Las Vegas, Nevada Former state lawmaker Jim Marchant won the Republican nomination for Nevada secretary of state, setting up a November rematch with Democratic incumbent Cisco Aguilar in one of the nation’s most closely watched election-administration races.
The secretary of state oversees voting in Nevada, a presidential battleground that backed Joe Biden in 2020 and President Donald Trump in 2024. The winner of this race will help administer Nevada’s 2028 presidential election.
Marchant has repeatedly promoted election fraud claims that officials found unsupported. After losing a 2020 congressional race, he claimed both he and Trump were victims of fraud. Nevada’s Republican secretary of state at the time reviewed thousands of fraud allegations and found them baseless or already under investigation. An Associated Press review of potential fraud cases in six battleground states also found too few cases to affect the 2020 outcome.
Marchant defeated Shirley Folkins-Roberts, who was endorsed by Gov. Joe Lombardo, and former lawmaker Sharron Angle. He supports voter ID, ending universal mail ballots, eliminating electronic voting machines, and using hand-counted paper ballots.
Aguilar ran unopposed in the Democratic primary and has promoted changes to election management, voter registration, and protections for election workers.
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