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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Democratic Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto is launching a new ad pushing back against suggestions that she didn't keep the state safe as attorney general.
Cortez Masto's campaign announced the commercial on Friday, after the National Republican Senatorial Committee linked her to rising rates of rape, murder and robbery in her second four-year term.
Her rebuttal cites a Politifact Nevada fact-check that labeled the NRSC's commercial "mostly false" and said crime rates have more to do with local law enforcement than state attorneys general. Cortez Masto's ad says the total number of reported crimes in Nevada dropped from her first year to her last as the top law enforcement officer.
The NRSC stood by their ad, saying she failed to protect families.
Cortez Masto faces Republican Rep. Joe Heck.
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