LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – The news of President Joe Biden not seeking another term this close to re-election is being met differently.
Nevada has historically of being a swing state and now that VP Kamala Harris is looking to step in, this could change directions for voters, especially women who are left undecided.
With more than 100 days left until America decides who will be the next president, this campaign shake up may offer some different perspective for those left undecided between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump here in Nevada.
“This is going to be one of those watershed moments,” Sondra Cosgrove, the executive director of Vote Nevada.
As an advocate for voter education, Cosgrove said this could being in more voters to the polls, especially women.
“It possibly could if she speaks to them,” Cosgrove said. “She is going to have to get out and send a message to the voters who have been sitting on the sidelines and say I see you.”
FOX5 asked Cosgrove, for those who were undecided all this time, what this will mean for voters who were planning to sit this election out.
“In the past, we had people who were voting for one or the other or undecided. That was the group that said, ‘I’m going to vote, I just haven’t decided yet,’ and then there were really strong, ‘I don’t want to vote. I don’t like the two candidates.’ That’s the group I’m worried about because what they were being offered is not something they saw themselves voting for, that could have just changed,” she said.
It is change that could now be steered to the hundreds of thousands of voters who have yet to decide who their pick is.
“When you look at how voter registration breaks down in this state our largest group of voters are independent or nonpartisan, a lot of those voters are women ,” she said.
Recent date from the Nevada Secretary of State showed there are 86,677 registered Independent party voters, and 668,000 nonpartisan voters.
FOX5 also dug into the numbers which showed how much of a swing state Nevada is, data showed there are 602,917 democrats and 570,283 republicans which is why those undecided votes could make a huge difference in the November elections.
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