{"id":1715199,"date":"2022-10-28T14:19:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T18:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1715199"},"modified":"2022-10-28T14:19:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T18:19:11","slug":"radioactive-cortez-masto-avoids-biden-embraces-imagine-dragons-in-crucial-senate-races-final-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/radioactive-cortez-masto-avoids-biden-embraces-imagine-dragons-in-crucial-senate-races-final-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"RADIOACTIVE: Cortez Masto Avoids Biden, Embraces Imagine Dragons in Crucial Senate Race\u2019s Final Stretch"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fradioactive-cortez-masto-avoids-biden-embraces-imagine-dragons-in-crucial-senate-races-final-stretch%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=1715199&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> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Nevada Dem campaigns with drummer of band described as &#8216;far beyond terrible&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 October 28, 2022 2:14 pm  <\/p>\n<p>For Nevada Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, unpopular president Joe Biden is a bit too radioactive to bring to the state for a campaign rally. So with Election Day less than two weeks away, the embattled senator is turning to another high-profile surrogate: the drummer from pop rock band Imagine Dragons.<\/p>\n<p>The profitable percussionist, Daniel Platzman, joined Cortez Masto at a Thursday night event at downtown Las Vegas&#8217;s ReBar. Platzman <a href=\"https:\/\/news3lv.com\/news\/local\/imagine-dragons-drummer-helps-campaign-for-senator-catherine-cortez-masto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the city&#8217;s NBC affiliate it was &#8220;very exciting&#8221; to appear alongside the senator, who is embroiled in a high-profile reelection bid against Republican Adam Laxalt. Cortez Masto herself did not appear in the local outlet&#8217;s coverage of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez Masto&#8217;s decision to campaign with Platzman comes just days after the incumbent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2022\/10\/24\/democrat-sen-cortez-masto-refuses-campaign-joe-biden-nevada\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refused to say<\/a> whether she would do the same with Biden. Asked by ABC&#8217;s Rachel Scott if she would &#8220;campaign with President Biden&#8221; during a Monday Good Morning America segment, Cortez Masto gave a non-answer, saying that while Biden is &#8220;welcome&#8221; in her state, her &#8220;focus is on getting out and talking to Nevadans.&#8221; Biden visited a trio of western states roughly two weeks ago but did not stop in Nevada, a state he won by roughly 2 points in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Two years after that narrow win, Biden&#8217;s political standing in the Silver State is considerably diminished. Just 39 percent of Nevadans approve of Biden&#8217;s job as president, compared with 53 percent who disapprove, <a href=\"https:\/\/civiqs.com\/results\/approve_president_biden?uncertainty=true&#038;annotations=true&#038;zoomIn=true&#038;home_state=Nevada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> Civiqs. It&#8217;s unclear, however, if Platzman and his fellow Imagine Dragon bandmates enjoy more support than the historically unpopular president.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the band&#8217;s award-winning 2012 debut studio album, Night Visions, Imagine Dragons has faced intense criticism for its turn to repetitive, pop-oriented, platitude-filled tracks. In 2019, for example, music publication Spin published an Imagine Dragons takedown under the headline, &#8220;Is Imagine Dragons The Worst Band Ever?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imagine Dragons&#8217; music is aggressively unpleasant, and it&#8217;s only natural to grasp for something even louder to distract oneself,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2019\/01\/imagine-dragons-worst-band-halftime-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece<\/a> says. &#8220;Imagine Dragons are somewhere far beyond terrible. \u2026 The lyrics, a composite of motivational platitudes and pseudo-dramatic yelps, barely merit repeating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cortez Masto, who did not return a request for comment, will nevertheless hope that the event with Platzman reverses a string of bad polls and carries her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Nevada Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, unpopular president Joe Biden is a bit too radioactive to bring to the state for a campaign rally. So with Election Day less than two weeks away, the embattled senator is turning to another high-profile surrogate: the drummer from pop rock band Imagine Dragons.<br \/>\nThe post RADIOACTIVE: Cortez Masto Avoids Biden, Embraces Imagine Dragons in Crucial Senate Race\u2019s Final Stretch appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1715202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1715202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}