A Nevada Republican with a political pedigree and the backing of former President Donald Trump and the GOP establishment is facing a surprisingly strong primary challenge. Tuesday’s U.S. Senate primary was expected to be a cakewalk for Adam Laxalt. But Laxalt is facing a rising threat from retired Army captain and Purple Heart recipient Sam Brown. That’s making the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Nevada one of several races testing the potency of Trump’s support. Primaries are also taking place in South Carolina, Maine and North Dakota. Nevada’s Republican winner will face Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in what may be the GOP’s best opportunity to flip a Senate seat.
Laxalt is well-known in the state for having served for four years as Nevada’s attorney general and campaigned unsuccessfully for governor in 2018. He's also the grandson of former U.S. Sen. Paul Laxalt.
Brown, to the surprise of many in the state, won the endorsement of the Nevada Republican Party at a convention vote in late April and a straw poll of the Las Vegas-area GOP at a May gathering. Recent polls have shown him closing in on Laxalt, though the state, with a transient population and many late-shift workers due to the state’s tourism and casino industry, is considered fickle for pollsters.
Though Laxalt is still considered the favorite to win, both candidates are expected to have a similar chance in November at defeating Cortez Masto, who is expected to handily win her party’s endorsement over several little-known competitors. Those same factors could imperil the reelection of Sisolak, whose Republican challenger will emerge from Tuesday’s primary.
Trump’s false claims of fraud in the 2020 election are laced throughout some of Tuesday’s contests, including what’s normally a little-watched race for Nevada secretary of state. Republican Barbara Cegavske, who was censured by the Nevada GOP for declaring there was no fraud and defending the results as accurate, is term-limited. A crowded field of Republicans who have embraced “election integrity” concerns to varying degrees are vying to replace her.
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