In Case You Missed It, corrupt politician Adam Laxalt faced relentless criticism for his failed attempts at overturning the 2020 election during his debate on Nevada Newsmakers.

As Trump’s campaign co-chair, Laxalt led efforts to contest the 2020 election results in Nevada and was “the face of” Trump’s Big Lie in the state.

Read more on the exchange: 

Associated Press: Laxalt, Brown clash over voter fraud in NV’s GOP Senate race

• Republican Senate hopefuls Adam Laxalt and Sam Brown clashed over Laxalt’s performance as chairman of ex-President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign in Nevada and whether he did enough to combat voter fraud when he was attorney general…
• The series of sharp exchanges came after Laxalt touted his record as attorney general and current endorsements from Trump and others.
• Brown said Laxalt relies on endorsements “because Nevadans can’t rely on him.”
• He said Laxalt failed Nevadans by failing to investigate voter fraud when he was attorney general and blamed him — as chairman of Trump’s campaign — for failing to initiate a timely legal challenge of the 2022 results.

Nevada Independent: Laxalt, Brown face off in first debate of Republican Senate primary

• Echoing rhetoric that first appeared on an attack website last week, Brown said that Laxalt “failed us” on the issue during his time as attorney general. 
• That website accused Laxalt of having “ignored voter fraud” in 2016 and 2017, when Republican Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske alleged that DMV voter registration policies had allowed non-citizens to register to vote, and ultimately accused three non-citizens of voting in the 2016 election. 
• It was an attack that Laxalt — who served as the co-chair of Trump’s re-election bid in Nevada and was front-and-center during the campaign’s efforts to legally challenge the election results — rebutted as “pretty comical.”
• Still, Brown stayed on the attack, asking Laxalt: “At what point do you accept responsibility for the lack of lawyers’ performance, for the failure of lawsuits to be filed on time?” 

Las Vegas Review Journal: Top Republicans in Senate race clash in debate

• Two of the top Republicans vying to unseat incumbent Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto this fall sparred over election integrity while showing very little light between their respective stances on host of other issues from abortion to immigration in their first debate of the U.S. senatorial primary.
• Near the end of the debate Brown went on the attack against Laxalt over his role in the 2020 election lawsuits, claiming Laxalt wasn’t aggressive enough in his pursuit of those challenges to conduct of the election.
• As the Trump campaign’s Nevada co-chair, Laxalt acted as a spokesman for several challenges to Nevada’s elections. And in a lawsuit filed in December 2020, he was one of the attorneys who represented Republicans alleging that their votes cast in the 2020 election were “diluted” based on the unproven claims of voter fraud. That lawsuit was later dismissed.

Reno Gazette Journal: GOP Senate hopefuls Laxalt, Brown trade blows over Trump’s election loss in first debate

• “I’m running, in contrast to Adam, to be a champion for Nevadans, especially on issues we shouldn’t give away,” Brown said when asked about his differences with Laxalt on Nevada Newsmakers. “Election integrity is one (issue) where he’s failed us…”
• He opened the hostilities by accusing Laxalt of “failing” Nevadans concerned about President Donald Trump’s long debunked claims of widespread election fraud…
• Laxalt lost a 2018 bid for the governor’s mansion, and has built his political comeback around becoming one of the state’s loudest proponents for Trump’s bogus vote-counting claims. 
• The 43-year-old conservative has also insisted that ineligible and dead voters cast ballots, that laws adopted by the Democratic-led statehouse invited fraud and that Republican observers were prevented from seeing ballot counting or challenging signatures on mail-in ballots. His lawsuit making that case was, like all the others, eventually dismissed by the courts. 

Nevada Current: In an odd early morning debate, Brown says Laxalt’s efforts to save Trump were too late

• Brown criticized Laxalt for failing to promote “election integrity” and protect the Second Amendment. 
• Nevada Republican Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske investigated claims of massive voter fraud and alleged by the Trump campaign and Nevada Republicans and found no evidence to support the accusations. Laxalt has been a prominent backer of the Big Lie, a Trump-supported conspiracy that widespread fraud altered the results of the 2020 election. 

Nevada Appeal: Brown, Laxalt debate in race for GOP nomination for U.S. Senate

• Brown charged that Laxalt knew non-citizens were voting in 2018 and 2020 but did nothing about it. He added Laxalt filed a challenge over this past election after the deadline.
• In response, Laxalt said he wasn’t in charge of election security, that the Secretary of State’s office handles that issue. He also said he didn’t handle the legal challenges to the vote turnout. He said that was the Republican National Committee’s job and, “they got caught flat-footed.”
• That drew a sharp response from Brown who said, “we’re not going to settle for people who blame everyone else.”
• Brown said Laxalt is relying heavily on endorsements from politicians including former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, “because Nevadans can’t rely on him.”
• “Nevada deserves better and you need to be better,” he told Laxalt.

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