Swing state GOP candidate could hit major milestone in mayoral race amid ‘Republican wave’ optimism

Las Vegas, which sits in battleground Clark County in one of the most closely watched swing states in the upcoming election, is home to a mayoral race where a Republican could win for the first time in half a century. 

Democrat Shelley Berkley and Republican Victoria Seaman, the top two vote-getters in the June primary, will square off on Tuesday to determine who will be mayor of Las Vegas, a city that hasn’t had a Republican mayor since Oran Grayson left office in 1975.

Fox News Digital spoke to Councilwoman Seaman about Republican enthusiasm in Nevada and why the climate on the ground is potentially ripe for a conservative to be elected mayor of one of the nation’s most rapidly growing cities.

“I think people are tired of extreme liberal policies that simply don’t work, and they want to find common sense solutions,” Seaman told Fox News Digital. “And we’re seeing an incredible Republican wave right now in Clark County. And I think it speaks for itself that people are tired of policies that simply don’t work.“

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The mayor, who is considered nonpartisan, although the candidates are both affiliated with political parties, is a member of the Las Vegas City Council and is the only member elected at large. 

The city of Las Vegas does not include the resort-lined Strip, which is in unincorporated Clark County and falls under the jurisdiction of a county commission.

Rising housing costs has been a top concern of voters both Democrat and Republican in Nevada, which Seaman told Fox News Digital she is committed to addressing if elected mayor. 

“Almost 87 percent of southern Nevada is owned by the Bureau of Land Management,” Seaman said. “It’s really important to be working with our delegation to make sure that we can get some of this land back and annex that into the city for workforce and affordable housing. And those are the things that I’ve been working on to give incentives to builders. Tax increment financing and all the grants that we’ve been getting from the state and federal government to make sure that we’re working on mixed-use housing. What we’ve done is we’re not leaving anything on the table. We’ve applied for grants, any grants that we can get.”

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