Focus: Republican gubernatorial candidate and Attorney General Adam Laxalt

Who’s paying for it: Nevada Families First, an affiliate of the Democratic Governors Association

Size of buy: Six figures

When it starts: Oct. 23

Where it’s running: Statewide

The gist: The ad says what’s at stake this election is “simple: your health care.”

It says if Adam Laxalt had his way, insurance companies could deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, citing Laxalt’s strong opposition to Obamacare — which implemented pre-existing conditions protections — during his 2014 campaign.

“Your future in the hands of insurance companies. Allowing them to deny care. Bankrupting families. Adam Laxalt would be governor for the insurance industry,” the narrator says. “If he wins, you lose.”

Laxalt still criticizes Obamacare, but in recent weeks said he wants to preserve protections for pre-existing conditions. His mom also filmed an ad in which she reveals she has multiple sclerosis and argues that her son would not roll back protections.

But Laxalt has not said how he would keep the protections if he also wants the law repealed. A bill backed by Sen. Dean Heller that purports to offer such protection absent Obamacare, for example, has gaps that would still allow insurers to deny treatment of a pre-existing condition even if they're still technically covering the person with the condition.

Watch the ad below: