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Reports of Vegas' death are greatly exaggerated.
While the middle class cuts back on extras, wealthy tourists keep showing up. The share of visitors from families making over $150k recently doubled.
The pattern echoes what's happening across the US:
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The crowd for here has grown to probably ~200-250.
There's a mariachi band playing while we await @AOC and @StevenHorsford.
“We have a great American in @AOC coming out,” says
@AaronDFordNV as he hypes up the crowd. “She’s a great fighter for the working class.”
Today, @AOC is stopping in North Las Vegas, where she's campaigning with @StevenHorsford and @AaronDFordNV.
I’d guess there are ~150 people here.
I loved having the chance to interview four potential presidential candidates with Nevada Independent CEO @RalstonReports at #IndyFest2026 this week.
Thank you to @AndyBeshearKY, @RoKhanna, @CaptMarkKelly and @RahmEmanuel for taking the time.
Much more 2028 politics to come...
Marty O'Donnell contributed an additional $500k to his campaign on Thursday, bringing his total investment in the #NV03 race to $4M.
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Another interesting tidbit from the latest round of campaign finance reports — Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC, the clean energy group behind the $2M anti-Flippo investment in #NV02, got a $1M donation early this month from Michael Bloomberg.
New — @DavidFlippoNV's campaign tells me it's putting five figures behind this digital ad with Texas Rep. @realBrandonGill.
It features the House Freedom Caucus member calling TBT "one of the most radical Democratic candidates in the country right now."
New — Nevada's congressional candidates yesterday filed fundraising reports covering the first half of October. Here's what they reported:
2. @MartyTheElder invested $250k early this month and another $250k last week, bringing his additional October investment to $500k.
Comes as @Oona_Milliken reported Speaker Johnson told him there's more money coming.
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3. @StevenHorsford spent a lot of money, even as most forecasters think his re-election will not be close.
His biggest expenditures were a 75k donation to the state Dems and a six-figure investment in online ads. More on his digital message:
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Mini Racker retweeted
NEW: Marty O'Donnell, candidate for #NV03, says he was told by Speaker Mike Johnson that there was "more money" coming after a PAC linked to Trump pulled $2 million in reserved ad spending from his race thenevadaindependent.com/art…
New this morning — The Cook Political Report moves #NV02 towards Democrats again, from Likely Republican to Lean Republican.
It's CPR's second shift of that race in less than a month.
From @ercovey:
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New & exclusive: Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC, the group that already put $1.5M into defeating Flippo in #NV02 is upping its spend to $2M.
The clean energy super PAC is also running a new ad attacking the Republican.
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Former Gov. Jim Gibbons (R) makes a rare political statement today to support @DavidFlippoNV, blaming Amodei for "handing a Democrat her best chance in the history of this seat because he did not get his way."
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"I ain't looking in that mirror having voted for the Republican," @AmodeiForNevada said on CNN this evening about his #NV02 vote.
At #IndyFest today, @RahmEmanuel told me it was Amodei's criticisms of Flippo that first drew his attention to #NV02 as a pick-up opportunity.
Could see Khanna getting almost emotional as he talked about the lack of substantive policy discussion around 2028:
Khanna tells @MiniRacker that IF he runs for president, "I'm not going to be the most charismatic guy. I'm not going to be the person doing the most fun TikToks."
But, he says, "I actually really have an economic vision for what this country needs to do."
New—on the DGA’s investment decision in Texas:
Beshear defends how @DemGovs (which he chairs) is spending money after @MiniRacker asks about $$$ for Gina Hinojosa's bid for TX Gov.
"We have the best looking map that we have had in our recent history, and what it means is we have a size 10 budget and a size 16 map," he says.
New: @DavidFlippoNV's campaign finance report for the first two week's of October, filed a few minutes ago, shows him raising $72k in that period.
His donors include Jonathan Kraft, president of the New England Patriots.