NV-02: Did Nevada's 2nd congressional district just get interesting?
CD2 was an open seat when Derby (D) came within five points of Heller in 2006, too. And like this year, 2006 was also a midterm election year in which deeply unpopular policies of a second-term Republican president with horrendous approval ratings drove enthusiastic, or at least fired up, Democratic turnout. Democrats took control of both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate away from Republicans in that election.
In the 2004 presidential election prior to those 2006 midterms, Republican George W. Bush won Washoe County, the most populous county in CD2.
In the 2024 presidential election prior to this year’s midterms, Trump lost Washoe County.
The candidate filing period in Nevada is roughly a month from now. There’s something of a pattern in Republican primaries these days, where oodles of folks file, on the chance that they’ll catch not only Trump’s eye but his all-important and almost always decisive endorsement. For instance, you may recall Michele Fiore running advertisements on TV stations in Florida while briefly running for governor in 2022. And don’t be surprised if/when perennial candidate Danny Tarkanian switches from the Republican attorney general primary to the House CD 2 primary on the heels of Amodei’s surprise exit, if he hasn’t already by the time you read this.
https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/02/08/did-nevadas-2nd-congressional-district-just-get-interesting/
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