Teresa Benitez-Thompson

Benitez-Thompson is a former Assembly majority leader, social worker and Miss America contestant who most recently served as chief of staff to Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford (D). Her current campaign focuses on restoring the social safety net, returning federal money to Nevada and fighting back against Trump. 

She has endorsements from labor, including the influential Culinary Union Local 226, and Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV). She is also backed by the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada Action Fund. She has at times broken with prominent Nevada Democrats, for instance, in saying she would have voted for resolutions to limit aid to Israel, which Nevada's senators rejected.