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Presidential primary (non-binding)
February 6, 2024
No Republican National Convention delegates
Candidate Nikki Haley None of These Candidates Home state South Carolina – Popular vote 24,583 50,763 Percentage 30.63% 63.26%
Results by county None of These Candidates   50 – 60%   60 – 70%   70 – 80%   80 – 90%
Presidential caucuses
February 8, 2024
26 Republican National Convention delegates
Candidate Donald Trump Ryan Binkley Home state Florida Texas Delegate count 26 0 Popular vote 59,982 536 Percentage 99.11% 0.89%
Trump   >90%

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The 2024 Nevada Republican presidential primary and caucus were held on February 6 and 8, 2024, respectively, as part of the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 26 delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention were allocated on a proportional basis in the caucus. They were held following the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.

On August 14, 2023, Republicans in Nevada announced that they would boycott and ignore the non-binding, state-organized primary following a controversy over the selection of a primary process over the traditional caucus format in the state's presidential preference contests. The state-run primary was held on February 6, while the Nevada Republican Party held its own caucus on February 8.

Nikki Haley lost the popular vote in the non-binding Nevada primary to None of These Candidates. Although None of These Candidates received more votes, Haley was the official winner of the primary. Trump won the party-organized caucus.

Background

Controversy

The Democratic-controlled Nevada Legislature, supported by former senator Harry Reid, moved to establish a presidential primary in 2021 for the Republican and Democratic parties, following the "havoc" of the 2020 Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses. Previously, party-organized caucuses were used to determine delegates in presidential elections. In May 2023, the Republican Party sued the state of Nevada, because they preferred to keep using the caucuses to determine their delegate allocation.

The Republican primary required more than one Republican candidate to file by October 16, 2023. Nevada Republicans have said that they will instead hold a party-organized caucus on February 8, 2024. To participate in the caucus, Republican candidates needed to register their candidacy with the Nevada Republican Party in a filing window from September 1, 2023, to October 15, 2023.

Additionally, Haley, the only remaining major candidate on the primary ballot by the time of the election, refused to spend funds or campaign in the Nevada primaries due to not being allowed to enter the caucuses. This led to early speculation "None of the Above" would win the primaries instead.

Procedure

Delegates are proportionally allocated to candidates who receive at least 3.85% of the votes in the caucus on February 8, 2024. Votes in the primary on February 6, 2024, will not be included in determining delegate allocation.

Candidates

The filing deadline for the Nevada primary was on October 16, 2023. The office of the Secretary of State of Nevada published the list of qualified candidates on October 20. The filing window for the Nevada caucus was between September 1 and October 15. The party published their own list of candidates and did not allow those who filed for the state-run primary to participate.

The state of Nevada, per a law enacted in 1975, will also allow voters in the primary to cast a vote for "None of these Candidates." Local news outlets in Nevada reported that it was plausible that Nikki Haley could face a competitive race against "None of these candidates" because Nevada voters, including those who wished to support Trump in the caucus but couldn't vote for him in the primary, were allowed to participate in both the primary and the caucus.

Primary candidates

• John Anthony Castro
• Heath V. Fulkerson
• Nikki Haley
• Donald Kjornes
• Mike Pence (withdrawn)
• Tim Scott (withdrawn)
• Hirsh V. Singh (withdrawn)
• None of these Candidates

Caucus candidates

• Ryan Binkley
• Donald Trump

Campaign

In March 2023, it was reported that Trump hosted a range of Nevada Republican Party officials at Mar-a-Lago as part of his campaign's "aggressive outreach to state and local party officials in the early primary states."

The two contests have led to some confusion among voters, where they have questioned why Trump is not listed on the primary ballot, with thousands of them calling in to request clarification.

Endorsements

Primary

Statewide executive officials

• Joe Lombardo, Governor of Nevada (2023–present)
• Stavros Anthony, Lieutenant Governor of Nevada (2023–present)

Caucus

Former federal executive official

• Nick Trutanich, U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada (2019–2021)

Former U.S. Representative

• Cresent Hardy, NV-04 (2015–2017)

Former state executive officials

• Adam Laxalt, Attorney General (2015–2019); Republican nominee for U.S. Senator in 2022 and Governor in 2018 (previously endorsed Donald Trump)
• Andy Matthews, Controller (2023–present)
• Patty Cafferata, State Treasurer (1983–1987)

State senators

• Carrie A. Buck, District 5 (2020–present); Assistant Minority Leader (2023–present)
• Jeff Stone, District 20 (2022–present); Western Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Labor (2019–2021); California State Senator from District 28 (2014–2019)
• Keith Pickard, District 20 (2018–2022); Nevada State Assemblyman from District 22 (2016–2018)

State representatives

• Danielle Gallant, District 23 (2022–present); Assistant Minority Floor Leader (South) (2023–present)
• Jill Dickman, District 31 (2014–2016 and 2020–present); Assistant Minority Floor Leader (North) (2023–present); Assistant Majority Whip (North) (2015–2017)
• Edwin Goedhart, District 36 (2006–2012)
• Jim Wheeler, District 39 (2012–2022); Minority Leader (2017–2019)
• Kelly Kite, District 39 (2010–2012)

Notable individuals

• Robert Bigelow, owner of Budget Suites of America and founder of Bigelow Aerospace
• Chuck Muth, political consultant; former executive director of the Nevada Republican Party

Former federal official

• Steven Cheung, Special Assistant to the President (2017–2018)

Statewide executive officials

• Joe Lombardo, governor (2023–present)
• Stavros Anthony, lieutenant governor (2023–present)

Former state executive official

• Adam Laxalt, Attorney General (2015–2019) (switched endorsement to Ron DeSantis)

Former state representative

• Jim Marchant, District 37 (2016–2018); Republican nominee in the 2022 Nevada Secretary of State election

County official

• Michele Fiore, Nye County Justice of the Peace (2022–present)

Notable individual

• Wayne Allyn Root, TV and radio host

Polling

Results

Primary

Caucus

See also

• 2024 Nevada Democratic presidential primary
• 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries
• 2024 United States presidential election
• 2024 United States presidential election in Nevada
• 2024 United States elections

Notes

1. Despite receiving fewer votes than None of These Candidates, Haley officially won the primary. Under Nevada state law, "only votes cast for the named candidates shall be counted” for the purposes of declaring the winner of an election.
2. Chris Christie, Doug Burgum, Ron DeSantis, and Vivek Ramaswamy were originally on the ballot, but have been removed since they all suspended their campaigns.
3. Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined.
4. Ron DeSantis 10.5%
   Vivek Ramaswamy 5.0%
   Chris Christie 3.0%
5. Key:
   A – all adults
   RV – registered voters
   LV – likely voters
   V – unclear
6. Ryan Binkley with 0%
7. "Someone else" with 2%; Doug Burgum & Larry Elder with 1%; Will Hurd & Perry Johnson with 0%
8. Other, undecided, and refused
9. Chris Sununu with 0%
10. Ted Cruz with 5%; Mike Pompeo and Marco Rubio with 1%; Larry Hogan with 0%
11. If a candidate wins all of Nevada's delegates, the NRP chair is automatically unbound. He has pledged his support to Trump.

Partisan clients

1. Poll sponsored by Trump's campaign
2. ^ Poll sponsored by American Greatness PAC

References

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