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’s odds of winning the chamber’s majority in the midterm elections.
The House leaders were in town to double down on the bets party voters made in Nevada’s June 14 primaries when Republicans nominated three challengers to take on Democrat incumbents in what analysts uniformly rate as three “tossup” southern Nevada congressional races.
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’s Congressional District 1 (CD 1).
The three Republican challengers may benefit from an inadvertent assist from Nevada’s Democratic-controlled legislature’s redistricting.
