(The Center Square) – Nevada voters will head to the polls next week for their state’s Republican presidential primary, and in an unusual twist, their caucuses.
Having both a primary and caucuses is unusual and is a result of an intrastate battle over which electoral system to embrace.
The state of Nevada will hold its primary Tuesday, where only former Ambassador Nikki Haley will be on the ballot. However, after a legal battle with the state of Nevada, the Nevada Republican party will not recognize the results of that primary and instead recognize the results of the Thursday caucuses. Haley chose to stay on the primary ballot, not the caucuses ballot, leaving Trump essentially the inevitable winner of the state’s 26 delegates.
The confusion comes after the state transitioned from the caucuses system to the primary system but Nevada Republicans rejected the effort, deciding to stick with the state’s tradition of caucuses.
On the ballot or not, polling suggests it wouldn’t matter in Nevada, where former President Donald Trump holds a nearly 60-point lead, according to Real Clear Politics ‘ polling average last updated in January.