Editor’s note: An earlier edition of this story was published on November 8, 2021, the Republican primary. We’re updating it here with more data and context for general election voters.
There are political discrepancies. There are crossing points.
Then the big lie.
Republicans have long pushed voter restriction legislation and made questionable claims about voter fraud, yet in the age of Trump, those flirtations turned into an all-out conspiracy known as the Big Lie — the baseless allegation that widespread voter fraud occurred in the United States and affected the final results of the last presidential election. Unlike supporting other policy positions, protecting the Big Lie undermines the foundations of American democracy and threatens to have permanent consequences for the country.
Many Republicans in the Nevada election in November reported at least some alignment with the Big Lie. Secretary of State candidate Jim Marchant has attracted the most attention, taking excessive positions, such as wondering about his own number one victory and denouncing the state’s popular early voting option. But it’s Adam Laxalt, the most sensible guy on the Republican price bill, who is the original face of the Big Lie in Nevada.
Laxalt is the grandson born in Reno and raised in Virginia to a former Nevada senator. He served one term as Nevada’s attorney general beginning in 2015, ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2018, and served as state co-chair for President Donald Trump’s re-election in 2020. election campaign. He is now challenging Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto in what is a close and beloved race seen across the country.
Especially since winning the Republican primary, Laxalt has tried to distance himself from the denial factor of the election, opting to blow up Cortez Masto on issues like inflation and crime. He has never berated Trump’s election lies, and gladly shared a rally scene with him in Minden, Nevada earlier this month.
The Big Lie demands scrutiny, starting with one of the precursors to the conspiracy. Below is a timeline of Adam Laxalt’s connection to Trumpism and the Big Lie. It is not exhaustive.
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2016, Republican presidential primary: Laxalt supports U. S. Sen. Ted Cruz in the primaries, but fully supports candidate Donald Trump once he secures the nomination. Along with U. S. Rep. Mark Amodei, Laxalt declared Trump “not perfect” but said he respects voters’ choice and fears a Hilary Clinton presidency.
November 8, 2016: Trump wins the presidency by getting all 270 electoral votes, but loses the popular vote of 2. 9 million. This activates him to claim without evidence that he would have won the popular vote without “the millions of other people who vote illegally. “”It points to undocumented immigrants as the source of alleged voter fraud.
Spring 2018: As the state’s number one election approaches, many Nevada Republican candidates embrace Trumpism and lean to the right in hopes of securing their enthusiastic base. Few candidates are as determined to dedicate themselves as Laxalt.
June 12, 2018: On the day of Nevada’s Republican number one, Trump is on social media to endorse Laxalt, who was already expected to easily win Republican number one for governor. “Adam is smart, works hard and knows how to win. “tweeted the president. ” He will be a wonderful governor. Plus, he’s going to fight hard to cut his taxes and be tough on crime!”
June 23, 2018: Trump travels to Las Vegas for the Nevada Republican Party state conference and a fundraiser for the then-senator. Dean Heller. Laxalt on social media posts a photo of his limousine ride with the president.
August 25, 2018: Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway opposes Laxalt in her Basque Fry and presents him as a “staunch defender” of the Trump administration’s policies.
October 20, 2018 – Trump visits Elko and queues for Laxalt and Republican candidates.
November 6, 2018: Laxalt loses to Steve Sisolak by nearly four thousand votes, or four percentage points. In his concession speech, Laxalt promises his for the governor-elect and asks his ers to do the same: “We want to come together as a state and make sure we can move Nevada forward. The election in total declares itself a “blue wave” with Democrats winning the ballot. Only one Republican wins a statewide race: incumbent Barbara Cegavske keeps her job as secretary of state.
October 22, 2019: Laxalt and Nevada State Assembly Minority Leader Robin Titus Named Nevada Co-Chairs for Trump’s 2020 Re-ElectionArray
February 21, 2020: Trump holds a rally in Las Vegas. Laxalt is helping to introduce the president.
March 24, 2020: Cegavske announces that Nevada will hold mail-in elections for the upcoming 2020 primary.
June 9, 2020 – Nevada’s number one takes place. Clark County’s nonpartisan registrar of voters, Joe Gloria, needs to expand the use of mail-in ballots for the general election. Democrats are calling for it publicly. Cegavske makes clear that he opposes and will not approve election plans with expanded mail-in ballots. Republicans, Laxalt adds, are multiplying stories of ballots piled up in trash cans and raising fears of widespread voter fraud imaginable, though there’s no evidence this happened.
