Ex-Nevada AG Adam Laxalt files to run for US Senate

Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt has filed to tally for a spot successful the U.S. Senate.

The Sunday filing with the Federal Election Commission further confirms Laxalt’s long-expected bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.

If determination was immoderate uncertainty astir whether Laxalt would run, Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas erased it astatine a governmental fundraiser successful Northern Nevada connected Saturday.

“Right now, the Democrats are successful complaint successful Washington, but we’re gonna alteration that travel 2022, and that alteration starts close present successful Nevada erstwhile Adam Laxalt sends Cathy Cortez Masto packing location for Nevada,” Cotton said astatine the Laxalt-sponsored Basque Fry successful Gardnerville.

Laxalt, who unsuccessfully ran for politician successful 2018, made nary notation to his expected candidacy astatine the event, but Cotton said the erstwhile lawyer wide would astir apt person an “exciting announcement successful the days ahead.”

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