Titus Preaching “Policy,” Shafts Farmers 24 Hours Later

One day after going on TV to lecture Washington about putting “policy over politics,” Nevada Democrat Dina Titus did exactly the opposite.

Titus joined fellow Democrats Susie Lee and Steven Horsford in voting against the Farm Bill, a package Republicans say would strengthen risk management, expand access to credit, lower costs, and invest in rural communities.

So much for the lecture.

Nevada farmers do not have the luxury of political games. They work from sunup to sundown to feed this country while dealing with drought, rising input costs, and federal red tape. When Washington gets it wrong, they feel it immediately in their bottom line.

And when given the chance to back them, Titus, Lee, and Horsford voted no.

The timing is what makes it impossible to ignore.

Twenty-four hours earlier, Titus was warning against using farm policy as a “political football.” Then she turned around and sided with her party instead of Nevada’s farming and ranching communities. If that is what “policy first” looks like, Nevada farmers are right to be skeptical.

This is not happening in a vacuum.

Rural Nevada already feels overlooked by politicians focused on urban priorities and national talking points. Votes like this reinforce the belief that when push comes to shove, Washington Democrats are more interested in pleasing activists than standing up for the people who produce America’s food and keep rural economies alive.

NRCC Spokesman Christian Martinez put it bluntly: Titus, Lee, and Horsford showed their true colors, choosing to cater to the radical left instead of delivering for hardworking Nevada farmers who feed and fuel the country.

That message is landing because the contrast is so clean.

Farmers needed support. Democrats voted against it. The day after preaching about avoiding politics.

Nevada is not just the Las Vegas Strip. It is ranchers in Elko, farmers in Fallon, and families across wide-open counties who depend on agriculture to survive. They are used to being ignored. What they are not used to is being lectured one day and voted against the next.

For Titus, Lee, and Horsford, the problem is not just the vote.

It is that voters can see it in real time.

Say one thing. Do another.

And in rural Nevada, that kind of politics does not go unnoticed.

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