Joe Biden is counting on Nevada. Has the COVID-19 pandemic hurt his chances?
LAS VEGAS - On a blazing hot afternoon, two canvassers recently went door to door in a working-class neighborhood of east Las Vegas, bearing masks, campaign fliers and the weight of Democratic worries.
Up and down stairs, across baking driveways, past thirsty lawns, Maria Magana and Atilano Salgado took turns asking voters in English, Spanish and a combination if they would support Joe Biden for president.
"Perfecto," Magana responded when the answer was yes. Then she entered the information on a tablet cradled in her arm.
Nevada - once reliably Republican but more recently Democratic - is something of a question mark in these closing weeks of the campaign.
Polls taken before President Donald Trump's hospitalization with COVID-19
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