Former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto easily won Tuesday night’s Democratic primary to set-up a showdown in November against U.S. Rep. Joe Heck for Harry Reid's U.S. Senate seat.

Rarely have Nevada Republican voters had such clear choices about the future of their party as they do in Tuesday’s primary election.

Republican Assembly incumbents stockpiling for the primary, Senate Democrats saving significant sums for the general, and big-dollar donors pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into would-be ballot measures.

In 2005, businessman Jim Rogers took control of the Nevada System of Higher Education. In exchange for his services, Rogers asked for $1 in annual compensation. Rogers’ offer did, however, come with a significant catch: the Board of Regents had to centralize authority in the chancellor’s position. Until then, the chancellor — and the college and university presidents — reported to the regents as equals.

One positions himself as the leader of a revolution, the other as an outsider who’ll rescue the nation from a political establishment that has dragged it into despair.

A tooth-and-nail political battle for the ages is being played out in Nevada this primary season pitting anti-tax Republicans against moderates in nearly a score of Assembly races around the state.

Housekeeper Celia Vargas was marching on the picket line in front of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas when a motorcade ferrying the billionaire rumbled past.

Across the country, Republican politicians have begun distancing themselves from their party’s presidential front-runner, Donald Trump, for fear of what a Trump nomination might mean for Republicans’ down-ballot chances. Not in Nevada.