Incumbent Democrats completed a sweep Friday of three key swing seats in the western battleground state of Nevada that Republicans had targeted in their bid to take control of the U.S. House.
Reps. Dina Titus, Steven Horsford and Susie Lee all held off GOP challengers in close congressional races that attracted tens of millions of dollars in outside spending to Las Vegas and surrounding parts of southern Nevada.
Amodei, a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, has carried at least 58% of the vote since he won his first full term in a special election in 2011. His sprawling district includes Reno, Sparks and Carson City, as well as rural areas from south of Lake Tahoe to the Utah line. But she became convinced by Thursday night she had survived the challenge and issued a statement thanking her supporters.
"This is how Representative Democracy works," Robertson said in a written statement. "Though we came close, in the end, we were not able to overcome the ten-point registration advantage the Democrats have in this district." He became the first Black person to represent Nevada in Congress when he was first elected to the House in 2012. He lost in 2014 but now has won three in a row.
Lee told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that she believed many of Nevada's independent voters, roughly a third of the electorate, supported her.
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