Trump-backed Adam Laxalt wins GOP Senate primary in Nevada, will face Democratic incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto.
Laxalt, the Nevada attorney general from 2015 to 2019 who vociferously opposed the 2020 election results, had for months stood as the presumed shoo-in for the party’s nomination. But in recent weeks, Brown had emerged as an insurgent outsider, building grassroots support and closing the gap in polling.led the effort
It was more than enough to hold off Brown, who, in an interview with NBC News on Tuesday in Las Vegas before the polls closed, vowed to support Laxalt if he won, and work to unite Republicans in the state. By Tuesday, however, the contest had boiled down to the might of national MAGA figures for Laxalt against Brown, who'd garnered more than 40,000 individual contributors with his posture as an outsider and his harrowing personal story of a near-death experience in Afghanistan that left him disfigured. Brown was endorsed by the state Republican Party and kept pace with Laxalt’s fundraising, pulling in $4 million to Laxalt’s $5.9 million.
“People are looking for representatives and leaders who are not seeking to divide or to make themselves more of a celebrity, but to actually go to work for people,” he said.
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