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The 2024 United States presidential election in Nevada is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Nevada voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Nevada has six electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat. 

A Mountain West state with a distinct libertarian streak, Nevada is considered to be a crucial swing state in 2024, although no Republican presidential nominee has won Nevada since George W. Bush’s narrow victory in 2004. Except in 2008, the wins were always in single digits for Democrats; Obama won by less than 7% in 2012 and Trump lost by less than 2.5% in both 2016 and 2020.

Incumbent Democratic president Joe Biden initially ran for reelection to a second term, but withdrew from the election on July 21, 2024. He then endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who launched her presidential campaign the same day.[4] Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has gathered enough signatures to appear on the ballot, as he announced in March. 

Despite Donald Trump—the Republican nominee—not carrying Nevada in either of his two presidential campaigns, polling in the state showed Trump in a strong position to win the state against Biden, with Trump leading Biden in all major polls on Nevada’s voting intention from October 2023 until Biden’s withdrawal in July 2024. However, Kamala Harris, from neighboring California, has polled somewhat better since becoming the Democratic nominee. The state is rated as a tossup by nearly all major news organizations. 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on August 23, 2024, that he was suspending his campaign in swing states, including Nevada. By 2022, every voter now gets a mail-in ballot unless they opt-out and eligible voters are now automatically registered after common transactions at the DMV. Although the Nevada state government established a primary system in 2021, the state Republican Party chose to boycott the primary, scheduled for February 6, in favor of a party-organized caucus, scheduled for February 8. Votes from the primary were not included in determining delegate allocation.