April 14, 2022: Why Hispanic voters could cost Democrats Nevada

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🗓️ 14 April 2022

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In the coming weeks and months, we’ll be out covering the key districts and states that will decide the outcome of the midterm elections. Nevada has one of 2022’s most under-covered Senate races. The incumbent, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, keeps a low profile in Washington and back home, but she’s raised a record amount of money and is spending big on TV ads. Nevada has a famously transient population, so she’s started with a biographical spot to introduce herself to the hundreds of thousands of potential new voters who weren’t around when she was first elected in 2016. Her other messaging is straight from the Dems’ generic 2020 strategy for vulnerable senators: reminding voters of all that Covid relief money that kept businesses afloat. The political environment for Cortez Masto is brutal. Consider the latest poll, released this week from Suffolk University and the Reno Gazette Journal: Biden’s approval rating in the state was 35%. Cortez Masto would lose to either GOP nominee: 43-40 against the well-known Adam Laxalt, and 40-39 against the relatively unknown Sam Brown. 72% of Nevada voters said the economy was just fair or poor. Inflation is the top issue for voters — 40% of whom said they are worse off compared to four years ago. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Presented by Facebook.
0:02.9	Hey, good morning, Playbookers, I'm Rugu-Monovalin. It's Thursday.
0:07.1	In today's show, Wood Nevada can tell us about the dumbs chances in the midterms.
0:11.4	It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.
0:18.2	In the coming weeks and months, Team Playbook will be out covering the key districts and states
0:23.1	that will decide the outcome of the 2022 midterms.
0:26.3	Today's stop, Nevada, home of one of the most undercover Senate races this cycle.
0:31.3	Incumbent, Catherine Cortez Mastow keeps a low profile in Washington and back home.
0:36.4	But she's raised a record amount of money and is spending big on TV ads.
0:41.0	Nevada has a famously transient population.
0:43.5	So she started with the biographical spot to introduce herself to the hundreds of thousands
0:47.8	of potential new voters who weren't around when she was first elected back in 2016.
0:52.7	Her other messaging is straight from the Demp's strategy for vulnerable senators,
0:56.9	reminding voters of all that COVID relief money that kept businesses afloat.
1:01.2	Senator Cortez Mastow hasn't done much in-person campaigning yet,
1:05.0	but that will likely change once the GOP primary settled.
1:08.6	A rare McConnell-Trump combination pick, Adam Laxalt, who led the effort to overturn Nevada's 2020 presidential election results, is facing off against Sam Brown, a West Point grad, an army veteran who's severely injured in Afghanistan in 2008.
1:23.6	The political environment for Cortez Mastow is, in one word, brutal. Consider the latest poll
1:29.1	released this week from Suffolk University and the Reno Gazette Journal. Biden's approval
1:34.0	rating in the state was 35%. Cortez Masto would lose to either GOP nominee, 430 against the well-known
1:40.5	laxalt, and 4039 against a relatively unknown brown.
1:45.2	72% of Nevada voters said the economy was just fair or poor.
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