July 31, 2020 – The Nevada State Legislature meets for a special consultation. The special consultation is closed to physical public participation due to COVID-19 protective measures, prompting complaints from Republicans. Lawmakers are temporarily approving AB4, which expands voter access to states of emergency, adding to the existing pandemic, by requiring counties to mail surveys to active registered voters, among other things. Laxalt on social media accused Democrats of “approving mail-in voting and poll collection” and “working to borrow our election. “”
August 3, 2020 — Sisolak AB4.
August 5, 2020: Trump and his company are suing the state of Nevada over AB4. Just over a month later, U. S. District Court JudgeU. S. James C. Mahan dismissed the case for lack of standing and wrote that the plaintiffs had proven nothing political disagreements. Mahan also notes that the plaintiffs “did not seek a court order or expedited review. The plaintiffs seek a solution to the “confusion” caused by AB 4, but have placed this case for a last-minute trial before the general election. . »
August 27, 2020 – Laxalt attends Trump’s Republican nomination acceptance speech for the White House.
Oct. 22, 2020: Trump’s crusade and the state’s GOP are suing for “meaningful observation” of the poll processing. Judge James Wilson Jr. will reject all of Trump’s claims, writing, “There is no evidence that a legally counted vote has been counted or not. There is no evidence that an election worker has done anything outside of law, policy, or procedure.
November 2, 2020 — Election Day. As vote counting drags on for several days in key states, Joe Biden wins the presidency, securing electoral votes and the vote. Trump loses. In Nevada, Biden won with 33,000 votes, or 2. 4 percentage points.
November 5, 2020 – Representative of the Laxalt and Trump crusade. Ric Grennell announces a new lawsuit aimed at preventing the counting of “irregular votes” and alleging “numerous irregularities”. He said he had already voted. ” A few days later, an election report of the Secretary of State’s workplace was made public, revealing that a state investigator spoke with Stokke on November 3. Stokke told the investigator that in the past he had informed Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said he believed a person was being evicted from his apartment and had his ballot stolen. Gloria told him she could only provide information about the possible flight and then vote tentatively. Stokke refused to do so. According to the state investigator, “I didn’t think I deserved to be stressed for implicating another user in a crime when I didn’t have proof that the crime actually happened. “
November 10, 2020: Laxalt appears on Fox News and repeats allegations made in Trump’s crusade lawsuits against Agilis signature verification devices used in Clark County. He says the crusade spoke with synthetic intelligence experts who decided that the device setup used in Clark County, combined with the quality of the signature photo below two hundred DPI, can result in incorrect signatures that go undetected through the system. He says those are facts “admitted in open court. “
The Agilis-focused benchmark lawsuits filed through Trump’s crusade have failed. Court documents come with statements from Agilis executives stating that a low-quality symbol would not be approved through the machine, it would be flagged for human review. Similarly, the parameter used across the county would produce substantially similar effects to the higher parameters. U. S. District Judge James T. Russell also found that the “expert testimony” provided through Trump’s crusade “had little to no value. “
“The candidates’ evidence does not identify through transparent and conclusive evidence, or through any popular evidence, that there was a malfunction of any voting machine, electronic token, counting device or computer sufficiently to generate moderate doubt about the final decision. “election results.
Nov. 12, 2020: Laxalt appears on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in his capacity as co-chair of Trump’s Nevada campaign and says he has a list of 3,000 others who left Nevada and still voted. His list cross-references Nevada’s electorate with the national address database update, but does not result in voter fraud, as state law allows other people to have recently moved and includes exemptions for the corps of army workers stationed elsewhere.
November 17, 2020: Laxalt writes an op-ed in the Review-Journal criticizing Democrats and Clark County’s nonpartisan voter registration, and falsely claims that there are “thousands of illegal votes consisting of a mix of dead voters, of state electors, dual electors (those who voted in Nevada and some other state), among other misplaced votes. No evidence is provided.
December 26, 2020: Laxalt tweets about skiing in Lake Tahoe. This will be your public post on the social media account in more than seven months.
Dec. 31, 2020: Laxalt, one of the attorneys who filed a lawsuit against Cegavske alleging that “many non-citizens would possibly have voted” in the 2020 Nevada election. The plaintiffs withdrew the lawsuit in March 2021.
January 6, 2021 — Uprising at the U. S. CapitolWhile many Republicans denounce the violence, Laxalt remains publicly silent.
