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Las Vegas resident Sulhee Jessica Woo is known on social media for making elaborate bento boxes for her kids’ school lunches. Lately, though, she’s been posting a different kind of video.

After fighting for nearly a decade about who should oversee Nevada’s higher education institutions, state lawmakers are hoping voters will give them the power to overhaul the current system, which includes an elected board of regents, when they head to the polls in November.

Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) and former North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee have known each other for years. The two served together as Democrats in the state Senate, representing neighboring districts, for eight years. From 2009 to 2012, Horsford even served as Lee’s majority leader. Horsford went on to represent Nevada’s 4th Congressional District, anchored by North Las Vegas; Lee to serve as the majority-minority city’s mayor.

Much of the attention each presidential election cycle centers on swing states where the outcome can have an outsize impact on who wins the White House. But candidate campaigns and political analysts also zero in on smaller areas where factors like demographics and turnout can play critical roles in the race's ultimate outcome.

In general, the Latino community tends to vote Democratic, but it is not a monolithic bloc. And in these difficult economic times, more and more Latinos believe that the solution lies with Donald Trump, the Republican who managed to steal the Hispanic vote in 2020, when he narrowly lost Nevada.

In 2024, this delicate equilibrium is key to understanding the seven battleground states where, according to the polls, the presidential race is closest. Last election, several of these states were decided by fewer than 40,000 votes. Since then, together they’ve added about 1.3 million potential voters, and the smallest shifts in sentiment or turnout among certain groups could be enough to alter the outcome of this election.

It’s no secret that the political sentiments of Americans follow lines of race and ethnicity, education and age. But what makes presidential elections so competitive is how these demographic groups often balance each other out.

Much of the attention each presidential election cycle centers on swing states where the outcome can have an outsize impact on who wins the White House. But candidate campaigns and political analysts also zero in on smaller areas where factors like demographics and turnout can play critical roles in the race's ultimate outcome.