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      Democrat Cisco Aguilar defeats election denier in Nevada secretary of state race

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      Democrat Cisco Aguilar defeats election denier in Nevada secretary of state raceVictory over Republican Jim Marchant for state’s top elections post is significant win against efforts to sow doubt in US elections Cisco Aguilar, a Democrat, was elected Nevada’s top election official, beating Jim Marchant, a Republican who is linked to the QAnon sought to spread misinformation about the results of the 2020 race.His victory is a significant win against efforts to sow doubt in US elections, a growing force in the Republican party.The Nevada secretary of state race was one of the most competitive in the country and closely watched because of Marchant’s extreme views. It was also one of several contests in which Republican candidates who questioned the election results were running to be the top election official in their state.Marchant, a former state lawmaker, said during the campaign that if he and other like-minded secretary of states were elected, Donald Trump would be re-elected in 2024. He has also said that Nevada elections are run by a “cabal”, and that Nevadans haven’t elected a president in over a decade.He also has pushed Nevada counties to adopt risky and costly hand counts of ballots and leads the America First Secretary of State coalition, a group of secretary of state candidates running for key election positions who pledged to overturn the 2020 race.Aguilar had never run for elected office, but cast himself as a defender of Nevada’s democracy. His campaign emphasized the extremist threat Marchant posed. He far outraised Marchant and was much more present on the campaign trail.TopicsUS midterm elections 2022NevadaUS politicsDemocratsnewsReuse this content More

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      Catherine Cortez Masto wins Nevada Senate race to hold Democrat seat

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      Catherine Cortez Masto wins Nevada Senate race to hold Democrat seatThe race was among the tightest in the country and saw record spending with the incumbent senator nearly beaten

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      Senator Catherine Cortez Masto managed to hang on to her seat in a close race that nearly saw her beaten by her Republican adversary, with the result leaving control of the US Senate in the hands of Democrats.After Democratic senator Mark Kelly’s victory in Arizona on Friday, the party now holds a 50-49 edge in the Senate. The Democratic party will retain control of the chamber, no matter how next month’s Georgia runoff plays out, by virtue of vice-president Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote.Democrats retain control of Senate after crucial victory in NevadaRead moreCortez Masto, America’s first Latina senator, beat out Adam Laxalt, a former Nevada attorney general who aided in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to the Associated Press.The race was among the tightest in the country and saw record spending with $158m on TV ads, $15m raised for Laxalt and $52m for Cortez Masto. The contest was crucial for Democrats to maintain control of the Senate, along with races in Pennsylvania and Arizona Democrat wins.Nevada’s vote count took several days partly because of the mail voting system created by the state Legislature in 2020 that requires counties to accept ballots postmarked by election day if they arrive up to four days later. Laxalt had an early lead that dwindled after late-counted ballots came in from the state’s population centers in Las Vegas and Reno. High-profile Democrats had joined efforts to re-elect Cortez Masto in recent days, with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama making appearances with the senator. Cortez Masto also had the backing of 14 members of Laxalt’s family, who said she “possesses a set of qualities that clearly speak of what we like to call ‘Nevada grit’”.Democrats had dialed up efforts to reach voters with the state party contacting thousands of voters, and the local culinary union – which backed Democratic candidates – knocking on 1m doors in the state of 3 million people.Associated Press contributed to this reportTopicsUS midterm elections 2022US SenateNevadaUS politicsDemocratsRepublicansnewsReuse this content More

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      Democrats pin Senate hopes on Nevada as count continues in key races