March 4, 2021: The Nevada State Republican Party is filing charts saying 122,918 detailed voter court cases out of 40,669 reports of election integrity violations.
March 16, 2021 – The Secretary of State’s Office announces that it reviewed the boxes and discovered 3,963 alleged election integrity violations, some of which were already under investigation. He announces that he will examine these allegations.
April 22, 2021: Cegavske, a Republican, announces that her workplace has completed a review of alleged violations of election integrity and has found no evidence of the state party’s allegations of widespread voter fraud. A letter about the review said: “These and other allegations are largely uncovered in an incomplete assessment of voter registration records and the lack of data related to the processes through which those registers are compiled and maintained. “
August 11, 2021: Laxalt tweets for the first time that year. It is a promotion for the next occasion of Basque Fry of its political action committee. Invites Richard Grenell, a former Trump administration official who has one of the national faces of baseless allegations of voter fraud in the re-election campaign; Tom Cotton, the senator from Arkansas and the occasional Trump supporter; and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who, under the premise of the Big Lie, signed a questionable election bill, making it harder for the electorate to vote. The schedule makes it clear that after keeping a low profile for more than six months, Laxalt is not moving away from Trumpism.
August 14, 2021: In Basque Fry, Tom Cotton publicly confirms what has long been the subject of rumors: Laxalt plans Catherine Cortez Masto in the Senate.
August 16, 2021 – Laxalt officially presents his candidacy Cortez Masto.
August 21, 2021: Trump approves Laxalt. In his statement, the former president perpetuates false allegations of voter fraud: “Adam Laxalt is running for the Nevada Senate to defeat the handpicked successor of Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, and win a U. S. majority First in the U. S. Senate. “U. S. Adam is a Navy veteran who bravely served our country in Iraq. As a former attorney general, he has supported our law enforcement and the protection of our communities. He is strong in Secure Borders and defends America behind the radical left. Adam has my full and general approval!
August 21, 2021: In an interview with the Review-Journal, Laxalt rejects the Secretary of State’s April report that rejected allegations of Republican voter fraud on the grounds that Cegavske’s workplace had no way of knowing if major voter fraud had occurred because he failed to check the loads of thousands of mail-in ballots. It’s a point he made during the 2020 election season. The Office of the Secretary of State investigates individual reports of suspected voter fraud and does not actively seek fraud when fraud is not suspected through election officials. Laxalt also says his lawsuits failed because they “filed late” and in “a short period of time. “He continued, “And none of those prosecutions really had the ability to vet individual voters. “
Aug. 24, 2021: Laxalt tells right-wing radio host Wayne Allyn Root that his crusade “will do everything we can to try to secure this election, get as many observers as possible, and register lawsuits sooner, if there are lawsuits that we can file. “to review and tighten the choice.
September 2021: Laxalt reaches out to Douglas County Clerk and Treasurer Amy Burgans to inspire the rural county to conduct an audit of the results of the 2020 election, in an email Burgans sent to a Nevada Secretary of State official.
September 7, 2021 – After The Associated Press reported that more than a year before the election, Laxalt has already announced its goal of “filing lawsuits early,” Laxalt, in a tweet, declares “The media and the far left are on a offensive to attack those who need to make sure our elections are safe. fair and accurate.
September 19, 2021 – Interviewed in a right-wing media outlet, Laxalt denounces “that fateful January day,” referring not to the insurgents who stormed the Capitol on January 6 to forcibly nullify the effects of the presidential election, but to Trump’s ban. on Twitter for its for the insurgents.
October 1, 2021: At a crusade event, Laxalt acknowledges that Biden is president, but refuses to say whether she believes Biden was legitimately elected, according to media coverage.
November 15, 2021: One of the other people used through Laxalt and other Trump supporters for having evidence that polls of other dead people were cast in the 2020 election, Donald “Kirk” Hartle, pleads guilty to voter fraud for falsifying his deceased wife’s vote. Signature in a survey email. A year earlier, Hartle had publicly claimed that a poll for his deceased wife never made it to his home, but that his call was on the voter list.
January 24, 2022: Jim Marchant of Laxalt in the race for Secretary of State. This contrasts sharply with prominent Republicans and conservative media who would later nominate Democrat Cisco Aguilar because of Marchant’s excessive positions and voter denial.
