Catherine Cortez Masto's doggedness pays off for Nevada Democrats

[Tactical Peek]

Source: MSNBC

Nov. 12, 2022, 8:15 PM CST
By James Downie, MSNBC Opinion Columnist

Nevada's Catherine Cortez Masto has been re-elected to the U.S. Senate, NBC News projects. The state's Democrats have frequently outperformed expectations in recent elections, and history repeated itself Tuesday, with Cortez Masto defeating Republican Adam Laxalt for a second term.

The first Latina elected to the Senate, Cortez Masto served two terms as the state's attorney general. Observers have long described her as a "workhorse," and in 2016, retiring Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid endorsed her as his successor. With that backing came Reid's top-drawer turnout machine, which, along with a similar operation run by the Culinary Workers Union, has driven Democrats to frequently outperform pre-election polls.

Cortez Masto's doggedness and those turnout operations helped her win election to the Senate in 2016, and re-election on Tuesday, despite Nevada's above-average inflation and unemployment rates.

In her second term, expect Cortez Masto to buck the party at times: According to FiveThirtyEight, she voted with President Joe Biden less than any Democrat other than Sens. Jon Tester of Montana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and tied with her fellow Nevadan Jacky Rosen. But that doesn't mean she'll be a thorn in the party's side: During the campaign, Cortez Masto touted Democratic achievements like the Inflation Reduction Act and hammered Laxalt on abortion. Her success could be a model for purple-state Democrats going forward.



Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/catherine-cortez-masto-wins-nevada-senate-election-2022-midterms-n1300391

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50 SENATE SEATS, DONE

[calimary]

1. WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

The Senate remains OURS.

[SouthernDem4ever]

2. Great News!!

We have to keep the momentum going for the next two years and increase that.

[Demovictory9]

3. She emailed me ( California) three times a day..

[LeftInTX]

13. Many times a day. Her and Maggie Hassan

[hlthe2b]

4. THank DOG!

[DippyDem]

5. Yay we keep control of Senate!! nt

[IronLionZion]

6. Oh hell yes!

I just saw that her vote count is up with around 5,000 vote difference over Laxalt. She did it in a difficult swing state.

Dems have the Senate majority before the Georgia runoff! And our side is still excited to elect Warnock while the other side doesn't care as much about Walker since he's such an idiot.

[Scrivener7]

7. She DID it!!!!!

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Outperformed

I'm thinking it's the unionized casino workers. Labor knows who to support.

[nycbos]

9. Raise a glass to the culinary workers union.

[Upthevibe]

10. Tactical Peek !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HardPort]

11. Big Win!! Especially considering how much she outperformed Sisolak. Do not fuck with a strong Latina

[comradebillyboy]

12. Woo Hoo

[DemocraticPatriot]

14. This one was my biggest worry, since the late "polls"

mostly seemed to show Laxalt winning....

Of course, they were mostly "junk Republican polls", it would seem---

or pollster "error" was to our advantage, this time!
(There were factors that predicted this undercounting of new Democratic votes)


Love it!!!!

[FakeNoose]

15. Woo-hoo! There is a God and he does love Nevada!

This is awesome news. Congratulations Senator Cortez-Mastro and Nevada Dems!

[Cha]

16. This is the BEST NEWS!! I expected

it to e All Over DU when it was official but I can hardly find anything!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

20. Yeah, I'm just learning she might be another Manchin or Sinema, but your reminder

about one of the ways simply having the technical majority in the Senate is a damn good thing helps.

[republianmushroom]

18. Oh, damn, do I like it

[The Grand Illuminist]

19. Could've primary someone better.

Blue dogs can be a great nuisances.

[Marthe48]

22. Democrats held the line

I scanned through replies to this post and there is some negativity. We are not electing robots. We are electing DEMOCRATS! All of the hard work, the lack of support from media and corporations, the attacks by rwnj, in spite of all of that, we kept the majority in the Senate! At this point, if there are things the Senate can vote on, we will have up to 50 Democrats, maybe soon, up to 51, up to 2 Independents, and possibly some r's who have broken the poisonous spell.

We can't stop striving, but this is a monumentous victory. It will give us heart to keep on keepin on.

[republianmushroom]

23. YES

[The Third Doctor]

24. Thank goodness

I've read up on her opponent he's insane.