Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Nevada, Adam Laxalt, is admitting that his chances of flipping the seat is slipping as more votes are being counted.
Laxalt is currently leading incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D) by about 870 votes. However, recent ballot release have been breaking heavily for Masto and there are thousands more Democratic friendly ballots from Democrat-leaning counties left to be counted.
“Here is where we are — we are up only 862 votes. Multiple days in a row, the mostly mail in ballots counted continue to break in higher DEM margins than we calculated. This has narrowed our victory window,” Laxalt wrote in a tweet on Saturday.
“The race will come down to 20-30K Election Day Clark drop off ballots,” he continued. “If they are GOP precincts or slightly DEM leaning then we can still win. If they continue to trend heavy DEM then she will overtake us.”
Democrat Mark Kelly was re-elected on Friday night in Arizona. If Democrats are able to hold on to the seat in Nevada then they would win control of the Senate and the Dec. 6 run off in Georgia between incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) and Herschel Walker would be to expand their majority in the upper chamber.
