In Case You Missed It, new reporting from the Reno Gazette Journal emphasizes the threat Adam Laxalt poses to Nevada and the country. The piece highlights Laxalt’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election for Donald Trump as the “face of” the Big Lie in Nevada and his pledge to go even further in 2022.
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Key Points:
- After a failed 2018 bid for the governor’s mansion, Laxalt burst back on to the Silver State political scene in 2020 to defend the “Big Lie” as co-chair of Trump’s re-election campaign in Nevada.
- In that role, he helped spearhead legal efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and played a key role in efforts to stall the count of ” improper votes” in Clark County, which is home to Las Vegas and the state’s most populous county.
- Those efforts included lawsuits filed in state and federal courts that ultimately were dismissed. And yet, the narrative of a stolen election persists in Laxalt’s inaugural Senate bid.
- He has called election integrity the “hottest topic” of his campaign.
- He insists ineligible and dead voters cast ballots in 2020 — fraud he claims was fueled by “unclean voter rolls” and mail-in ballots sent to all active voters amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
- He’s hinted at preemptively filing legal challenges contesting the 2022 midterm election, long before a single vote is even cast.
- On the campaign trail, he’s said “the Democrats changed our election” in 2020 and that only Nevada’s rural, reliably red counties run fair elections. But Clark County? “We got major problems down there,” he said.
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