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    Latino Votes Crucial In Nevada, As Culinary Union Focuses On Turnout

    Dean Heller is the only Republican in the Senate up for re-election in a state Hillary Clinton won. Latino union workers are a key voting bloc for his Democratic opponent, Rep. Jacky Rosen.
    by Lulu Garcia-Navarro Oct 03, 2018 4 minutes
    Attendees rally outside the Las Vegas Convention Center as they watch President Trump's Make America Great Again Rally on screens in the parking lot on Sept. 20.

    For all the talk of how Democrats running for re-election in states President Trump won are a protective shield for Senate Republicans, Nevada's Dean Heller has the opposite problem.

    He is the only Republican senator up for re-election in a state that Democrat Hillary Clinton won in 2016. The candidate challenging him for the seat is Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen. "Right now, the Republicans have all three branches of government," Rosen said. "So what we can do is try to hold their feet to the fire every way we can, because we don't have the votes to win."

    For Nevada, that means this state of only about 3 million people plays an outsize political role in this year's midterm elections. Republicans and Democrats are

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