Current Position: US Senator since 2017
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Nevada attorney general from 2006 – 2014

Masto worked four years as a civil attorney in Las Vegas and two years as a criminal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C.

Masot became the first woman elected to represent Nevada in the Senate and the first Latina elected to serve in the upper chamber.  In November 2003, Cortez Masto was named executive vice chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education.

Quotes:
Wildfires are devastating the West, and today I joined @ClimatePower and @ChiefDave_RFD
to call for action on climate. I’m leading legislation in Congress to combat wildfires back home, but it’s going to take all of us to address the climate crisis and protect our planet.

Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s full speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention

The 2022 United States Senate election in Nevada will be held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Nevada.

Incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto was first elected in 2016 with 47.1% of the vote, holding a seat left open by former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. She has stated she will run for a second term. Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt is the Republican challenger.

Source: Wikipedia

Current Position: Attorney General since 2015
Affiliation: Republican
Candidate: 2023 US Senator

Adam Paul Laxalt (born August 31, 1978)[1] is an American attorney and politician. A Republican, he served as the 33rd Nevada attorney general from 2015 to 2019.

Laxalt is the son of former U.S. Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico and grandson of former Nevada governor and U.S. senator Paul Laxalt. He graduated from Georgetown University and its law school before working as an aide to then-Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John R. Bolton and Virginia U.S. Senator John Warner. He worked as a lawyer in private practice and was a member of the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps from 2005 to 2010.

Laxalt was elected Attorney General of Nevada, holding the position for one term, from January 2015 to January 2019. In this role, he challenged federal environmental protection regulations, opposed some gun regulations, filed legal briefs in support of laws restricting abortion, and opposed a multi-state investigation into ExxonMobil’s role in climate change. He unsuccessfully ran for governor of Nevada in 2018, losing to Democrat Steve Sisolak. Laxalt was co-chairman of Donald Trump’s 2020 unsuccessful re-election campaign in Nevada. After Trump lost the 2020 election and refused to concede, Trump and Laxalt made false claims of large-scale fraud in Nevada’s election and sought to overturn the election results. He is the Republican nominee for the 2022 United States Senate election in Nevada.