Nevada GOP Boycotting State-Run Primary For Party-Run Caucus That Critics Say Favors Trump

Trump, Ramaswamy, Elder campaigns sign onto Feb. 8 party caucus, which has drawn criticism from the DeSantis campaign as ‘rigged’ to favor the former president.

Nye County residents wait to vote in Pahrump, Nev., on a Nov. 8, 2022, ballot that included Question 2, a proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage that was adopted with 55 percent of the vote statewide but rejected by 56 percent of voters in Nye County. Ronda Churchill/AFP via Getty Images

Nevada will stage the nation’s third and fourth 2024 Republican intra-party presidential contests—first, a state-run primary and then, a party-run caucus—both within the span of three days in February.

Thus far, with the Oct. 16 filing deadline, Reno resident Heath Fulkerson and Texan John Castro—who is suing to remove former President Donald Trump from several state ballots, including Nevada’s—are the only two candidates registered to run in the Feb. 6, 2024, GOP presidential primary.