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D'Nese Davis
D'Nese Davis was a 2018 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 1st Congressional District of Nevada.[1] Davis did not appear on the candidate list following the March 16 filing deadline.[2]
Davis was a 2016 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. Senate from Nevada. Davis was defeated by Joe Heck in the Republican primary.[3]
Elections
2018
The filing deadline was on March 16, 2018, and the primary election took place on June 12, 2018.
2016
The race for Nevada's open U.S. Senate seat was one of Ballotpedia's nine competitive battleground races in 2016. Former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto (D) defeated U.S. Rep. Joe Heck (R), a doctor and brigadier general in the Army Reserve who served in Iraq, and four third-party candidates in the general election to win retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s (D) seat. Her victory on November 8, 2016, made her the first-ever Latina elected to the United States Senate.[4][5][6]
Reid’s seat was the Republican Party’s only chance to pick up a Senate seat this cycle. Cortez Masto’s biggest ally was Reid, who used his get out the vote resources to make sure his seat stayed under Democratic control. Reid and outside groups heavily influenced the race and were partially responsible for the negative tone and numerous attack ads. According to USA Today, “The race was anything but cordial. Outside money flooded the state bringing the total spending to nearly $100 million. All that cash washed away nearly any real policy discussion, as attacks flew claiming Cortez Masto was incompetent and corrupt while Heck was a stooge for the billionaire Koch Brothers.”[7]
In her victory speech, Cortez Masto commented on her status as the first Latina elected to the Senate, saying, "It's not just about making history. Don't you think it is about time that we had diversity in the U.S. Senate? Don't you think it's about time that our government mirrors the people we serve every day?"[8]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |  Catherine Cortez Masto |
47.1% | 521,994 | |
| Republican | Joe Heck | 44.7% | 495,079 | |
| N/A | None of these candidates | 3.8% | 42,257 | |
| Independent American | Tom Jones | 1.5% | 17,128 | |
| Independent | Thomas Sawyer | 1.3% | 14,208 | |
| Independent | Tony Gumina | 1% | 10,740 | |
| Independent | Jarrod Williams | 0.6% | 6,888 | |
| Total Votes | 1,108,294 | |||
| Source: Nevada Secretary of State | ||||
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Joe Heck |
64.9% | 74,524 | ||
| Sharron Angle | 22.8% | 26,146 | ||
| None of these candidates | 3.4% | 3,903 | ||
| Tom Heck | 3.1% | 3,567 | ||
| Eddie Hamilton | 1.8% | 2,057 | ||
| D'Nese Davis | 1.7% | 1,938 | ||
| Bill Tarbell | 1% | 1,179 | ||
| Robert Leeds | 0.6% | 662 | ||
| Juston Preble | 0.5% | 582 | ||
| Carlo Poliak | 0.2% | 279 | ||
| Total Votes | 114,837 | |||
| Source: Nevada Secretary of State |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Catherine Cortez Masto |
80.6% | 81,971 | ||
| Allen Rheinhart | 5.6% | 5,650 | ||
| None of these candidates | 5.4% | 5,501 | ||
| Liddo O'Briant | 4.8% | 4,842 | ||
| Bobby Mahendra | 3.7% | 3,764 | ||
| Total Votes | 101,728 | |||
| Source: Nevada Secretary of State |
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Campaign themes
2016
The following issues were listed on Davis' campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.
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| —D'Nese Davis' campaign website, http://www.dnesedavis.com/positions/#1454103568566-d97f6a80-fed6 | ||
Recent news
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See also
- United States House of Representatives
- Nevada's 1st Congressional District election, 2018
- United States Senate
- United States Senate election in Nevada, 2016
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ D'Nese Davis for Congress, "Home," accessed October 30, 2017
- ↑ Clark County Nevada, "Election Department : Candidate Filing in Clark County," accessed March 22, 2018
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedprimary16 - ↑ Time, "Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada Is U.S. Senate’s First Latina," accessed November 14, 2016
- ↑ Nevada Secretary of State, "2016 Filed Non-Judicial Candidates," accessed March 19, 2016
- ↑ Nevada Secretary of State, "2016 Master Statewide Certified List of Candidates," accessed September 7, 2016
- ↑ USA Today, "Nevada voters send first Latina to U.S. Senate," accessed November 14, 2016
- ↑ McClatchy DC, "Nevada's Cortez Masto breaks barrier as 1st Latina in Senate," accessed November 14, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
