Battle for Senate control pits Cortez Masto against Sands & Station
WASHINGTON — Nevada’s senior senator is working overtime to turn the U.S. Senate from red to blue this fall, but her hometown industry has other plans.
In June, casino magnate and GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, gave $25 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, a “super PAC” run by allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) It aims to “protect and expand” Republican control of the Senate — a goal Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is working against as head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, or DSCC.
Control of the Senate is up in the air, but Democrats have the political winds at their backs in a year marked by public health and economic crises.
The numbers also work to Democrats’ advantage: They’re defending a dozen seats, only two of which are seen as in danger. Republicans are defending nearly twice as many, about 10 of which are seen as vulnerable.
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