Why Is Sandoval Allowing NV GOP To Risk Nevadas Early Vote Status?

Las Vegas, NV – Only days after the disaster that was Governor Brian Sandoval’s Nevada GOP caucuses - a small snapshot of which you can see here, here, here, and here – reports are surfacing of Nevada potentially losing its early state status on the Presidential nominating calendar because of the Nevada Republicans’ incompetence.

 

So why isn’t Governor Sandoval saddling up on that white horse of his to defend Nevada’s honor?

 

The fact is that last weekend’s caucuses weren’t just humiliating for Sandoval and Nevada Republicans because of their apparent inability to – umm – count. 

 

The problem is much deeper.  At a time when their political party’s turnout operation is critically important (note the new PPP poll out today that shows Republican enthusiasm is way down), Sandoval’s operation was only able to turn out 10,000 FEWER voters this year than four years ago.  That’s not the kind of operation that inspires the RNC to grant an early vote status once again.

 

But instead of leaping to the rescue, Sandoval is just standing there as members of his own party are now suggesting Nevada taxpayers bail out the NV GOP and risk Nevada’s early state status by moving to a taxpayer funded primary.  

 

But what else is new?  Last year, Sandoval’s party freely gave up its early status by caving to Washington Republicans and New Hampshire by moving their caucus date to after Florida’s unsanctioned primary, even after Senator Harry Reid tried to give them some backbone.

 

So the question:  why does Senator Harry Reid seem to care more about the Nevada Republicans’ early vote status than the leader of the Nevada Republican Party, Governor Sandoval?