LAS VEGAS — Sam Brown, a veteran who survived severe burns in Afghanistan in 2008, has called for strong ground support to unseat first-term Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) joined Mr. Brown at his campaign office here on Thursday, rallying about 30 volunteers for the crucial get-out-the-vote effort. In 2022, Democratic Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto defeated former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt by just 8,000 votes, an average difference of four votes per district.
Louisiana lawmakers praised Brown as someone who would fight for the people of the Silver State while pushing for fiscal responsibility.
“Sam Brown is tougher than a three-hour steak,” Kennedy declared.
Brown is having a tough battle with Rosen. Her campaign has accused her of supporting “extreme MAGA policies.” Meanwhile, the Reno-based Army veteran said Rosen's vote in favor of the Biden-Harris administration's spending bill would substantially reduce the 5.2% unemployment rate here and raise the price of rent, groceries and gas. It is stated that this occurred in
He said President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris “introduced Bidennomics to us, and as a result, Nevadans are now paying, on average, more than $1,200 a month compared to four years ago.” .
Kennedy agreed, saying, “Nevada residents don't deserve to have to sell their plasma to go to the grocery store or put cash into their retirement accounts to pay rent or pay their mortgage.'' I'm not even qualified.” , and they're scared.
Despite an 11-point lead over Rosen in one recent poll, Brown, who is backed by former President Donald Trump, believes he will win.
“Nevadaans are stressed. As we're seeing and hearing across the state, people are being pushed into desperate situations,” he said. “We're going to see a high turnout in this election. As I walk miles and miles around this state, city to city, town to town, people are wondering what happened with this government, and what happened with this government. They are furious at what was done to them.”
Brown said another poll showed a “only 1.5 point difference, and that feels much closer to what we're seeing on the ground.”
Kennedy said polls are less reliable now than they used to be.
“Right now, the public on both sides is so angry, especially about inflation, that a small but significant number of people, instead of answering calls from pollsters, are picking up the phone and just screwing it up. “I think it's pollsters,'' he said.
“I'm not an expert on a lot of things, but I've been doing polls for 30 years, and if you have 4% to 6% of people, even 3%, pollsters just to prank you.” “You can throw that away,'' he said.
Despite President Kennedy's encouragement of troops, one Brown supporter acknowledged it was an uphill battle.
“I think this is a tough seat,” Joanna Gorman of Summerlin told the Post. “I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't go our way, but we're trying to get out the vote.”
The former nutritionist and diabetes educator said she and others are working to increase Republican turnout.
“We're knocking, we're making phone calls, we're putting out so much information that we need to get voters out who didn't vote four years ago. That's our main focus. , Republicans and independents who did not attend,” Gorman said. “So I think the polls are underestimating Republicans overall, but this one is going to be a tough fight.”
John Ralston, an independent publisher in Nevada, the day after the Brown-Kennedy scandal. tweeted The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Republican Party's campaign arm that funds Senate races, said it has suspended ad purchases in Nevada until Election Day.
However, an NRSC spokesperson instructed the Post: Politico report In it, the group said it was shifting spending to “hybrid” ads that attack issues and boost candidates, arguing that such spending would have more advertising impact.
