Politico: “Republicans have been feuding for months in Nevada’s largest county after a pro-Donald Trump insurgency with ties to far-right activists threw the party into chaos. Now the turmoil is spreading across the battleground state, consuming the GOP in a bonfire of lawsuits, counterclaims and resignations. The meltdown – the latest iteration of the hostilities that have wracked the party nationally in the post-Trump era – could prove especially damaging if the fissures linger into next year. Trump lost to Joe Biden in Nevada by just more than 2 percentage points, and Republicans have a chance of knocking off Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Gov. Steve Sisolak in 2022. National GOP groups are pouring money into those races – but the dysfunction within the state’s Republican Party is threatening to undermine those efforts.”

“In recent days, Republicans tied to a pre-existing leadership group in Las Vegas’ Clark County filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the state party from electing officers at its fall meeting on Saturday in Northern Nevada. On Thursday, a judge in Nevada denied their request, dismissing the case. And that same day, the state party chair, Michael McDonald, pledged in an interview to counter-sue. Meanwhile, several GOP officials in Washoe County – the state’s second-most populous county and a traditional bellwether – resigned from their posts earlier this week amid an uprising from pro-Trump activists within their ranks. In Carson City, former state Controller Ron Knecht resigned from his leadership position in his local Republican club and from the state party’s central committee, which he torched as ‘dysfunctional’ on his way out. ‘Oh my God,’ said Amy Tarkanian, a former chair of the state Republican Party. ‘It’s really, really embarrassing, just as a whole.'”