How to Win Nevada

THE ENDED of the American election season always coincides with Halloween. That can make for very strange campaigns. Democrats in Las Vegas, Nevada, have staged a “Project 2025 haunted house” by decorating their offices with skeletons, tombstones — and a video from January 6, 2021. A huge, fluffy stuffed spider hangs in a web in a corner. “Look what a mess Trump has made,” reads a poster in front of it, “in his web of LIES!” A cardboard cutout of Kamala Harris (wearing a cape) watches over the coffee bar, where exhausted campaign staffers tend their 6 p.m. brew.