Nevada's Jacky Rosen Preserves Another Democratic Senate Seat After Trump Wins State's Electoral College Votes

Mar. 15, 2025

(Right) Sen. Jacky Rosen at the Carpenters International Training Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on Dec. 8, 2023; (Right) Sam Brown at a campaign event for J.D. Vance in Henderson, Nevada on July 30, 2024.Photo:Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty; WADE VANDERVORT/AFP via Getty

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty; WADE VANDERVORT/AFP via Getty

Nevada Sen.Jacky Rosenhas narrowly defended her Senate seat following a tough reelection battle against Republican Army veteran Sam Brown, The Associated Press projects.

Her victory marks a crucial win for Senate Democrats, who suffered major losses inMontana,Ohio,PennsylvaniaandWest Virginiathis year andwill now have the minorityin the 119th Congress.

Sen. Jacky Rosen at a campaign event for President Joe Biden on Feb. 4, 2024 in Las Vegas.Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty

Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty

Rosen, 67, was elected to the U.S. House in 2016 and the U.S. Senate in 2018. She is a first-generation college student, former computer programmer and previously served as president of Nevada’s largest synagogue, according to hercampaign website.

Rosen became the second woman to represent Nevada in the Senate and the first former synagogue president to serve in the Senate when she was elected. During her tenure, she has been recognized as “one of the most bipartisan Senators in the chamber,” per anindependent rankingon her campaign site.

Rosen has lived in Nevada for more than 40 years and shares a daughter with her husband, Larry.

Her opponent, Brown, hit the ticket with a leaner political resume, following unsuccessful pursuits at the primaries for seats in the Texas House of Representatives in 2014 and U.S. Senate in 2021.

However, the Purple Heart recipient came in with whatThe New York Timesdescribed as an “extraordinary story.” Brown was a West Point graduate and Army Infantry Officer deployed to Afghanistan in 2008 who nearly died when a roadside bomb detonated beneath his vehicle, injuring him and beginning what would become a three-year journey of intense rehabilitation. He medically retired from the military as a Captain in 2011.

Sam Brown at a campaign event for J.D. Vance in Henderson, Nevada on July 30, 2024.WADE VANDERVORT/AFP via Getty

WADE VANDERVORT/AFP via Getty

During his recovery, Brown married U.S. Army First Lieutenant Amy Larsen, his Burn Unit Dietitian, and the couple welcomed three children together.

“Knowing that his career in the military had come to an end, Sam understood that if he was going to rededicate his life to service, he would have to take a different path,” hiscampaign websitesaid. He pivoted to studying business, launched a company providing emergency pharmaceutical support to veterans outside the VA and sold it in 2022.

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source: people.com