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When your party meeting ends with at least eight police cars and a K-9 unit rolling in to disperse an angry crowd, you know things have gone seriously wrong with the organization.
'Really embarrassing': GOP erupts into swing state civil war
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.
Two parties are claiming to represent the GOP in Clark County — one controlling the local party’s website, the other recognized by the state party.
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.
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The animosity between Silberkraus’ Clark County faction and the state party chair erupted earlier this year, after the Republican Party’s state central committee voted to censure Nevada’s Republican secretary of state, Barbara Cegavske, for “failing to investigate” Trump’s baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud.
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