On Saturday, March 6, the Nevada Democrat Party officially elected a self-described socialist, Judith Whitmer and her entire socialist slate to lead their party. This isn’t just a local story. Democrats view Nevada as a national bellwether, especially since the party rearranged its presidential-selection process to put the Silver State near the front of the line in 2024.
That gambit was orchestrated by former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who retired in 2017 after more than three decades in Washington. His fellow Democrats may rue the day they went along with it. In the four years since leaving office, Reid has maintained control over the state party apparatus and operations, which many have called “the Reid Machine.” Through his hand-picked loyalists, Reid oversaw the party’s operations and funding and ensured that public, intra-party squabbles and expensive, contested primaries would be quashed.
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The 2016 Nevada Democratic convention ended in chaos. Bernie Sanders state delegates, who’d tried to out-organize Hillary Clinton delegates to eke out a few more spots to the national convention, felt the party establishment had rigged the process against them, just as they felt the party establishment had rigged things during the caucuses a few months earlier. “he state party chair received death threats, and the convention had to be wrapped up abruptly because things had gotten so out of control. Democratic Party officials worried about whether this would be a prelude to a messy Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia later that summer. Itwas.
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