Following the confirmation of her re-election in the race against Republican Adam Laxalt and consolidating a majority of Democrats in the Senate for the second time, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) told supporters on Sunday that Nevadans "rejected far-right politicians working to divide us."

By winning the race for the Senate against Laxalt on Saturday, November 12, Cortez Masto assured the Democrats to definitively control the Senate in the next legislative session.

“This election Nevadans rejected the far-right politicians working to divide us. We rejected their conspiracies, their attacks on our workers and their efforts to restrict our freedoms”, said Cortez Masto at the Carpenters International Training Center in Las Vegas.

“As you all know, I don’t forget where I come from. I have a grandfather who came from Chihuahua, Mexico. Grandmother from Las Cruces, New Mexico, and they worked hard — they worked hard, and my parents worked hard in this community growing up here to support our family. It is the story of so many Latino families across our state. It’s a story of so many Latino families across the country”, the senator said.

“Cortez Masto’s remarks come as Democrats now head into the Georgia Senate runoff next month with an opportunity to expand their majority in the upper chamber as Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) faces off against Republican Herschel Walker”, according to The Hill publication.

Cortez Masto also tried to remind voters of Laxalt’s history as one of former President Donald Trump’s campaign co-chairs and accused him of pushing an “extreme agenda” and the kind of conspiracy theories that she said fueled the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to CNN.

“To me, it’s all about working families, making sure we're always fighting for them”, she told CNN.

Many Republicans, including several former President Trump nominees, have struggled this cycle in their general election contests, including in key states like Pennsylvania and Arizona. In Nevada, some controversial Republican candidates run for major office positions, such as Jim Marchant, an election denier who elected Joe Biden and who lost the race to be the state’s top electoral authority.