(Michael Schaus / Nevada Independent) – Media fact checkers are going to get extremely tired of having to explain over and over why former President Donald J. Trump is not on Nevada’s mail-in primary ballot.
Last week, outrage erupted among poorly informed Trump supporters when a potential voter in rural Nevada posted a picture of her primary ballot to X, clearly confounded by his absence on the ticket.
Describing the omission of his name as “criminal” and declaring “We cannot allow this to stand,” the image quickly went viral among ardent Trump fans on social media who assumed the Nevada ballot was “proof” of election malfeasance.
Of course, there was only one problem: The reason Trump wasn’t on the ballot was because he never filed for the primary.
And the reason he never filed was because the state GOP, in all its brilliance and political savvy, is moving forward with its own separate caucus that prohibits candidates from taking part in the primary.
In other words, Nevada’s ballot is missing the bulk of top-name candidates because the GOP wanted it that way. Who could have possibly guessed such a plan would have stirred a bit of confusion and anger among “low information” voters in the Republican ranks?
Well … pretty much everyone, as it turns out.
Gov. Joe Lombardo rightly condemned the decision to move forward with the caucus in October. Some Republican members of the Assembly have also lamented the dual system facing voters this year.
In fact, pretty much everyone who wasn’t part of the party cabal trying to rig the system in favor of Trump has pointed out the pure insanity of moving forward with an unnecessary and illogical caucus just two days after the state-run primary election.
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Michael Schaus is a communications and branding expert based in Las Vegas, Nevada
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