A tossup U.S. Senate seat in Nevada, one of five in which Republicans are focused on ousting Democratic incumbents they see as vulnerable, is among the November midterm races that could be influenced by voter response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s June repeal of Roe v. Wade.
First-term Democrat U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) is seeing a post-Roe bump in her hotly contested race with Republican former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt in one of the nation’s most-watched Senate races.
Cortez Masto leads Laxalt by 7 percentage points, 45 percent to 38 percent, according to a statewide Aug. 14-17 Suffolk University/Reno Gazette-Journal survey of 500 likely Nevada voters. That’s a 10-point swing to Cortez Masto’s favor from an April poll that showed Laxalt, endorsed by former President Donald Trump and supported by his former U.S. Navy colleague, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, leading by 3 percentage points….