Sen. Cortez Masto’s GOP Rival Claims He’s Unbothered By Own Family’s Endorsement Of Dem

Nevada GOP Senate candidate Adam Laxalt speaks to a crowd at an election night event on June 14, 2022 in Reno, Nevada. (Trevor Bexon/Getty Images)
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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s (D-NV) Republican challenger, former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt, wants you to know that he’s at peace with the fact that more than a dozen of his own family members have openly backed his rival.

Laxalt, an election denier who served as co-chair of the Trump campaign in Nevada, declared on Wednesday evening that he was unruffled by the joint endorsement 14 of his own relatives had put out for Cortez Masto earlier in the day, claiming that those relatives were already Democrats – “most” of them, anyway.

“It’s not surprising that once again a handful of family members and spouses, half of whom do not live in Nevada, and most of whom are Democrats, are supporting a Democrat,” the GOP candidate tweeted.

“They think that Nevada & our country are heading in the right direction,” he continued. “I believe Nevadans don’t agree with the Biden/[Cortez] Masto agenda of high gas prices, soaring inflation, rising crime, and an open border.”

His relatives’ three-page endorsement, which did not mention Laxalt, praised Cortez Masto as having “Nevada grit.”

“Her entire career is not a simple ‘sound-bite’ that merely speaks of supporting Nevada,” they said. “Rather, her entire career demonstrates years of bold actions that she has taken as an authentic advocate of Nevada.”

It’s not the first time Laxalt’s family members have publicly spoken out against one of his runs for office: In 2018, a dozen of them penned an op-ed in the Reno Gazette-Journal tearing into his (ultimately doomed) gubernatorial bid. Most of those same relatives also signed off on the Cortez Masto endorsement.

However, another 22 of Laxalt’s relatives put out an opposite column boosting the then-gubernatorial hopeful.

The Nevada Senate election is one of the most competitive races in the 2022 midterm cycle, one that’s key in Democrat and Republicans’ tug-o-war over the Senate.

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  1. Avatar for jmacaz jmacaz says:

    I wonder how many of those non-endorsers are women?

  2. Avatar for dave48 dave48 says:

    Laxalt’s entire family gave him a vote of no confidence. That should mean something. Let’s hope it does.

  3. Avatar for fgs fgs says:

    Did all this waste of carbon’s crime footage in all his campaign ads, happen during that last shitty, miserable summer when The Rump was still President? Ron Johnson at least has that prick from Waukesha driving into the Christmas parade but he is totally running against the Trump crime wave caused by mismanagement of the Trump virus.

  4. Avatar for fgs fgs says:

    Point of fact, Rump wasn’t quite thrown TF out the White House yet when the Waukesha Christmas parade prick happened, either. Which makes RoJo 100% running against the Trump crime wave.

  5. Avatar for jinnj jinnj says:

    Guess he’s one of those "Family " holds no value kind of guys.

    But seriously - if you really don’t give a shit about your own family … why should anyone think you might trouble yourself to do anything for anyone else - unless it truly benefits you … and then the benefits to others are just random coincidence.

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