Nevada senator Catherine Cortez Masto trails her GOP rival Adam Laxalt in the polls. Her defeat could be devastating for President Biden’s agenda and the Democratic Party’s future. RossBarkan writes
for as much as 20 percent of the electorate in Nevada, and Cortez Masto has been emphasizing her heritage far more than she has in the past, running ads about her Mexican grandfather and pouring resources into aggressive Latino outreach. Democrats have been accused ofin the 2020 election, allowing Trump to run up significant gains in Spanish-speaking counties, yet Cortez Masto’s campaign is well aware of the perils of losing their margins with Latinos.
The Nevada Senate race can be seen as a test of whether Democrats can find a way to halt GOP gains with Latinos and compete somehow in the rural reaches of the country; Biden won Las Vegas but was crushed in the state’s sparsely populated counties. It is also a referendum on whether the statewide Democratic machine Reid built can truly outlive him.
Another, within Nevada, is Democratic unity itself. After Senator Bernie Sanders defeated Biden in the 2020 Nevada caucuses, allies of the Vermont leftist successfully took over the state Democratic Party, beating back the Reid allies who had run the party in coordination with his own political organization. The Reid machine, now overseen by Cortez Masto and Steve Sisolak, the Democratic governor,with the state party over money, policy direction, and voter data.
At stake, too, is not merely the Senate. Sisolak, the governor, could lose his reelection bid. Three of Nevada’s four House seats are held by Democrats. All couldto Republicans. Democrats wouldn’t be doomed in the state — a presidential year may offer a return to power for some — but it would be the sort of grievous blow Reid labored to prevent for decades. He certainly longed for more than one term for the woman occupying his storied Senate seat.
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