Nevada’s Adam Laxalt Edging Up in the Polls, on the Basis of Actual Experience in Government

“If the election were held today I think Adam would win,” a political strategist tells the Sun of the Republican U.S. Senate nominee.

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The Republican Nevada Senate candidate, Adam Laxalt, August 4, 2022, at Las Vegas. AP/John Locher

As one of the few new GOP U.S. Senate nominees with experience in government, Nevada’s attorney general, Adam Laxalt, offers a glimpse into the sort of prospects Republicans could have been looking at in 2022.

From Reno in the northwest, Mr. Laxalt will be facing off against Senator Cortez Masto, the Democratic incumbent, from Las Vegas in the more populous southern portion of the state.

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