{"id":1506300,"date":"2022-06-07T10:19:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506300"},"modified":"2022-06-07T10:20:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:20:06","slug":"nevada-gop-senate-candidates-team-silent-on-attacks-against-opponents-parentage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-gop-senate-candidates-team-silent-on-attacks-against-opponents-parentage\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada GOP Senate Candidate\u2019s Team Silent On Attacks Against Opponent\u2019s Parentage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnevada-gop-senate-candidates-team-silent-on-attacks-against-opponents-parentage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506300&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>With one week until the Nevada primary, opponents of GOP Senate candidate Adam Laxalt are remaining silent as fellow supporters of another candidate go after Laxalt\u2019s parentage. <\/p>\n<p>Nearly 10 years ago, former Republican New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2013\/02\/20\/172498747\/former-sen-domenici-reveals-son-born-in-secrecy\">revealed<\/a> he had fathered a son with Michelle Laxalt outside of his marriage in the 1970s. That son is Adam. Michelle is the daughter of another prominent western politician, Paul Laxalt, who served Nevada as governor and senator.<\/p>\n<p>In tweets throughout the race, George Harris, a former state party chairman who supports another GOP Senate candidate, Sam Brown, went after the Trump-endorsed former attorney general for going by the last name Laxalt has used his entire life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShouldn\u2019t [Adam Laxalt] be [Adam Paul Domenici]?\u201d Harris wrote in an October <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mayorharris\/status\/1451398976637267970?s=20&#038;t=S6JgOIJCBOFX-tKDZWlpxA\">tweet<\/a>. \u201cJust thinking out loud, I mean his Dad was U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, what ever happen to truth in advertising?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/George-Harris-Tweet-One.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273574\" width=\"553\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/George-Harris-Tweet-One.jpg 899w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/George-Harris-Tweet-One-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/George-Harris-Tweet-One-768x308-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI just like honesty,\u201d Harris wrote in another post. \u201cAdam is a Domenici, not a Laxalt. If your gonna vote\u2026vote for a Hero Sam Brown.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/George-Harris-Tweet-Two.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273575\" width=\"572\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/George-Harris-Tweet-Two.jpg 889w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/George-Harris-Tweet-Two-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/George-Harris-Tweet-Two-768x329-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Brown\u2019s campaign did not respond to The Federalist\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Federalist, Harris was unrepentant and said the questions were entirely legitimate. He cited an open letter published in the Reno Gazette-Journal by a dozen Laxalt family members opposing Adam\u2019s 2018 bid for governor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are writing as members of the Laxalt family who have spent our lives in Nevada, and feel compelled to protect our family name from being leveraged and exploited by Adam Laxalt, the Republican candidate for governor,\u201d they wrote, criticizing the candidate for having been raised around Washington D.C. as opposed to Reno, where he was born.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>If he responds to this column at all, it will probably be to say that he hardly knows the people writing this column. And in many ways that would be true. We never had a chance to get to know him, really \u2014 he spent his life in Washington, D.C., while we lived in Northern Nevada and grew up in public schools and on public lands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgj.com\/story\/opinion\/voices\/2018\/10\/23\/laxalt-family-members-respond-say-adam-laxalt-protect-nevadas-values\/1745651002\/\">letter<\/a> was published by 22 Laxalt family members a day later in the same paper, condemning the public criticism as \u201ca vicious and entirely baseless attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only do the authors get basic facts wrong about Adam\u2019s history in Nevada, they also completely misrepresent his service to our state and our country,\u201d they wrote. \u201cWe could not be more proud of his service as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, his commitment to keeping our country safe while serving in Iraq, his service as a professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, and his continued dedication to service as attorney general.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris told The Federalist he donated $1,000 to Brown\u2019s Senate bid, but beyond public advocacy had no formal role with the campaign. On Laxalt\u2019s name, Harris said, \u201cit\u2019s absolutely fair game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the one who decided to run for office. When you run for office, whatever\u2019s in your background is fair game,\u201d Harris told The Federalist. \u201cI\u2019m sorry I hurt his little feelings, maybe he can put his big boy pants on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laxalt, Harris said, continues to go by Laxalt \u201cprobably because it\u2019s very embarrassing for his mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t acceptable to go out with a married man back then,\u201d Harris added. <\/p>\n<p>Reed Galen, the co-founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/02\/12\/lincoln-project-scandal-468984\">scandal-ridden<\/a> Lincoln Project, also took aim at Laxalt for going by his mother\u2019s name as opposed to Domenici.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do you keep using someone else\u2019s name?\u201d Galen asked on Twitter. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Lincoln Project also did not respond to The Federalist\u2019s inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>In a post sent to Laxalt\u2019s followers last week, Laxalt\u2019s mother, Michelle, condemned the attacks as the \u201clowest of the low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI raised Adam as a single mother. As with any son born without a father, he took my last name. Adam had no idea who his biological father was until he was an adult,\u201d she wrote. \u201cAs the son of a single mother, Adam struggled for years with challenges that many similarly situated people experience. We did our best. I am proud of Adam-he has overcome much to become a proud father, husband, veteran, and our state\u2019s 33rd Attorney General.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With one week until the Nevada primary, opponents of GOP Senate candidate Adam Laxalt are remaining silent as fellow supporters of another candidate go after Laxalt\u2019s parentage. 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