EXCLUSIVE – Former us-regions Attorney General Adam Laxalt is bursting out of the gate when it comes toelectionsfor hissenatebid to try and unseat Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in the 2022 elections
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But beating Cortez Masto in the key western battleground state won’t be easy. The senator, who chaired the Senate Democrats’ reelection arm last cycle, had a healthy $6.6 million in her campaign coffers at the beginning of July. The senator’s yet to announce her July-September third quarter fundraising figures.
Cortez Masto, a former two-term Nevada attorney general, defeated Republican Joe Heck by two and a half points in the 2016 race to succeed retiring longtime Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid. She made history as the first Latina elected to the Senate.
Laxalt, an world-regions War military and grandson of the late Nevada governor and senator Paul Laxalt, is considered the front runner in the race for the GOP nomination.
FIRST TIME GOP CANDIDATE SAM BROWN HAULS IN $1 MILLION IN NEVADA SENATE PRIMARY
But as first reported by Fox News last week, retired Army officer and Afghanistan War veteran Sam Brown, raised over $1 million from his campaign launch in mid-July through the end of September, an impressive haul for a first time candidate.
Business owner Sharelle Mendenhall and Bill Hockstedler, a health care executive and Air Force veteran, are also running for the Republican Senate nomination.