February 2022: Laxalt tells The Associated Press he believes “very few” people broke the law on Jan. 6 and accuses Democrats and the media of exaggerating the event (more than 850 people have been charged with a crime). )
Feb. 4, 2022: In a crusade in Southern Nevada, Laxalt doesn’t say the 2020 election was rigged, but claims Nevada Democrats “fundamentally changed” election law 80 days before the election to “give Biden a greater chance. “This more measured message will continue its crusade, at least on larger and more well-publicized occasions.
March 2022: Laxalt is recorded telling his followers that he controls the election observer and develops a litigation strategy.
June 10, 2022: At a Laxalt crusade in Carson City, Donald Trump Jr. tells a crowd that Laxalt “answered the call,” referring to his father’s attempts to overturn the results of the Nevada election. “That kind of loyalty and understanding, that’s what I think we want to the fullest in Washington, D. C. ,” Trump Jr. continued.
June 14, 2022: Laxalt wins Republican number one for the U. S. Senate, defeating Sam Brown, with 55. 7% of the vote.
July 2022: Laxalt’s crusade announces it has hired Courtney Holland, a Nevada activist who was photographed with members of the far-right organization Oath Keepers on January 6. Some of those others have been charged with insurgency-like crimes. He has not been accused of anything, but has downplayed the scale of the insurgency and argued that the 2020 election was rigged.
September 2022: Laxalt refuses to answer a KTVN questionnaire asking if he will settle for the election results.
October 2022: Laxalt refuses to answer a Las Vegas Sun questionnaire asking whether applicants would settle for the effects of the midterm elections.
October 6, 2022: Cortez Masto organizes a crusade asking Laxalt for his role in instigating the January 6 uprising. Laxalt responds publicly.
October 8, 2022: Trump visits Minden to Laxalt and other Republican candidates. Laxalt doesn’t repeat election lies, but called Trump “a true champion of the other people of Nevada. “The biggest crowd I’ve ever seen?January 6.
by April Corbin Girnus, Nevada Updated on October 19, 2022
Editor’s note: An earlier edition of this story was published on November 8, 2021, the Republican primary. We’re updating it here with more data and context for general election voters.
There are political discrepancies. There are crossing points.
Then the big lie.
Republicans have long pushed voter restriction legislation and made questionable claims about voter fraud, yet in the age of Trump, those flirtations turned into an all-out conspiracy known as the Big Lie — the baseless allegation that widespread voter fraud occurred in the United States and affected the final results of the last presidential election. Unlike supporting other policy positions, protecting the Big Lie undermines the foundations of American democracy and threatens to have permanent consequences for the country.
Many Republicans in the Nevada election in November reported at least some alignment with the Big Lie. Secretary of State candidate Jim Marchant has attracted the most attention, taking excessive positions, such as wondering about his own number one victory and denouncing the state’s popular early voting option. But it’s Adam Laxalt, the most sensible guy on the Republican price bill, who is the original face of the Big Lie in Nevada.
Laxalt is the grandson born in Reno and raised in Virginia to a former Nevada senator. He served one term as Nevada’s attorney general beginning in 2015, ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2018, and served as state co-chair for President Donald Trump’s re-election in 2020. election campaign. He is now challenging Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto in what is a close and beloved race seen across the country.
Especially since winning the Republican primary, Laxalt has tried to distance himself from the denial factor of the election, opting to blow up Cortez Masto on issues like inflation and crime. He has never berated Trump’s election lies, and gladly shared a rally scene with him in Minden, Nevada earlier this month.
The Big Lie demands scrutiny, starting with one of the precursors to the conspiracy. Below is a timeline of Adam Laxalt’s connection to Trumpism and the Big Lie. It is not exhaustive.
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2016, Republican presidential primary: Laxalt supports U. S. Sen. Ted Cruz in the primaries, but fully supports candidate Donald Trump once he secures the nomination. Along with U. S. Rep. Mark Amodei, Laxalt declared Trump “not perfect” but said he respects voters’ choice and fears a Hilary Clinton presidency.
November 8, 2016: Trump wins the presidency by getting all 270 electoral votes, but loses the popular vote of 2. 9 million. This activates him to claim without evidence that he would have won the popular vote without “the millions of other people who vote illegally. “”It points to undocumented immigrants as the source of alleged voter fraud.
Spring 2018: As the state’s number one election approaches, many Nevada Republican candidates embrace Trumpism and lean to the right in hopes of securing their enthusiastic base. Few candidates are as determined to dedicate themselves as Laxalt.
