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My colleague Sydney Ember braved the bright lights of Las Vegas and the snow in Reno this weekend to follow several candidates in Nevada. She sends this dispatch about how the impeachment news is being discussed on the campaign trail.
It’s an impeachment-free world out there. Sort of.
In Nevada this weekend, where several candidates including Joe Biden, the former vice president, and Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., made campaign stops, Democratic voters rarely brought up impeachment unless prompted by a reporter. When they did discuss the topic, they were more likely to talk about how distasteful they found President Trump rather than endorse the impeachment proceedings themselves.
At an event for Mr. Biden on Friday, for instance, Norm Jolicoeur, 65, of Concord, Calif., said he thought the president’s recent actions regarding Ukraine were “atrocious.” But he was more interested in hearing Mr. Biden’s thoughts about health care and “what his first actions will be if he wins the presidency.”
In Reno on Saturday night, the Nevada State Democratic Party hosted Mr. Buttigieg and Tom Steyer, a billionaire former hedge fund investor who recently qualified for the October debate, at a “Keep Nevada Blue” dinner. Though the subject of impeachment hovered in the air, the state’s Democratic officeholders were far more focused on electing Democrats up and down the ticket than on the inquiry happening 3,000 miles across the country.
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