Nevada’s Senate candidate from the Republican party, Adam Laxalt, has officially conceded defeat to his Democratic Party rival Catherine Cortez Masto.
He officially conceded his defeat to Democratic rival Masto today on Twitter and congratulated her on the win.
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith,” Laxalt said in his Twitter post.
While congratulating her opponent on her win, he thanked all his supporters and criticized the voting system demanding a change.
For the 2022 mid-term elections, he centred his campaign on issues like crime and inflation in the state.
Furthermore, the former Republican attorney general of Nevada opposed abortion rights and is a staunch supporter of controversial former US President Donald Trump.
During the 2020 US presidential elections, he supported former President Trump’s conspiracy theories of election fraud after he lost the election to President Joe Biden.
He went a step further, joining Trump campaign officials to overturn the state’s results which declared President Biden a winner by unsuccessfully stopping the early vote counting in Nevada’s most populous Clark County, which includes Las Vegas.
During the Senate elections, Laxalt led in majority polls to flip the senate seat towards Republican until last-minute vote-count results on Saturday, which gave the majority to his Democratic rival.
Laxalt lost by half a percentage of votes against his opponent.
The closely watched Senate race for the mid-terms was one of the last seats the Democratic Party craved to hold to gain a majority.
The last gain from Nevada will help Democrats some of their bills in the upper House without the 60-seat majority in the Senate with their 50-seat majority and a tie-breaker vote from Vice President Kamala Harris.
While Nevada was the last race to be counted by election officials, the race is not over for both parties as Georgia is headed to a runoff on Dec 6 due to neither Democratic nor Republican party candidate gaining 50 percent votes to win the majority.
Furthermore, while Democrats won the Senate, Republicans won the House with a razor-thin majority and Republican leader Kevin McCarthy.
The House election victory and Senate loss were a significant upset for Republicans who expected a red wave this year, considering President Joe Biden’s lower approval ratings and the economy’s current state.
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