.
With Nevada as one of the few swing states up for grabs in this election, those six electoral votes were seen as crucial. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump – and their surrogates – campaigned heavily in the state.
The choice for president wasn’t the only high-profile race on the Nevada ballot in 2024. Voters are also deciding ballot measures that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, require voters to show photo identification in order to vote and adopt a nonpartisan, ranked-choice voting system in future elections.
There’s also the heated race for a seat in the closely divided U.S. Senate. Democratic incumbent Jacky Rosen seeks is seeking a second term against Republican Sam Brown, a retired Army captain who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP nomination for the state’s other U.S. Senate seat in 2022.
The final word on Nevada’s many competitive races was expected to drag on given the way the state conducts elections. All registered voters receive a mail-in ballot automatically. While they still have the choice to vote in person, mailing in ballots has proved popular. In the 2022 midterm elections, 80% of voters cast their ballots in-person before Election Day or by mail.
As long as ballots are postmarked by Election Day and received four days after, they will be counted.
Nevada has one of the nation’s best track records as a presidential bellwether. The candidate who won the state has gone on to win the White House in 27 of the last 30 presidential elections. It voted for the losing candidate only in 1908, 1976 and 2016, when Democrat Hillary Clinton carried the state. Democrats have won Nevada in the last four presidential elections.
In 2020, President Joe Biden carried the state with 50% of the vote to Trump’s 48%.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.