Cortez Masto said she supports capitalism, predicts strong campaigns for Democrats under new

Cortez Masto said she supports capitalism, predicts strong campaigns for Democrats under new Democratic Socialist state party leadership


U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) walked a fine line between embracing and keeping herself at arm’s length from the Nevada Democratic Party one month after Democratic Socialist candidates took over the party’s leadership, touting the party’s prospects while also saying that she “believes in capitalism.”

“I am confident that the Nevada Democrats—that we—will run strong campaigns up and down the ticket in 2022,” she said in her first comments after the state Democratic Party’s recent leadership takeover by members of the Democratic Socialists of America, which typically oppose capitalism.

Her comments came in an interview with The Nevada Independent that covered several issues, including her support for boosting the corporate tax rate to pay for overhauling the nation's infrastructure. She also said she backs bringing back earmarks and enforcing the talking filibuster. She also discussed her push to keep nuclear waste out of Yucca Mountain "once and for all."

Cortez Masto’s 2022 re-election could be one of the most closely watched U.S. Senate races of the cycle. In the first quarter of the year, she raised $2.3 million, a Nevada record for federal office this early in the campaign cycle.

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