According to new reporting from the Associated Press, Adam Laxalt — who led Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Nevada — already has a campaign strategy to “file lawsuits early” to “tighten up the [2022] election.” Laxalt told a conservative radio show host he intends to preemptively prepare litigation 14 months before Election Day to try and influence the election, limit Nevadans’ voting rights, and potentially overturn the election when he loses.

Laxalt’s embrace of litigation to win elections is not new — after Trump lost Nevada in 2020, Laxalt “orchestrated a slew of failed lawsuits meant to stop the ballot tally.” A federal judge, the Nevada Supreme Court, and Nevada’s Republican Secretary of State all ruled there was no evidence of widespread fraud. But what’s new is Laxalt’s admission he will apply that same strategy to win his own Senate campaign.

Statement from Senior Communications Advisor, Andy Orellana: 

“Adam Laxalt led Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Nevada, and now he’s running the same Big Lie playbook in his Senate campaign. He knows he can’t win on the issues, so Laxalt is planning to push frivolous lawsuits in an effort to limit Nevadans’ voting rights and potentially overturn the election when he loses.”

Read more from AP’s bombshell reporting HERE or key excerpts below:

AP: Laxalt hints at legal fights ahead of 2022 US Senate race

• More than 14 months before the midterm elections, the Republican frontrunner in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race [Adam Laxalt] is raising fears of voter fraud and talking about preemptively mounting legal challenges — a sign that the election denialism that marked the last cycle may carry over into the next.
• “With me at the top of the ticket, we’re going to be able to get everybody at the table and come up with a full plan, do our best to try to secure this election, get as many observers as we can, and file lawsuits early, if there are lawsuits we can file to try to tighten up the election,” he told radio host Wayne Allyn Root on Aug. 24.
• In 2020, he co-chaired Trump’s Nevada campaign, which mounted lawsuits in state and federal courts — challenging rules before the election and later the results. Laxalt has said the 2020 election was “rigged” and legal challenges failed because they were filed too late.
• “There’s no question that, unfortunately, a lot of the lawsuits and a lot of the attention spent on Election Day operations just came too late,” Laxalt said on Root for America, the USA Radio Network program that airs weekdays.
• Republican Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske said investigations found no credible reports of widespread election fraud or tampering. She assured voters that the results in Nevada were accurate and reliable.
• Assurances have done little to deter Laxalt and others. Last month, at Laxalt’s Basque Fry fundraiser, former Trump presidential envoy Ric Grenell and American Conservation Union Chairman Matt Schlapp repeated false claims that Trump won the election in Nevada while Laxalt watched from the sidelines.
• Laxalt did not respond to questions about whether pre-election litigation could affect voter confidence or whether he would accept the results of the 2022 election. Nor did he describe the nature of lawsuits that could “tighten up the election,” as he said on the radio.

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