Adam Laxalt

Adam Laxalt isn't overpromising. The Nevada Republican, his party's leading candidate for Senate in the Silver State, offered a modest menu of agenda items he plans to pursue should the GOP win a majority of seats in the chamber in the midterm elections. Topping the list? Using control of the floor, and key Senate committees, to conduct aggressive oversight of President Joe Biden and his administration. Laxalt also would encourage the Republican majority he hopes to usher in to look deeper into the Russia investigation that consumed Washington during most of former President Donald Trump's term.

A former aide to Donald Trump will visit Las Vegas this weekend to help former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt campaign for U.S. Senate. In addition, a controversial Colorado congresswoman will also be in town at the same time for a fundraiser scheduled for Trump Tower. And another is planning a Reno visit later in the month.

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As Democrats hurry to pass massive their reconciliation spending bill on party lines, in part so they can have a major accomplishment to run on in the 2022 midterms, Republican Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt says their bill may help him win his race. "No one voted for a transformation...

U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt made a stop in the valley last week, spending some time at local eatery Mom’s Diner to speak with area residents as he ramps up his campaign for the 2022 election. “It was great, it’s wonderful to see so much support out there,” Laxalt told...

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate and former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt stopped in Elko on a campaign tour of Northern Nevada on Oct. 2, 2021. In an interview with the Elko Daily Free Press, he talked about his local campaign, priorities if the GOP takes control of the Senate in 2022, and his thoughts on Nevada's election laws.

ELKO – Adam Laxalt visited Elko Saturday on his campaign kick-off tour as a candidate for the U.S. Senate. Laxalt met with local Republicans at the Coffee Mug to wrap up the first day of his campaign tour in Northern Nevada. He spoke about his reasons for returning to the campaign trail in a bid to unseat incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev.

RENO, Nev. (KRNV) — Republican Senate hopeful Adam Laxalt kicked off his 10-day statewide campaign tour in Reno Friday morning with a broadside attack on incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, who he criticized for supporting a 'socialist' agenda. Laxalt, who was Nevada's attorney general from 2015 to 2019, spoke to...

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RENO, Nev. (KOLO) -Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt launched his long-expected bid for the U-S Senate Friday with a luncheon appearance at a south Reno restaurant. Laxalt worked a crowd of likely familiar faces, including a number of former and present GOP office holders and longtime party regulars. Then he gave them what they expected, a pitch aimed at the party faithful, casting the race as a key to stopping what he described as the left’s plan to transform America abandoning its traditional values.

RENO – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt set off on campaign tour of Nevada Friday, warning a hometown crowd of creeping left-wing hegemony and jousting with reporters seeking him to pin him down on his more outspoken positions. “The left has taken over virtually every major institution in this...

RENO, Nev. (KRNV) — Republican senate candidate Adam Laxalt is starting his 10-day statewide campaign tour on Friday. Laxalt, the former Nevada attorney general, will make his first stop at Famous Dave's BBQ in Reno for lunch on October 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The senate hopeful will...

Senate hopeful Adam Laxalt is set to begin a statewide tour this week. The former attorney general and gubernatorial candidate says he will start in Reno and visit all 17 Nevada counties over the first two weeks of October. During the first weekend he will stop in several parts of...

Federal court documents filed in New York's Southern District on Tuesday show prosecutors plan to call former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt to testify against an associate of Rudy Giuliani at an upcoming trial. The documents, obtained by 2 News, state that during Laxalt's 2018 campaign for Nevada governor, he...

Adam Laxalt, really? It is astounding that anyone would consider him for political office in Nevada. Maybe someone could enlighten me as to what his policies are as I haven’t heard any. What plans does he have if elected governor? So far, all I have heard is that he is angry about how Nevada has become California and how the socialists have taken over the state. I am not buying any of it.

As he prepares to make a run for the U.S. Senate next year, Republican Adam Laxalt’s anti-abortion views have pro-choice organizations up in arms. Laxalt was Nevada’s Attorney General from 2015 to 2019. He was defeated in his 2018 gubernatorial bid by Steve Sisolak. Now, he’s running to unseat Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in the Nov. 8, 2022 election.

Adam Laxalt’s Senate campaign recently unveiled a list of more than 30 Nevadans who had agreed to serve as campaign co-chairs, and some of the names were jarring to see. These were several former Nevada Republican leaders who built a reputation for responsible, constructive public service, yet now are supporting a candidate bearing the worst traits of a modern GOP that is subverting democracy, pitting Americans against each other and veering toward violence.

CARSON CITY–Politics are polarized and elections are nationalized, to the point that qualifications, merits, or flaws of people seeking House and Senate seats have become incidental to party affiliation. If one party is going to win, it’ll win, it seems, whether that party’s candidate is a competent and accomplished public servant or a grifting carnival barker.