In Context: Laxalt’s Comments on Latino Businesses
In the tight Senate race in Nevada, where nearly a third of the population is Latino, the campaigns of Republican challenger Adam Laxalt and Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto have been locked in a dispute over remarks Laxalt made about the impact of the pandemic on Latino jobs and businesses.
The Cortez Masto campaign claims that Laxalt “said it was ‘good news’ that small Latino businesses suffered during the pandemic because he thought it would benefit him politically.” But Laxalt’s campaign accuses its opponent of “deceptively editing audio” of his remarks, which it says were intended to make the point that Democrats are to blame for job losses and business closings.
A Spanish-language from the Cortez Masto campaign includes an audio clip of Laxalt (with captions in Spanish) saying, “I think the good news is that now we’re a year [unintelligible] … a lot of those jobs
