(The Center Square) – Nevada’s U.S. Senate race was too close to call Tuesday night.
With 76% of precincts reporting, Republican Sam Brown led Democratic incumbent Jacky Rosen by 7,927 votes.
If Brown pulls through, another seat in the U.S. Senate will flip Republican.
Brown has not held a political office before, but identifies as a veteran, businessman, husband and father. He is a Purple Heart recipient and survived a bomb detonation in Afghanistan. His website said that “during the process of recovery, Brown recognized that God had given him a new life. A life that was intended to be dedicated to the service of God and Country,” reads his campaign website.
Brown’s priorities include increasing veteran services, lowering inflation, securing the border and protecting the Second Amendment.
Rosen’s priorities in the Senate will remain to be what she has already been working on during her time in D.C., of which she said on her campaign site: lowering costs, expanding access to healthcare, increasing affordable housing, creating abortion access and securing the border.
Examples of how Rosen has worked on these priorities in Washington include her work to pass a law that caps the price of insulin at $35 per month for seniors, co-authoring the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, leading the effort to secure $3 billion for the high-speed rail project from Las Vegas to Southern California and securing $500 million for Nevada to create more affordable housing options.
When it comes to reproductive freedom, Rosen has introduced the Women’s Health Protection Act which would codify the protections of Roe v. Wade into federal law.
For Southern border legislation, Rosen has voted to deliver billions of dollars in resources to improve border security and help pass bipartisan laws to stop the flow of fentanyl. She also worked to create and said that she plans to vote into law the Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act which failed in the Senate after Trump spoke out against it. The $118 billion bill would have expanded detention facilities and hired more border control agents, asylum officers and immigration judges.