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The mayor of Las Vegas is a democrat, not a member of the face-eating leopards party. I'm too busy to look it up right now but I'm going to bet that the Las Vegas City and surrounding county is probably one of the most consistently Democratic parts of Nevada. Of course Canadians should still stay away. Any non-american should just not come, but this is not lamf
Now I'm curious, why would Las Vegas be inclined to vote Dem?
Idk why anyone would, except most days the only other choice is Republicans. But it's a long observed trend for cities to lean Demo.
A lot of union jobs work at the casinos. You also have a higher than average performance sector.
A huge proportion of the actual residents of Vegas and the surrounding areas are service workers, since it's a tourist hub. Because of this, service worker unions in the area have a pretty sizable influence, and they tend to endorse Democratic candidates. In the most recent election I suspect that this influence was partially offset by (1) COVID tourism revenue loss being blamed on Biden and (2) Trump's illusory promise of no tax on tips.
Las Vegas is effectively the only part of Nevada with people in it.
Reno is the other but the area is a lot of billionaire bungalows and I dunno if I’d call them “people” so it’s mostly just a big trailer park