10:17pm est on Nov 12th.
The Democrats kept control of the Senate with 50 seats and sent another Donald Trump-endorsed candidate to the Senate.
There is a campaign event in Las Vegas.
The race was called by the Associated Press after mail-in ballots from the Las Vegas area were counted.
Cortez Masto, the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants and the daughter of a former influential Clark County Commissioner, was elected in 2016 by a slim two-point margin to fill a seat that had been vacant.
The grandson of a senator and governor, Laxalt helped push the false claim that Trump won the election.
The polls in the race showed a neck-and-necked contest in the month before Election Day, with Laxalt carrying a 1.4 point advantage as of Monday.
There are two Senate races that are not decided. In a December 6 runoff, Georgia voters will decide the fate of Republican candidate Herschel Walker and Democratic senator Raphael Warnock. If neither candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, the race will go to a second round. If that is the case, Tshibaka and Murkowski would square off in a one-on-one round, with the second choices of voters redistributed based on the ranked-choice system.
In the final days of the campaign, the first Latina elected to the Senate leaned into her Latino roots and made a strong push to get the demographic to vote for her. The 14 Laxalt family members who endorsed her and cast Laxalt as a 2020 election denier were spotlighted in ads. Laxalt linked Cortez Masto to two top voter concerns, crime rates and inflation, and accused her of voting for federal spending packages linked to rising prices.
Democratic Rep. Susie Lee defeated Republican April Becker with 51.6% of the vote in the Nevada House race. Mark Amodei won his race against Elizabeth Krause with more than 60 percent of the vote.
The two billionaires are helping with the election.
Jimmy cut the ad for Cortez Masto in Nevada because he acknowledged his political views had hurt his ratings.
A new poll shows that the Senate race in Nevada is too close to call.
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