With supermajority at stake, fundraising battle is tight in key Nevada legislative races

Democrats and Republicans running in the most consequential Nevada legislative races continue to be neck and neck in fundraising and cash on hand as the election cycle enters its home stretch, campaign finance reports released this week show.

Across the 10 contests most likely to determine whether Democrats secure a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers, the Democratic candidate in six of those races outraised their Republican opponent from July through September. Democrats also had more cash on hand at the end of September than their GOP counterparts in six of the 10 races.

The findings — which represent the final look at a campaign’s finances before ballots are cast — continue the yearlong trend of a tight fundraising battle in the races that are key to whether Democrats win two-thirds of the seats in each chamber, which would allow them to overturn vetoes issued by Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo. Lombardo has shown himself more than willing to exercise his veto authority, rejecting a record 75 of the 611 bills that came to his desk last session and touting himself as a potent, one-man backstop to policies from the left in a state with deep structural advantages for Democrats.

Democrats have little room for error. They control 13 seats in the 21-member state Senate (one shy of the two-thirds supermajority) and 28 seats — a supermajority — in the 42-member Assembly. In the 10 races The Nevada Independent has deemed most important, based on electoral history and district partisanship, three of them are currently controlled by Republicans.



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