Before that, she was president of a prominent Jewish synagogue in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson. She was a first-term congresswoman from a Las Vegas-area district when she defeated GOP Sen. Some residents of rural communities have pushed back against solar projects, saying the added infrastructure could harm the surrounding communities and local environments.Īn ally handpicked by legendary Nevada Democrat Harry Reid to run for his former Senate seat, Rosen has steered a moderate path during her first term in the chamber. Then Brown shifted to local concerns, criticizing Rosen’s support for solar projects in Nevada, a state that is leading the charge in manufacturing the form of renewable energy. He railed against teachers unions and pinned Nevada’s low national rankings in education on Rosen and federal policies. At campaign stops, he often told the story of the bomb that hit him, the dozens of surgeries that followed, the leadership he learned while in the Army and his Christian faith and sacrifice - “suffering that builds our endurance.”īrown struck a similar message on Monday, running on broad conservative tenets such as support for increased border security, law enforcement and more parental control of K-12 education curriculum. Brown’s first campaign came in 2014, when he unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Texas state Legislature.īrown campaigned on the slogan of “Duty First” in 2022 and founded the Duty First PAC after his loss to support conservative candidates. He finished second in the Republican primary to former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt, who went on to lose the general election to Democratic Sen. Democrats are facing a challenging 2024 Senate map, where they must defend incumbents not only in red states - Montana, Ohio and West Virginia - but also in multiple swing states.īrown, who was nearly killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan that scarred his face, made military service central to his unsuccessful 2022 Senate campaign.
Rosen, a first-term moderate in a presidential battleground state, is one of Republicans’ top targets in 2024. He will face a challenge in the Republican primary from Jim Marchant, a former state Assembly member who lost last year’s race for Nevada secretary of state after promoting Donald Trump’s lies of a stolen 2020 election. And she is carrying out their mission instead of ours.”īrown, a Purple Heart recipient, was a heavily recruited candidate for Republicans in Washington looking to avoid a repeat of their lackluster showing in last year’s midterms, when flawed GOP candidates helped Democrats win battleground races and hold on to the Senate majority. “She is a foot soldier for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer,” Brown said in a warehouse where fans and shade helped shield more than 100 supporters from the summer heat. In a nearly 30-minute speech Monday afternoon in the city of Sparks, which neighbors Reno, Brown spoke of his military background and family devotion while repeatedly casting himself as an outsider fighting against “Rosen and her D.C.
Senate candidacy official on Monday, jumping into the race to take on Democratic incumbent Jacky Rosen a year after losing the Republican nomination to challenge Nevada’s other U.S.
0 kommentar(er)