June 12, 2018: On the day of Nevada’s Republican number one, Trump is on social media to endorse Laxalt, who was already expected to easily win Republican number one for governor. “Adam is smart, works hard and knows how to win. “tweeted the president. ” He will be a wonderful governor. Plus, he’s going to fight hard to cut his taxes and be tough on crime!”
June 23, 2018: Trump travels to Las Vegas for the Nevada Republican Party State Convention and a fundraiser for the then-senator. Dean Heller. Laxalt posted on social media a photo of his limousine trip with the president.
August 25, 2018: Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway opposes Laxalt in her Basque Fry and presents him as a “staunch defender” of the Trump administration’s policies.
October 20, 2018 – Trump visits Elko and queues for Laxalt and Republican candidates.
November 6, 2018: Laxalt loses to Steve Sisolak by nearly four thousand votes, or four percentage points. as a state and make sure we can move Nevada forward. The election in total is declared a “blue wave” with the Democrats winning the election. Only one Republican wins a statewide race: incumbent Barbara Cegavske keeps her job as secretary of state.
October 22, 2019: Laxalt and Nevada State Assembly Minority Leader Robin Titus Named Nevada Co-Chairs for Trump’s 2020 Re-ElectionArray
February 21, 2020: Trump holds a rally in Las Vegas. Laxalt is helping to introduce the president.
March 24, 2020: Cegavske announces that Nevada will hold mail-in elections for the upcoming 2020 primary.
June 9, 2020 – Nevada’s number one takes place. Clark County’s nonpartisan registrar of voters, Joe Gloria, needs to expand the use of mail-in ballots for the general election. Democrats are calling for it publicly. Cegavske makes clear that he opposes and will not approve election plans with expanded mail-in ballots. Republicans, Laxalt adds, are multiplying stories of ballots piled up in trash cans and raising fears of widespread voter fraud imaginable, though there’s no evidence this happened.
July 31, 2020 – The Nevada State Legislature meets for a special consultation. The special consultation is closed to physical public participation due to COVID-19 protective measures, prompting complaints from Republicans. Lawmakers are temporarily approving AB4, which expands voter access to states of emergency, adding to the existing pandemic, by requiring counties to mail surveys to active registered voters, among other things. Laxalt on social media accused Democrats of “approving mail-in voting and poll collection” and “working to borrow our election. “”
August 3, 2020 — Sisolak AB4.
August 5, 2020: Trump and his company are suing the state of Nevada over AB4. Just over a month later, U. S. District Court JudgeU. S. James C. Mahan dismissed the case for lack of standing and wrote that the plaintiffs had proven nothing political disagreements. Mahan also notes that the plaintiffs “did not seek a court order or expedited review. The plaintiffs seek a solution to the “confusion” caused by AB 4, but have placed this case for a last-minute trial before the general election. . »
August 27, 2020 – Laxalt attends Trump’s Republican nomination acceptance speech for the White House.
Oct. 22, 2020: Trump’s crusade and the state’s GOP are suing for “meaningful observation” of the poll processing. Judge James Wilson Jr. will reject all of Trump’s claims, writing, “There is no evidence that a legally counted vote has been counted or not. There is no evidence that an election worker has done anything outside of law, policy, or procedure.
November 2, 2020 — Election Day. As vote counting drags on for several days in key states, Joe Biden wins the presidency, securing electoral votes and the vote. Trump loses. In Nevada, Biden won with 33,000 votes, or 2. 4 percentage points.
November 5, 2020 – Representative of the Laxalt and Trump crusade. Ric Grennell announces a new lawsuit aimed at preventing the counting of “irregular votes” and alleging “numerous irregularities”. He said he had already voted. ” A few days later, an election report of the Secretary of State’s workplace was made public, revealing that a state investigator spoke with Stokke on November 3. Stokke told the investigator that in the past he had informed Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said he believed a person was being evicted from his apartment and had his ballot stolen. Gloria told him she could only provide information about the possible flight and then vote tentatively. Stokke refused to do so. According to the state investigator, “I didn’t think I deserved to be stressed for implicating another user in a crime when I didn’t have proof that the crime actually happened. “
November 10, 2020: Laxalt appears on Fox News and repeats allegations made in lawsuits from Trump’s crusade against Agilis signature verification devices used in Clark County. He says the crusade spoke with synthetic intelligence experts who decided that the device settings used in Clark County, combined with the photo quality of the signature below two hundred DPI, can lead to incorrect signatures that are not recognized. detected through the system. He says that these are facts “admitted in open court. “
The Agilis-focused benchmark lawsuits filed through Trump’s crusade have failed. Court documents come with statements from Agilis executives stating that a low-quality symbol would not be approved through the machine, it would be flagged for human review. Similarly, the parameter used across the county would produce substantially similar effects to the higher parameters. U. S. District Judge James T. Russell also found that the “expert testimony” provided through Trump’s crusade “had little to no value. “
“The candidates’ evidence does not identify through transparent and conclusive evidence, or through any popular evidence, that there was a malfunction of any voting machine, electronic token, counting device or computer sufficiently to generate moderate doubt about the final decision. “election results.
