Adam Laxalt is back at it again with corruption, lies, and attacks against the voice of the people of Nevada. Over 200 days before Nevadans begin to cast their ballots and make their voices heard, Laxalt is already trying to silence them and sabotage the election.
As a new report in the New York Times detailed, Laxalt isn’t trying to win the most votes, he’s trying to restrict access for some voters and only count the votes he wants. He’s launching efforts to intimidate voters, sow distrust in Nevada elections, and sabotage the election results to benefit himself. It is a cynical tactic that underscores that Laxalt is just another corrupt, self-serving politician willing to do or say anything to get elected, even if it means denying Nevadans their freedom to vote and have their vote counted.
While Laxalt is centering his campaign around a lie meant to undermine the voice and vote of hard-working Nevadans, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto is focused on putting more money in the pockets of Nevada families by working to lower prices and help Nevadans pay their eclectic bills, and call out big oil companies for their greedy and exploitative price gouging.
See below for key points from the New York Times:
Nick Corasaniti, Blake Hounshell and Leah Askarinam
03/22/22
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Nevadans still have 231 days until they head to the polls in November. But Adam Laxalt, the former attorney general of Nevada and a Republican candidate for Senate, is already laying detailed groundwork to fight election fraud in his race — long before a single vote has been cast or counted.
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And should he be unable to find help, Laxalt pledged that his campaign would shoulder the cost of bringing in lawyers and mapping out a strategy, even at the expense of other core programs necessary to run a campaign. “If I get into July and I’m like, ‘Dear God, no one’s going to do this right,’ we will pay from our campaign, which means less voter contact for the reason you said,” Laxalt told an attendee. “If someone’s not going to do it, we’ve got to do it. And I’m willing to lose on the other side because we’re going to take it off.”
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Of course, there was no widespread fraud in the Nevada presidential election in 2020, nor anywhere else in the country, as numerous audits, recounts, court challenges and investigations have confirmed. The secretary of state in Nevada spent more than 125 hours investigating allegations brought by the Nevada Republican Party and found no widespread fraud. And there has been no evidence in the run-up to this year’s election of any fraud in the state.
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Laxalt, who was one of the leaders of the Trump campaign’s effort to overturn the results in Nevada, has stated before that voter fraud is the “biggest issue” of the campaign and has publicly talked about establishing a large force of election observers and his plan to file election lawsuits early.
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Despite that losing record, Republican candidates like Laxalt appear poised to repeat the Trump legal strategy of trying to overturn an election in court, even months before there has been any votes or any theoretical voter fraud. Experts note that while these legal strategies are likely doomed to fail in courtrooms, they risk further eroding public trust.
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