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      Democrats pin Senate hopes on Nevada as count continues in key racesRepublican Adam Laxalt’s lead over Catherine Cortez Masto shrinks in race that could hand Democrats control of chamber After the Democrat Mark Kelly was declared the winner of his Senate re-election race in Arizona, the outcome of a tight race in Nevada will determine whether Democrats can secure a majority in the upper congressional chamber without having to hold their breath until the December runoff in Georgia.The race between Nevada’s Democratic incumbent, Catherine Cortez Masto, and her Republican challenger Adam Laxalt, the state’s former attorney general, got even closer on Saturday when a batch of counted votes were reported. Just 862 votes make up Laxalt’s lead. About 25,000 mail-in ballots and 15,000 ballots that need “curing”, or correcting by the voter, have yet to be reported.Laxalt tweeted on Saturday morning that that the race appeared to be inching away from his favor.“We are up only 862 votes. Multiple days in a row, the mostly mail-in ballots counted continue to break in higher Dem margins than we calculated. This has narrowed our victory window,” he said.How the fall of Roe shattered Republicans’ midterm dreamsRead moreThe bulk of the remaining ballots will come from Clark county, home to largely Democratic Las Vegas. Drop-off and mail-in ballots for the race so far have also favored Cortez Masto, upping the chances that she will keep her seat.If Democrats win this seat in Nevada, they – along with Democratic-leaning independents – will have 50 seats in the Senate. The vice-president, Kamala Harris, who presides over the Senate, can serve as a tie-breaker in any 50-50 votes.Many of the remaining ballots are expected to be counted and reported by Saturday, though the deadline for counting the remaining ballots is on Tuesday.Even after the Nevada race is called, one race remains in Georgia, where the Democratic incumbent, Raphael Warnock, and his Republican challenger, the former football star Herschel Walker, will head into a runoff election on 6 December. Republicans have clinched 49 seats in the Senate so far.Meanwhile, control of the US House of Representatives remained in flux on Saturday, with 25 races yet to be called on Saturday afternoon. Republicans have a lead over Democrats, with 211 seats to Democrats’ 199. Though Democrats are still down 12 seats compared with Republicans, the party has had a surprisingly strong turnout this midterm election. To have the majority, a party needs 218 seats.House races still need to be called in eight states, including in Arizona, California and Washington, where votes for close races are still being counted. The political analyst Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report said in a tweet on Saturday that Democrats would need to win each of six toss-up races in order to get a majority.TopicsUS midterm elections 2022US politicsNevadaUS SenateUS CongressnewsReuse this content More

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      Joe Lombardo, Trump-backed Republican sheriff, wins Nevada governor race

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      Joe Lombardo, Trump-backed Republican sheriff, wins Nevada governor race Lombardo, a career police officer, defeats Democrat Steve Sisolak to regain governorship for GOP Republican Joe Lombardo, a career police officer and sheriff in Las Vegas who was endorsed by Donald Trump, has been elected governor in Nevada.Lombardo defeated Steve Sisolak, regaining the governorship for the GOP and making Sisolak a one-term Democrat amid two decades of Republicans.“It appears we will fall a percentage point or so short of winning,” Sisolak said in a statement conceding the race to Lombardo shortly after a batch of vote results was reported in Clark county. “That is why I reached out to the sheriff to wish him success.”All eyes on Nevada and Arizona as Senate control hangs in balanceRead moreThe count of ballots in Nevada took several days partly due to a provision of a broad mail voting law passed by the state legislature in 2020. It requires counties to accept ballots postmarked by election day if they arrive up to four days later.Lombardo, 60, started as a police officer in Las Vegas in 1988 and served two terms as Clark county sheriff, the nonpartisan elected head of the Las Vegas metropolitan police department, the largest police agency in the state.He weathered campaign attacks on rising crime by acknowledging the increase during the last two years and blaming funding limits and mandates from a Democratic-controlled legislature.Lombardo sometimes distanced himself from Trump during the campaign, and never offered an endorsement of unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was marred by fraud. Lombardo said during his only campaign debate with Sisolak that any irregularities were not enough to change the outcome of the election.Lombardo, who emerged for the general election from a crowded GOP primary field, derided a state public health insurance option that the legislature passed and Sisolak signed, and said he looks at abortion through a “pro-life lens”.But he acknowledged that state law approved by Nevada voters in 1990 allows abortions up to 24 weeks into pregnancy. “There’s nothing the governor can do,” he said, to change that law.TopicsUS midterm elections 2022NevadaRepublicansDonald TrumpUS politicsnewsReuse this content More