Nevada Democrats are pushing to shift the state from holding a caucus for presidential elections to a primary system. Nevada Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson introduced a bill this week that would place the primary elections on the calendar in mid-January of presidential election years. Frierson said the bill “will lay the groundwork for Nevada to become the first state in the nation in the presidential nominating process.” If approved, Nevada would leapfrog both New Hampshire and Iowa in the primary order. The bill would also require Nevada’s top election official to move the primary even earlier if another state in the West tried jumping ahead of Nevada. Early primary states can prove consequential in determining which candidate emerges as the pick of each major party, though President Joe Biden found his footing after initially stumbling in the 2020 primary. “Nevada’s diverse population and first-hand experience in issues relating to climate change, …