Nevada expense Donald TrumpAccording to projections by the Associated Press.

Trump’s victory would give Nevada six electoral votes To Republicans for the first time since President George W. Bush carried it in 2004. Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris have made multiple campaign visits to the state this year. Most of Nevada’s counties are rural and voted heavily for Trump in 2020. But Democrat Joe Biden won Washoe and Clark, the two most populous counties that year; the latter includes Las Vegas and three-quarters of the state’s residents.

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Trump clinched a second term early Wednesday when Wisconsin passed him over the 270 delegate votes needed to win him, thus Nevada’s six electoral delegate votes only increased the size of his victory: He now has 301 delegate votes and has won six of seven battleground states . All that’s left is for Arizona to be called up.

Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes the stage before speaking at his campaign rally at The Expo at World Market Center in Las Vegas on September 13, 2024. (Photo: Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Trib

Economy and immigration were among the issues that voters thought about most before the presidential election.

Nevada is a very important swing state

Nevada has played a significant role in the last few elections, and this year was no different.

“One of the reasons why Nevada is so important is that there are close margins between Republicans and Democrats in statewide elections, and that depends largely on each camp’s ability to determine who comes to vote, so this is a really important mobilization game,” said the University of Nevada Las Vegas Rebecca Gill, associate professor at , told FOX Television Stations.

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Nevada has one of the nation’s best performance records as a presidential primary. The candidate who wins the state has also won the White House in 28 of the last 30 presidential elections. Votes were cast for the losing candidate only in 1908, 1976 and 2016, when Democrat Hillary Clinton carried the state. Democrats have won Nevada in the last four presidential elections.