“There should be consequences for people who undermine our democracy, who peddle the ‘Big Lie’ and conspiracy theories,” Nevada Sen. Cortez Masto says.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., speaks to supporters during a campaign event in Las Vegas on Oct. 20, 2022.RENO, Nev. — One day before early voting begins here, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto argued that voters should rebuke her GOP opponent at the ballot box for his role in promoting falsehoods about the 2020 election.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that Adam Laxalt, Donald Trump and others like them who peddled those lies and conspiracies right after the election fueled that violent mob,” Cortez Masto said, standing in the backyard of a GOP supporter in this key swing county. The Republicans in attendance all said they were backing the Democratic senator in part because of what they said was the dangerous rhetoric surrounding the 2020 election and Jan. 6 coming from some in their party.
"Adam Laxalt is busy pushing conspiracies and defending the absolutely indefensible," said Robert Cashell Jr. a lifelong Republican whose father was mayor of Reno and lieutenant governor.