Trump campaign serves notice it will contest Nevada

Donald Trump has spoken - well, actually tweeted.

President Trump with one single tweet appeared to reverse his administration’s support of entombing dangerous radioactive material under the Yucca mountain.

Just nine months away from the 2020 election, Trump tweeted that he opposed the nuclear waste repository in the remote highlands of Nevada, a state Republicans hope to turn red after years of trending toward Democrats.

Trump backs down from building nuclear waste site in Nevada

Preventing their lovely desert from being made the nation's sacrificial dumping ground for a struggling nuclear power industry is as close as you can find to a consensus opinion in the Nevada's politics. No candidate wants to run on an agenda of polluting the state.

And so the Donald has backed off -- when anyone points out the flip-flop, he'll just lie about it. The electric companies salivating to build nuclear plants will have to wait until after November.

But opposing Yucca Mountain is a minimum bid for any politician in Nevada. No Democratic presidential candidate should take winning the state for granted. It's going to take focus and work.