It’s no secret that corrupt politician Adam Laxalt is seriously struggling to raise campaign cash, even as he schmoozes the elite in Washington D.C. 

SHOT: Laxalt “Can’t Raise Money and Won’t Shut Up About it,” according to reporting in the Daily Beast earlier this month.

CHASER: Laxalt flocked to D.C. to beg for cash from lobbyists and far-right politicians last week, according to the New York Times, where he headlined an “Evening Cigar With Adam Laxalt Hosted by Premium Cigar Association” event for $250 per person or $500 per PAC.

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New York Times: G.O.P. Senate Hopefuls Leave Campaign Trail for Beltway Money Circuit

Jonathan Martin // 9.24.22

Key Points: 

• Yet the frenetic cash dash around Washington, shortly before early voting gets underway in many states, underscores the urgency Republicans are feeling to cut into Democrats’ fund-raising advantage. A major part of the motivation: Candidates receive substantially better television advertising rates than super PACs, so an individual campaign dollar goes further on the air.
• Mr. Laxalt, too, put in long hours far from Nevada. After attending the events in Florida and Georgia last week, he spent Tuesday at a $2,900-per-person dinner in Virginia’s well-heeled hunt country. Mr. Laxalt then came back to Washington to attend a series of events on Wednesday with lobbyists and Republican senators, concluding with an “Evening Cigar With Adam Laxalt Hosted by Premium Cigar Association” that cost $250 per person or $500 per PAC to attend (no word on if the cigar was extra).
• “The math is really simple: You can’t get there at $2,900 a pop,” said Mr. Reed, the Republican strategist.

Daily Beast: Nevada Republican Can’t Raise Money and Won’t Shut Up About It

Ursula Perano // 9.09.22

Key Points: 

• It’s no secret that Nevada’s Republican Senate nominee Adam Laxalt is behind on fundraising. But while he’s chest-thumping in public and forecasting the state will swing red, he’s simultaneously griping that his Democratic opponent isn’t having the same problem attracting donors.
• In audio obtained by The Daily Beast from a July luncheon with the Southern Hills Republican Women, Laxalt, amid the sounds of clinking cutlery, said, “The Democrats have unlimited money, they have unlimited money. You think we have it bad here? Masto has, she just did $10 million she has to spend, we have $2 million. She’s on TV now because she has money and we don’t.”
• By the numbers, Laxalt has plenty to complain about. While Democrats don’t have unlimited money, they’ve been leading Republicans in a number of high-profile Senate races, including in Nevada. Incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto has raised more than $29 million, while Laxalt has raised just over $7 million, according to the campaign-finance tracking-site Open Secrets.

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