Nov. 12, 2020: Laxalt appears on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in his capacity as co-chair of Trump’s Nevada campaign and says he has a list of 3,000 others who left Nevada and still voted. His list cross-references Nevada’s electorate with the national address database update, but does not result in voter fraud, as state law allows other people to have recently moved and includes exemptions for the corps of army workers stationed elsewhere.
November 17, 2020: Laxalt writes an op-ed in the Review-Journal criticizing Democrats and Clark County’s nonpartisan voter registration, and falsely claims that there are “thousands of illegal votes consisting of a mix of dead voters, of state electors, dual electors (those who voted in Nevada and some other state), among other misplaced votes. No evidence is provided.
December 26, 2020: Laxalt tweets about skiing in Lake Tahoe. This will be your public post on the social media account in more than seven months.
Dec. 31, 2020: Laxalt, one of the attorneys who filed a lawsuit against Cegavske alleging that “many non-citizens would possibly have voted” in the 2020 Nevada election. The plaintiffs withdrew the lawsuit in March 2021.
January 6, 2021 — Uprising at the U. S. CapitolWhile many Republicans denounce the violence, Laxalt remains publicly silent.
March 4, 2021: The Nevada State Republican Party is filing charts saying 122,918 detailed voter court cases out of 40,669 reports of election integrity violations.
March 16, 2021 – The Secretary of State’s Office announces that it reviewed the boxes and discovered 3,963 alleged election integrity violations, some of which were already under investigation. He announces that he will examine these allegations.
April 22, 2021: Cegavske, a Republican, announces that her workplace has completed a review of alleged violations of election integrity and has found no evidence of the state party’s allegations of widespread voter fraud. A letter about the review said: “These and other allegations are largely uncovered in an incomplete assessment of voter registration records and the lack of data related to the processes through which those registers are compiled and maintained. “
August 11, 2021: Laxalt tweets for the first time that year. It is a promotion for the next occasion of Basque Fry of its political action committee. Invites Richard Grenell, a former Trump administration official who has one of the national faces of baseless allegations of voter fraud in the re-election campaign; Tom Cotton, the senator from Arkansas and the occasional Trump supporter; and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who, under the premise of the Big Lie, signed a questionable election bill, making it difficult for the electorate to vote. The schedule makes it clear that after keeping a low profile for more than six months, Laxalt is not moving away from Trumpism.
August 14, 2021: In Basque Fry, Tom Cotton publicly confirms what has long been the subject of rumors: Laxalt plans Catherine Cortez Masto in the Senate.
August 16, 2021 – Laxalt officially presents his candidacy Cortez Masto.
August 21, 2021: Trump approves Laxalt. In his statement, the former president perpetuates false allegations of voter fraud: “Adam Laxalt is running for the Nevada Senate to defeat the handpicked successor of Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, and win a U. S. majority First in the U. S. Senate. “U. S. Adam is a Navy veteran who bravely served our country in Iraq. As a former attorney general, he has supported our law enforcement and the protection of our communities. He is strong in Secure Borders and defends America behind the radical left. Adam has my full and general approval!
August 21, 2021: In an interview with the Review-Journal, Laxalt rejects the Secretary of State’s April report that rejected allegations of Republican voter fraud on the grounds that Cegavske’s workplace had no way of knowing if major voter fraud had occurred because he failed to check the loads of thousands of mail-in ballots. It’s a point he made during the 2020 election season. The Office of the Secretary of State investigates individual reports of suspected voter fraud and does not actively seek fraud when fraud is not suspected through election officials. Laxalt also says his lawsuits failed because they “filed late” and in “a short period of time. “He continued, “And none of those prosecutions really had the ability to vet individual voters. “
Aug. 24, 2021: Laxalt tells right-wing radio host Wayne Allyn Root that his crusade “will do everything we can to try to secure this election, get as many observers as possible, and register lawsuits sooner, if there are lawsuits that we can file. “to review and tighten the choice.
