Vice News: Laxalt is […] one of a number of Republicans across the country who have embraced and promulgated Trump’s election lies as they seek to win Senate seats next fall […] In the process, they run the risk of alienating swing voters in purple states.”
For months failed gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt has avoided Nevadans, ignored local media and stayed silent as the NV GOP has descended into chaos after being ensnared in a national scandal with the Proud Boys. Now he is once again making national headlines, facing renewed scrutiny for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election on behalf of Donald Trump.
This time, Vice News lays out clearly how Laxalt “sprang into action to back up [Trump’s] wild claims,” yoking himself to Trump’s lies and will now “run the risk of alienating swing voters in purple states” if he runs for Senate in 2022.
Read the full accounting below of Laxalt’s actions for Trump, his pushing of the Big Lie and the subsequent political fallout that Laxalt may endure if he runs for Senate.
Vice News: Trump’s Election Lies Are Taking Over Republican Senate Races
“As President Trump wailed that the 2020 election was being stolen from him last winter, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt sprang into action to back up his wild claims.
Laxalt, Trump’s Nevada campaign co-chairman, filed an injunction to stop Nevada’s largest county from counting mail ballots. He spoke at a “Stop the Steal” rally. He claimed he had evidence of “dead voters that have been counted.” He said “illegals” had cast thousands of ballots, suggesting undocumented immigrants had flipped the state against Trump. He sued to get Joe Biden’s win overturned. Even after Nevada had certified its results, he filed a Dec. 31 lawsuit that alleged Nevada’s Republican secretary of state hadn’t kept noncitizens from voting.
“Serious questions remain as to whether we did indeed hold a secure and accurate election in Nevada,” Laxalt wrote in a mid-November op-ed. “We now know that there are thousands of illegal votes consisting of a combination of dead voters, out-of-state voters, double voters (those who cast ballots in Nevada and another state), among other improper votes.”
Now, Laxalt is gearing up for a return to centerstage—one of a number of Republicans across the country who have embraced and promulgated Trump’s election lies as they seek to win Senate seats next fall.
Most of the GOP front-runners in key Senate races are clinging to the lie that Trump actually won the 2020 election, seeking to out-Trump one another to win the GOP base. In the process, they run the risk of alienating swing voters in purple states.
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