Incumbent Democrat Wins Nevada Senate Race

LAS VEGAS—Sen. Jacky Rosen (D.Nev) has won a second six-year stint in the Senate, defeating Republican challenger Sam Brown. The Associated Press called the race at 12:15 a.m. ET on Nov. 9, four days after Election Day.

Rosen’s shores up Democrats’ minority in the upper chamber after Republicans won control of the Senate on Election Night.

Rosen, 67, championed women’s rights, access to abortion, safeguarding Social Security and Medicaid during the campaign, saying Brown would support federal restrictions on abortion and cut spending on the entitlement programs.

Brown, 40, a West Point graduate and U.S. Army infantry officer who endured third-degree burns over 30 percent of his body when he was wounded in Afghanistan in 2008, campaigned as a common-sense moderate and labeled Rosen a liberal out of step with Nevadans.

He pointed to Rosen’s vote for 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act as a key igniter for boosting inflation and cited her compliance with the federal government’s immigration policies among progressive policies he’d undo.

Rosen entered the 2024 election cycle as one of 19 Democrats, along with four independents who caucus with them, holding seats in a Senate where Democrats held a 51–49 majority.

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She was one of 18 incumbents seeking re-election, favored in states that rating services like Cook Political Report and FiveThirtyEight deemed safe or leaning Democrat.

Polls tightened in the final days of the campaign, raising Republican hopes for an upset. Two of the four most recent surveys showed the race as a tie, while one had Brown leading for the first time in any poll.

Rosen’s campaign raised nearly twice as much money as Brown’s.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.