* Donald Trump sat down for an extensive interview with Megan Barth of the Nevada Globe when he was in town last weekend. Which made liberal blubber-blogger Jon Ralston’s head explode.
* In the interview, Barth asked the former president about losing the controversial 2020 election. To which Trump responded: “I think I won the last time. I think I won both times by a lot. This is a state that is disgraceful.”
* Ralston and his ilk immediately began taking the quote out of context; claiming Trump called Nevada disgraceful when he was actually referring to his opinion about how the 2020 election was carried out.
* And the fact that then-Gov. Sisolak and the Democrat majority in the Legislature changed the rules in the middle of the game – extending automatic mail-in balloting to the general election during a special session just 90 days before the election - was, indeed, disgraceful.
* That said, it’s also true that Trump’s claims regarding his lawsuit seeking to overturn the election results are not accurate. He said…
“You know, we sued on the basis of …they robbed the vote at a level. We had a lawsuit that was so good and the judge didn’t want to see it. He didn’t even want to see it.”
* Not true. I watched the court hearing. Trump’s lawyer was not prepared and blew it. They never presented any verified or documented evidence of fraud. They simply introduced suspicions without back-up.
* In fact, to this day, Chairman Michael McDonald and the Nevada Republican Party – which alleged it had some 120,000 pieces of “evidence” proving massive voting fraud – has never released those supposed 120,000 pieces of evidence to the public or the media so it could be independently checked.
* Why do they continue hiding this “evidence”?
* Every organization or business needs a slogan. Like FedEx: “When it absolutely, positively, has to be there overnight.” Or Dominoes Pizza: “Made-to-order hot pizza delivered in 30 minutes or less – guaranteed.”
* I think I’ve got one for the Nevada Republican Party: “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullsh*t.”
* It certainly would explain why Nevada GOP “shadow” Chairman Sigal Chattah sued to block the party’s presidential nominee next year from being chosen by ALL Nevada Republicans in a primary rather than a handful of Republicans attending a party “caucus” that will favor Trump?
* And as an historical reminder, even though there were GOP candidates running against Trump in 2020, the Nevada GOP refused to hold a presidential caucus that year and simply anointed Trump as the nominee.
* And here’s a question: If you have to show up in person on caucus day to vote, how do out-of-state college students and military personnel stationed overseas get to vote? It doesn’t appear they’ll be allowed to.
* And what about elderly voters – especially those in assisted living facilities – who can’t physically attend a caucus in person?
* Did the GOP executive board and Central Committee even know about this decision by Chairman McDonald and shadow Chair Chattah and did they approve it? Inquiring minds wanna know.
* Anyway, Chattah lost her lawsuit last week. Par for the course. So the primary will go on. But the party will also hold a separate caucus.
* And the prez candidate who wins the caucus will get Nevada’s delegates to the National Convention, not necessarily the winner of the primary, unless a candidate wins both.
* If, say, Trump wins the private caucus and DeSantis wins the public primary – Trump will get Nevada’s delegates.
* Translation: Dear Nevada Republicans: Pound sand. Love, Sigal.
* I’m starting to think she’s a Democrat plant.
* Chattah, with a straight face I’m assuming, decided to try to justify cutting out the vast majority of Nevada Republicans by holding a caucus and ignoring the results of the primary by telling the Las Vegas Review-Journal…
“It more belongs to the people. It’s truly the will of the people.”
* How can it be the “will of the people” if the vast majority of the people – including students, the elderly, and military personnel - are cut out of the process?
* What a PR disaster. If shooting yourself in the foot was an Olympic event, the Nevada GOP would be gold medal winners.
* Look, whether you like Trump or not, the fact is today’s Nevada Republican Party doesn’t represent Nevada Republicans. It represents Donald Trump. And that’d be fine if the party’s Central Committee had voted to officially endorse Trump.
* But it hasn’t. So this is wrong. It’s too big of a decision to be made by two people.
* In other news…
* Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo “has withdrawn Nevada from the U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition of more than two dozen governors committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”
* Our guv is the only guv elected or re-elected last year to withdraw from this global warming cult that ex-Gov. Sisolak signed us up for. Ah, the difference a Republican governor makes.
* Rumor Quashed: State Controller Andy Matthews’ wife is NOT running for Assembly District 37 next year. The GOP candidate everyone should be rallying behind in that race – a CRUCIAL pick-up opportunity – is David Brog.
* Who, by the way, officially announced his candidacy yesterday.