September 2021: Laxalt reaches out to Douglas County Clerk and Treasurer Amy Burgans to inspire the rural county to conduct an audit of the results of the 2020 election, in an email Burgans sent to a Nevada Secretary of State official.
September 7, 2021 – After The Associated Press reported that more than a year before the election, Laxalt has already announced its goal of “filing lawsuits early,” Laxalt, in a tweet, declares “The media and the far left are on a offensive to attack those who need to make sure our elections are safe. fair and accurate.
September 19, 2021 – Interviewed in a right-wing media outlet, Laxalt denounces “that fateful January day,” referring not to the insurgents who stormed the Capitol on January 6 to forcibly nullify the effects of the presidential election, but to Trump’s ban. on Twitter for its for the insurgents.
October 1, 2021: At a crusade event, Laxalt acknowledges that Biden is president, but refuses to say whether she believes Biden was legitimately elected, according to media coverage.
November 15, 2021: One of the other people used through Laxalt and other Trump supporters for having evidence that polls of other dead people were cast in the 2020 election, Donald “Kirk” Hartle, pleads guilty to voter fraud for falsifying his deceased wife’s vote. Signature in a survey email. A year earlier, Hartle had publicly claimed that a poll for his deceased wife never made it to his home, but that his call was on the voter list.
January 24, 2022: Jim Marchant of Laxalt in the race for Secretary of State. This contrasts sharply with prominent Republicans and the conservative media who would later become Democratic nominee Cisco Aguilar due to Marchant’s excessive positions and denial of the election.
February 2022: Laxalt tells The Associated Press he believes “very few” people broke the law on Jan. 6 and accuses Democrats and the media of exaggerating the event (more than 850 people have been charged with a crime). )
Feb. 4, 2022: In a crusade in Southern Nevada, Laxalt doesn’t say the 2020 election was rigged, but claims Nevada Democrats “fundamentally changed” election law 80 days before the election to “give Biden a greater chance. “This more measured message will continue its crusade, at least on larger and more well-publicized occasions.
March 2022: Laxalt is recorded telling his followers that he controls the election observer and develops a litigation strategy.
June 10, 2022: At a Laxalt crusade in Carson City, Donald Trump Jr. tells a crowd that Laxalt “answered the call,” referring to his father’s attempts to overturn the results of the Nevada election. “That kind of loyalty and understanding, that’s what I think we want to the fullest in Washington, D. C. ,” Trump Jr. continued.
June 14, 2022: Laxalt wins Republican number one for the U. S. Senate, defeating Sam Brown, with 55. 7% of the vote.
July 2022: Laxalt’s crusade announces it has hired Courtney Holland, a Nevada activist who was photographed with members of the far-right organization Oath Keepers on January 6. Some of those others have been charged with insurgency-like crimes. He has not been accused of anything, but has downplayed the scale of the insurgency and argued that the 2020 election was rigged.
September 2022: Laxalt refuses to answer a KTVN questionnaire asking if he will settle for the election results.
October 2022: Laxalt refuses to answer a Las Vegas Sun questionnaire asking whether applicants would settle for the effects of the midterm elections.
October 6, 2022: Cortez Masto organizes a crusade asking Laxalt for his role in instigating the January 6 uprising. Laxalt responds publicly.
October 8, 2022: Trump visits Minden to Laxalt and other Republican candidates. Laxalt doesn’t repeat election lies, but called Trump “a true champion of the other people of Nevada. “The biggest crowd I’ve ever seen?January 6.
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April Corbin Girnus is an award-winning journalist with a decade of media experience. She has served as editor-in-chief at the Las Vegas Sun, editor at LEO Weekly, Internet editor at Las Vegas Weekly, and blogger documenting North American Bike Sharing Systems efforts to increase ridership in underserved communities. As an occasional adjunct professor of journalism, April firmly rejects the concept that journalism is an insignificant subject. In the midst of the Great Recession, she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, where she was editor of the student newspaper. She earned a Master’s Degree in Media Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Media Management from the New School for Public Engagement. A fan of city limits, April enjoys coaching other people about Clark’s unincorporated County. She grew up in Sunrise Manor and lately lives in Paradise with her husband, 3 children and a dog.
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