Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, won Nevada’s Democratic Senate primary handily on Tuesday, setting up a tough battle in the battleground state’s general election in November.
The incumbent Democrat handily defeated opponents Troy Walker and Mike Shafer in the election.
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Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) spoke at a press conference at the East Vegas Library on June 16, 2023. (Madeline Carter/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
November will be Senator Rosen’s first re-election race, but her seat is not guaranteed. Nevada’s Senate race was rated “close” by a nonpartisan political handicapper earlier this year. Cook Political Report.
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Before running for the Senate in 2017, she represented Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District in the House of Representatives. Rosen said the late Harry Reid, a former Senate Majority Leader and Democratic leader, encouraged her to run for the Senate. She defeated incumbent Sen. Dean Heller, who was considered an underdog at the time.
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“He told me to think about it, and I did when I got home and spoke to my husband,” she said. Nevada Independent 2017.
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But Rosen now finds himself in a similar position to Heller’s: trying to defend his seat in a swing state that’s constantly in flux, and facing the challenge of running alongside President Biden, who is running at historically low approval ratings and at risk of losing Nevada in the general election.
Rosen’s race is one of three “close” Senate races, along with Ohio and Montana, and each one is between Democratic incumbents, putting him at a major disadvantage in the caucuses given that Republican incumbents are considered relatively safe.
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She will face off against the winner of a much more competitive Republican Senate primary in which former U.S. Army Captain Sam Brown is expected to be the front-runner. Brown was scouted and encouraged to run by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and received a belated endorsement from former President Trump just two days before the election. Trump withheld his endorsement throughout the primary campaign because Brown was running against former Trump administration official Jeff Gunter.
