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LAS14

(13,783 posts) Tue Oct 13, 2020, 11:01 PM Oct 2020

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Do you know anything about this catherinecortezmasto????

I get a lot of e-mails from "her?" that tout patently false info about things Nate Silver or FiveThirtyEight (same, I know) are saying about some candidate, like "McGrath is tied with McConnell." Is this blatant fraud that I should report?

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Do you know anything about this catherinecortezmasto???? (Original Post) LAS14 Oct 2020 OP

senior United States senator from Nevada since 2017 elleng Oct 2020 #1

U.S. Senator from Nevada ? DURHAM D Oct 2020 #2

Might be a bot. Catherine Cortez-Masto is the senior senator from Nev. brush Oct 2020 #3

There was some 'made-up' endorsements circulating around Nevada recently... pecosbob Oct 2020 #4

elleng

(130,964 posts)

1. senior United States senator from Nevada since 2017

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Tue Oct 13, 2020, 11:03 PM

Oct 2020

senior United States senator from Nevada since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the 32nd attorney general of Nevada from 2007 to 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Cortez_Masto

DURHAM D

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2. U.S. Senator from Nevada ?

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Tue Oct 13, 2020, 11:03 PM

Oct 2020

brush

(53,785 posts)

3. Might be a bot. Catherine Cortez-Masto is the senior senator from Nev.

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Tue Oct 13, 2020, 11:04 PM

Oct 2020

She's a Democrat.

pecosbob

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4. There was some 'made-up' endorsements circulating around Nevada recently...

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Tue Oct 13, 2020, 11:19 PM

Oct 2020

made up by conservatives claiming to have the endorsement of Progressive groups.

https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2020/10/07/fake-democratic-chamber-website-set-up-to-endorse-conservatives/

As a certified lefty I would probably call her a conservadem, but nothing in there to alienate big-tenters.

Here's a story on her position on expanding the Naval Bombing Range here in Nevada as an example...

https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2020/10/13/cortez-masto-unveils-alternative-for-naval-air-station-expansion/

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