What the Nevada campaign is up against

Here's a look at the candidate who is running against Nevada's senior U.S. Senator, Catherine Cortez Masto.

The underlying story of Laxalt's life is familiar to Nevada voters. All of this came out when he ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2018. In that race, the Laxalt family he claims as relatives called him out as an imposter for adopting a good Nevada name to which he has only a marginal claim. 

However, the campaign to re-elect Cortez Masto will be tough. Nevadans are some of the most mobile people in the country. Huge numbers of them have no memory of Cortez Masto's 2016 campaign or Laxalt's well publicized opportunism. And Laxalt has gone full MAGA, a segment of the electorate of whom there are plenty around here.

So we knock doors ...