Decision Desk HQ has called the state of Nevada for former (and now future) President Donald Trump.
Nevada is one of the seven swing states on which all eyes were trained as votes were cast and tallied this Election Day, with its small but mighty six electoral votes on the line. It’s also one of the states where early voting seems to have favored Republicans in a big way, with Donald Trump holding a slim lead over Kamala Harris.
Here’s a recent RedState report:
As of Sunday, the GOP held a four percent lead over Democrats in the number of ballots that had been counted and posted. RealClearPolitics’ polling average has Donald Trump with a slim one percent lead over Kamala Harris, but polling conducted by Atlas Intel on November 1 and 2 showed Trump up by six percentage points.
Election Day turnout was the key to securing a victory for Donald Trump. He went into Tuesday with a cushion, but day-of voters, especially those in the rural areas of Nevada needed to storm their voting places to keep or expand that cushion.
State of play for the presidential race: No Republican presidential nominee has won Nevada since George W. Bush’s 2004 victory. Joe Biden won in 2020 with +2.39 percent, which closely matched Hillary Clinton’s +2.42 percent win back in 2016.
There was a concern that final election results out of Nevada might take a while. Here was the anticipated timeline:
Election Night | After the Secretary of State’s Office has confirmed all Nevada polls are closed and the last voter has voted, the first results will be posted on Results.NV.gov.
If you are in line by 7 p.m. [PST] , stay in line. As long as you are in line by 7 p.m. [PST], you will still be allowed to vote regardless of the polling location’s closure time.
The first results will include mail ballots received before Election Day, and early voting in-person results.
Election Day in-person results will be included in subsequent data uploads as counties tabulate and send them to the Secretary of State’s Office.
November 9 | The deadline for county election officials to accept mail ballots postmarked on or before Election Day.
November 12 | The deadline for voters to cure their ballots.
November 15 | Canvass of the general election returns by each county board of commissioners/supervisors.
November 26 | Canvass of the general election returns by the Nevada Supreme Court.
December 17 | The Electoral College meets.
One of the issues was the signature “curing” of ballots required by Nevada law. If questions arise about a signature on a ballot, election officials must contact the voter to verify their identity. This is a time-consuming process that can take days.
Additionally, there were still long lines of people waiting to vote when the polls closed in Nevada, and they could not start counting until the last vote was cast. Nevertheless, at 1:21 AM Eastern, Decision Desk was able to call the Silver State for Trump. As of this writing (with 90 percent of the vote in), Trump has bested Vice President Kamala Harris by 4.5 points in Nevada.
