Nevada, a swing state, bucked the trend in 2016. That was when Nevada chose Hillary Clinton for president, when Democrats flipped the state legislature from red to blue and when the state delivered the first Latina senator to Washington D.C.
This year, the Democrats in the state hope to build on those gains. Here, Steve Sisolak, the Democratic nominee, is in a tight race with Republican state Attorney General, Adam Laxalt for governor. If Sisolak can squeak out a win, he will be the first Democrat elected governor in the state in two decades.
And his race is one of many state races Democrats are doubling down on in hopes that they can chip away at Republicans who control more than half of the country's state legislative chambers and about two-thirds of the governorships.
The chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, calls Nevada "the model."
