
2022 Nevada Senate race: Catherine Cortez Masto projected to defeat Adam Laxalt and win reelection
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Following a tight race, incumbent Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto has defeated Republican challenger Adam Laxalt to win reelection, CBS News projects. The projected win means that Democrats will retain control of the Senate, regardless of the outcome of the Georgia runoff between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker in December. 2022 Election Center: Live results of midterm elections
On Saturday, Cortez Mastro overtook Laxalt with a margin of just under 5,000 votes, with 96% of the results in, a margin of 0.5 percentage points.
Laxalt had been clinging to a small lead of under 1,000 votes going into Saturday. He had released a statement on Saturday morning which suggested he has some expectation she would surpass him.

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