When Does a 99-1 Victory Show Weakness? When the Winner Rigged the Contest to be a 99-1 Victory.

Nevada's primary - er, caucus - taught us nothing, but provided more evidence of Trump's weakness

Nevada held two elections last week, a primary and a caucus, to help determine the Republican nominee for President. Why two? Well, it’s a long story, but I’ll try to summarize.

The state government of Nevada passed a law in 2021 that required primaries to be conducted in the party nominating process instead of caucuses. There are many reasons for this, but primaries are mostly considered a cleaner and easier way for voters to participate in an election, and there were infamous mishaps in caucuses in 2020, namely Iowa, that made people jittery about continuing with them.

The Republican Party of Nevada, however, decided they wanted caucuses instead, and moved forward with plans to conduct said caucuses and declare that all of the state’s delegates for the Republican nomination would go to the caucus winner. Awkwardly, this meant that the winner of the primary, which was still legally required to happen, would get no delegates and therefore nothing of substance.

Make sense? No? Of course not; to the average logical person, it should not. But to Donald Trump and his supporters in the GOP, it makes perfect sense. In fact, Trump wined and dined Nevada GOP officials at his Florida resort in order to persuade them to stick with a caucus versus a primary. So they fell in line and did just that. Why was this so important to Trump?