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Tonight we wrap up the two-part Nevada caucus miniseries, even though the end of this one should be much more predictable than Saturday's episode. Elsewhere, Democrats try to figure out where their voters have gone, and Donald Trump takes on the Chicago Cubs.

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Trump hits Vegas with a hot hand

Nevada Democrats cast their votes Saturday afternoon; it's the Republicans' turn tonight. Donald Trump comes into Nevada with a two-state winning streak and a solid lead in the polls, and Trump's son has already declared his dad the winner. So what drama is left in the Silver State?

Not much, barring an upset victory by Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz. The two campaigns have better organization in the state than Trump (though we'll give the slight edge to Cruz), but they'll likely just be fighting it out for second-place momentum going into Super Tuesday a week from now. The state's 30 delegates will be allocated proportionally, so neither John Kasich nor Ben Carson are putting in a huge amount of effort to try to snag a winner-take-all upset. In other words, for the non-Trump candidates it'll be like the typical trip to Nevada: Spend some money, lose more than you win, leave town and never speak of it again.

The billionaire vs. the Lovable Losers

We've seen this one before: super-rich guy vs. a ragtag bunch of baseball-playing misfits. Except in this case, the baseball team is owned by billionaires. Marlene Ricketts, matriarch of the family that owns the Chicago Cubs, is spending millions on an anti-Trump super PAC (which is weird ... we figured they were completely out of money thanks to the Jason Heyward contract.)

"A lot to hide"? I don't know, they're pretty open about the fact that they own the Cubs.

You know who else could go for a while without winning anything? Marco Rubio, apparently. Through the first three states, he's 0-for-3. In all likelihood, he's not going to win Nevada tonight. Analysts say he could even make it through Super Tuesday without a single first-place finish and still win the nomination — provided that Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Ben Carson sustain some damage over the next few contests. He'll have more money to play with as most of the big-money donors start to gravitate toward his campaign (although he still trails Cruz in the money race). Here's the weird quirk about the primary process, though: You do need to win a state at some point in order to win the nomination. (Completely unfair, right? It's like some sort of, I don't know, popularity contest.)

Dems to primary voters: Are you anywhere?

Last week, we looked at recreational marijuana on the ballot in several states, including a handful of key swing states, as a possible incentive to increase Democratic turnout in the general election. After looking at voter turnout in February, Team D has to be wondering if it's too late to get recreational marijuana on all the ballots, and maybe peyote and mushrooms as well. Democratic turnout in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, the first three states of their primary calendar, has been down from 2008; meanwhile, Republicans have seen record turnout in their first three (Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.)

Primary turnout may not reflect turnout in the general election, but the trend so far is troubling for Democrats hoping to hang on to the White House. It's not as if the GOP doesn't have a sideshow cause of their own in 2016; the next president may wind up nominating one or more Supreme Court justices between now and 2020, and Republicans would much rather see more Scalias than Ginsburgs. Once the primary season wraps up, watch for Democrats to play up the history angle — either in support of the first woman major-party candidate, or the most progressive presidential candidate since Eugene Debs.

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