Nationwide coverage of Laxalt’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election in the wake of his GOP nomination
In Case You Missed It, as the general election begins, corrupt politician Adam Laxalt is facing extensive national and local scrutiny for leading efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election for Trump.
Laxalt is the “face of” the Big Lie in Nevada, having orchestrated failed lawsuit after failed lawsuit to stop a peaceful transfer of power. He has centered his entire campaign around the Big Lie and declared he would launch legal action to overturn the 2022 election long before any votes have been cast. See for yourself:
New York Times, 6.14.22: G.O.P. primary victories in Nevada set the stage for Trump-centered battles in the fall.
Among the Republicans who won their primaries Tuesday were Adam Laxalt, a Senate candidate and former Nevada attorney general who led Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, and Jim Marchant, a secretary of state candidate who has pressed conspiracy theories about voting machines and hopes to oversee the state’s 2024 election…In an audio recording obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Laxalt told voters in March that he was already gearing up to fight election fraud in his race, explaining that “we’re vetting which group we think is going to do better.”
NPR, 6.14.22: Trump ally Adam Laxalt wins Nevada’s Republican U.S. Senate primary
Laxalt, who was a Nevada co-chair of Trump’s 2020 campaign, has been an outspoken supporter of Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him. In the aftermath of the presidential election, Laxalt continued to say the results were rigged and that the legal challenges against the election, which he helped lead, were unsuccessful because they were filed too late. Last week, Trump held a call with Laxalt supporters and emphasized the need to turn out for his chosen candidate; during the call, Laxalt referred to Trump as the current president.
HuffPost, 6.14.22: Prominent Election Denier Adam Laxalt Wins Nevada GOP Senate Primary
Since the 2020 election, Laxalt has emerged as a champion of Trump’s election fraud lies, especially among Republican senate hopefuls. A former Nevada attorney general who served as Trump’s campaign co-chair, Laxalt filed several lawsuits on behalf of Trump allies seeking to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory. Laxalt has suggested he may challenge the results of his own race if he loses in November… Laxalt has flip-flopped in his sweeping criticisms of Nevada’s mail-in voting system, telling crowds in urban Democratic counties that voting by mail isn’t secure, while urging supporters in rural counties where Republicans run up margins to get their neighbors to vote absentee.
Daily Beast, 6.15.22: Nevada Candidates Who Back Election Lies Scoop Up Republican Nominations
After taking a bruising at recent Jan. 6 committee hearings, the Big Lie got a boost with Republican nominations in Nevada this week. Adam Laxalt—a Trump-backed former state attorney general who has promoted unfounded claims about the 2020 election—scooped up the GOP nomination for the state’s pivotal U.S. Senate seat on Wednesday.
Las Vegas Sun, 6.16.22: Win or lose, Republicans continue to allege voter fraud
Laxalt’s campaign did not return the Sun’s request for comment about if his win Tuesday changed his thoughts on the 2020 election. The Sun also wanted to ask him if he’d continue with the lawsuits if he loses in November to Cortez Masto. Voters can look to his actions in 2020.
Politico, 6.15.22: Trump bet on 13 candidates in Tuesday’s primaries. Here’s who won.
The former Nevada attorney general also served as a Trump campaign state co-chair and was a major voice in the attempts to overturn 2020 election results. He filed state and federal lawsuits before and after Nov. 2, claiming the entire process was rigged and filled with “improper votes.”
The Hill, 6.15.22: Laxalt wins Nevada GOP Senate primary
Democrats have seized on Laxalt’s vocal support for Trump’s unproven claims the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. Laxalt served as the co-chair of Trump’s reelection campaign in Nevada in 2020. He also unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2018, losing to Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) by 4 points.
Vox, 6.15.22: 4 winners and 2 losers from the Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, and South Carolina primaries
Adam Laxalt — the well-known, anti-abortion, pro-Trump former attorney general — cleared the field. He was Trump’s 2020 Nevada campaign co-chair and has been an outspoken advocate for the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. Earlier this year, he declared he “sounded every alarm imaginable” after the 2020 election that it had been stolen.
Esquire, 6.15.22: Every Republican Primary Is Just a Trumpier-Than-Thou Bonanza
On Tuesday, Laxalt won a primary race that was conducted almost completely on a Trumpier-than-thou basis. From the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “Laxalt, who served as Trump’s Nevada campaign co-chair in 2020, has been one of the most vocal promoters of debunked claims of widespread voter fraud in Nevada after the 2020 election, which Democrats hope to make a campaign issue heading into November. Serving as the Trump campaign’s co-chair in Nevada, Laxalt cast doubt on election security in the state and criticized Democrats for pushing through a new election law on a party-line vote amid the pandemic. Laxalt has also said that he would look at pre-emptively filing lawsuits to challenge the state’s election systems ahead of the 2022 elections.”
