OPINION: Poetic justice for Republicans — and an opportunity for Nevada Democrats

In 2014, Nevada Democrats endured a catastrophic shellacking. They saw all six constitutional offices go red. They witnessed Republicans flip both houses of the state Legislature. They lost a Democratic congressional seat in a gigantic upset. With a popular governor, Brian Sandoval, entering his second term and Republicans with a Carson City trifecta, a GOP renaissance was at hand. The Democrats were virtually irrelevant. Twelve years later, 2026 is a mirror image of 2014, a Democratic wipeout as part of a national bluebath that is arguably even more devastating for Nevada Republicans. Democrats now hold all the statewide offices, including both U.S. senators, and all House seats (thanks to one of the greatest upsets in Nevada history in the 2nd Congressional District) in addition to an Assembly supermajority and a state Senate majority one shy of two-thirds. Just two years after the GOP turned the state red for Donald Trump and many Republicans (and Democrats!) thought Gov.

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