In The News: Department of Political Science
An ad supporting former U.S. Army Capt. Sam Brown’s Senate campaign in Nevada proclaims the Republican will “finish President Trump’s wall, destroy the cartels and stop the invasion of the border.” Brown, the leader among GOP primary candidates seeking to unseat Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, makes no bones about his love for Trump.
The language sounds like something from an authoritarian state or the US anti-communist purges of the 1950s, but Donald Trump is increasingly focused on one target: "the enemy within."
In a May poll of voters in swing states, the New York Times / Siena College had two seemingly contradictory findings for the state of Nevada. Republican former President Donald Trump led President Joe Biden, a Democrat, by 12 points in a head-to-head matchup. Yet the poll also showed Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) maintained a 2 percentage point lead on her likely Republican challenger Sam Brown.
Las Vegas locals are sharing their thoughts on a New York jury finding former President Donald Trump guilty on all charges in his hush money trial Thursday. News 3 went to the Las Vegas Strip, not far from the Trump International Hotel, to get people's reactions.
UNLV political science professor, Rebecca Gill, talks about Trump guilty verdict.
As presidential candidates and state legislators campaign over the future of abortion in America, elections for the third branch of government have largely escaped scrutiny on the issue. Until now.
Political mail pieces that have arrived in North Las Vegas residents’ mailboxes attack state Sen. Dina Neal (D-North Las Vegas) as “‘Dirty Deal’ Neal,” alleging she has been “soft-on-crime for decades [and] has tried to destroy our police department and community.”
Taiwan’s opposition-controlled parliament has passed a set of legal amendments granting lawmakers greater investigative power to scrutinize the government under President Lai Ching-te, who took office on May 20.
Protests are expected to resume in Taiwan on Friday over a divisive bill that would greatly expand the investigative powers of parliament and has already drawn tens of thousands of people onto the streets. Protesters gathered outside the legislature on Tuesday to coincide with the first reading of the bill, which legislators took up again on Friday for the second reading.
On the night of May 21, tens of thousands of Taiwanese people, including many college and senior high school students, demonstrated in the rain outside the Legislative Yuan, the parliament of Taiwan. They were opposing a new package of bills that would expand legislative power, proposed by the Kuomintang (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), the two main opposition parties that together hold a majority in the Legislative Yuan.
The United States will be a country of minorities in the near future. It’s expected that, by 2060, non-Hispanic whites will make up slightly less than half of the population. It’s a reality drawn up by statistics, and it’s also the worst nightmare of Donald Trump, who dreams of “making America great again” by expelling millions of immigrants from the country. However, to achieve this, the Republican would have to win the presidential elections in November, and to do that, he needs the support of millions of Latinos.
Angling to tap into strong support for the sweeping health law he helped pass 14 years ago, one of President Joe Biden's latest reelection strategies is to remind voters that former President Donald Trump tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act.