ASSUMING that her opponent fails to recover, Hillary Clinton can reach the White House even without Nevada, which polls suggest is in her grasp. Yet Nevada could hardly matter more to her. To achieve much as president Mrs Clinton will need a Democratic majority in the Senate, and her party’s path to retaking the Senate runs through Nevada, one of a few states that will decide the majority. And as in other swing states, its Senate race is on a knife-edge, thanks to a Republican candidate running ahead of Donald Trump.
Nevada’s contest carries a special charge because Democrats are defending the seat of their Senate leader, Harry Reid, a whisper-voiced partisan who is retiring, and who hand-picked his successor, Catherine Cortez Masto. The two main candidates are not obviously nasty people. The granddaughter of a Mexican immigrant, Ms Cortez Masto is a cautious, hardworking former state attorney-general, who was known for crossing party lines and would be the first Latina in the Senate. Her Republican opponent, Joe Heck, is a cautious, hardworking congressman, doctor and brigadier-general in the Army Reserve: “When America is Fighting for Its...Continue reading
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