Nevada Independent, 6.15.22: Laxalt beats Brown in Senate primary: Nevada’s GOP House field takes shape
After losing a 2018 bid for governor, Laxalt served as the Trump re-election campaign’s Nevada co-chair. There, Laxalt was key to early efforts by the Trump team to overturn the presidential election results, including falsely claiming that tens of thousands of illegal votes had been cast.
Las Vegas Review Journal, 6.15.22: Laxalt wins Republican nomination for U.S. Senate
Laxalt, who served as Trump’s Nevada campaign co-chair in 2020, has been one of the most vocal promoters of debunked claims of widespread voter fraud in Nevada after the 2020 election, which Democrats hope to make a campaign issue heading into November. Serving as the Trump campaign’s co-chair in Nevada, Laxalt cast doubt on election security in the state and criticized Democrats for pushing through a new election law on a party-line vote amid the pandemic. Laxalt has also said that he would look at pre-emptively filing lawsuits to challenge the state’s election systems ahead of the 2022 elections.
Las Vegas Review Journal, 6.15.22: Conservatives win big in Nevada statewide contests
Adam Laxalt, who has pushed election fraud conspiracies, won his primary for U.S. Senate and will face Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.
This Is Reno, 6.15.22: Trump-backed candidates take some Nevada races in Tuesday’s primary
Laxalt has been criticized locally on a handful of issues including for filing an election fraud lawsuit for the 2020 election, embracing “the great replacement theory” and his anti-abortion stance. In Trump-fashion, Laxalt has also hinted that he’s ready to file preemptive legal challenges to try and lock in his win.
MSNBC (Broadcast) 6.15.22: Laxalt and Big Lie
CORASANITI: In the senate, Adam Laxalt, you know, he was talking even before yesterday’s election about forming a legal team to challenge eventual election results and we had audio of him from earlier this year talking to supporters about how important a legal team was to challenge election results, that he would even take are from his from his campaign’s field team to pay for it. These are candidates that are putting it at the front of their campaigns and they’re getting rewarded by the republican base, you know, and they’re choosing them to be their nominee in November.
Associated Press, 6.14.22: Adam Laxalt wins Republican nomination for Nevada Senate
Adam Laxalt, a former state attorney general who has embraced lies about the 2020 election, won the Republican nomination for a pivotal Nevada Senate seat, fending off a challenge from a political newcomer and setting up what will likely be a fierce and costly race against incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto, one of the most endangered Democrats in an evenly divided Senate. […] Laxalt worked on Trump’s reelection campaign and promoted his lies about election fraud in the state after the 2020 election, including spearheading legal challenges to the vote-counting process… Trump’s false claims of fraud in the 2020 election were laced throughout the campaign. Last fall, Laxalt began raising fears of voter fraud in 2022 and talked about preemptively mounting legal challenges “to try to tighten up the election.” Laxalt had insisted in 2020 that ineligible and dead voters cast ballots in the presidential election in Nevada, despite the state’s Republican secretary of state insisting that the results showing Biden’s victory were accurate and reliable.
New York Times, 6.14.22: Adam Laxalt wins the Republican Senate primary in Nevada, setting up a high-stakes November fight.
Following Mr. Trump’s cue, Mr. Laxalt has promoted baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election, and he began laying detailed groundwork to fight election fraud in his own race this year, months before any votes were cast. The endorsements were a cornerstone of Mr. Laxalt’s campaign, with both national leaders visiting the state to rally for him and recording television commercials on his behalf. Mr. Laxalt also received a boost from the Club for Growth, an influential conservative anti-tax group, whose political action committee spent nearly $1 million.
NBC News, 6.14.22: Adam Laxalt wins Nevada Republican Senate primary, will face Cortez Masto
With Brown building momentum, Laxalt — who co-chaired Trump’s 2020 campaign in Nevada and led the effort to challenge the state’s election results — flashed his Trump clout, bringing in several of the former president’s allies to rally and knock on doors with him in the race’s closing days. On Friday night, Donald Trump Jr. held a rally for Laxalt in Las Vegas, where they were joined on stage by Trump’s former acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker. Two days earlier, Trump himself held a telerally with Laxalt supporters, urging them to back his onetime Nevada presidential campaign co-chair.
Axios, 6.14.22: Trump-backed Adam Laxalt wins Nevada Senate GOP primary
The big picture: Laxalt has close ties to prominent Republicans, including Trump, having worked on his 2020 re-election campaign, per AP. Laxalt helped push false claims about election fraud in Nevada after the 2020 election and he led legal challenges to overturn election results.
Reno Gazette Journal, 6.14.22: Laxalt projected to beat Brown in Nevada’s closely watched GOP Senate primary race
Laxalt has spent the better part of two years positioning himself as the face of discredited efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in the Silver State.
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