Nevada stands alone as solely battleground with out a Senate debate earlier than midterms

The 2 candidates in one of many nation’s best Senate races haven’t any plans to debate earlier than Election Day, making the competition an anomaly amongst battleground states this 12 months.

With lower than 4 weeks till the Nov. 8 election, neither Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto nor her Republican challenger, Adam Laxalt, have given any signal of breaking a stalemate over whether or not they would meet head to head on stage.

Requested whether or not her marketing campaign anticipated her to debate Laxalt, a spokesman for Cortez Masto mentioned Wednesday: “We don’t, sadly.”

Every marketing campaign claimed it was the opposite facet’s fault.

“The senator was desirous to debate and accepted three statewide debates that, sadly, her opponent determined he wouldn’t take part in,” Cortez Masto’s spokesman Josh Marcus Clean mentioned.

In a latest assertion, Laxalt mentioned his opponent was responsible.

“I’ve accepted televised, statewide debate affords with two revered, impartial Nevada media shops: Sinclair Broadcast Group, which runs the Las Vegas and Reno NBC Stations, and Nevada Newsmakers,” Laxalt mentioned. “We hope that Catherine Cortez Masto will cease hiding and conform to at the very least one in every of them.”

With a sequence of latest polls exhibiting the candidates locked in a lifeless warmth, neither can afford to make a gaffe on the controversy stage that would flip off only a small fraction of the citizens. Cortez Masto is taken into account probably the most susceptible incumbent amongst Senate Democrats searching for re-election.

The end result of the Nevada race might decide the steadiness of energy within the Senate for the subsequent two years, making it all of the extra uncommon that voters are unlikely to see the 2 candidates face off in public.

Arizona Senate candidates met final week, whereas Georgia Senate hopefuls sq. off Friday. In Wisconsin, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes will meet this week for his or her second debate. Senate candidates in Ohio and North Carolina have already debated, whereas debates are scheduled for the candidates in Florida, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.

In June, Cortez Masto dedicated to 3 debates, one in every of which was to be broadcast on Spanish-language TV. The marketing campaign mentioned all three debates have formally been canceled.