Adam Laxalt defeated Afghanistan War veteran Sam Brown for the GOP nomination for Senate, and will face Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in November.
Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt will face Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in arace that could be pivotal in Republicans' efforts to win back control of the Senate.
Laxalt had 56% of the vote compared to first-time Senate candidate Adam Brown's 33% when the Associated Press called the race. Laxalt, who served as the state's attorney general from 2015-2019, was considered the front-runner in the race and was backed by bothBoth former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis backed Laxalt, Nevada’s former attorney general. But Brown won the Nevada Republican Party's endorsement in April.
Brown, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan who sustained serious injuries from a roadside bomb during a 2008 deployment, vowed to defend conservative principles in Washington, D.C., but said he would also
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