Nevada Republicans did not see the “red wave” they were expecting in the 2022 midterms.

With 77 percent of precincts reporting, a majority of Nevada voters appear to have voted in favor of all three measures that appeared on the ballot on Tuesday.

A lot of attention is on the state of Nevada as multiple House and Senate seats remain in play with control of Congress on the line.

On a chilly morning in an east Las Vegas strip mall, Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto made a pitch she’s made dozens, if not hundreds, of times in the past few months:

In 2020 Lynn Manning John, a member of the Duck Valley Shoshone Paiute Tribe, in Owyhee, collected around five ballots from residents in the reservation and drove about 90 miles both ways to Elko to put them in an official drop box.

With the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June, the topic of abortion has been central to many Democrat’s campaigns, even in Nevada where the right to abortion is protected in state law.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is the first Latina to serve in the Senate, representing a majority-minority state with a 30%-and-growing Hispanic population. Those basic facts alone would be reason enough to assume that the first-term Democrat would buck traditional midterm trends and hang onto her seat next month.

Democrats are concerned enough about Hispanics gravitating to the GOP that they’re sending former President Barack Obama to Nevada.