GOP combat vet Sam Brown calls in ground support for Nevada Senate bid

LAS VEGAS — Sam Brown, the combat veteran who survived massive burn injuries in Afghanistan in 2008, called in some high-powered ground support for his quest to unseat first-term Democratic Sen.Jacky Rosen.Sen.

John Kennedy (R-La.) joined Brown at a campaign office here Thursday to rally some three dozen volunteers in crucial get-out-the-vote efforts.In 2022, Democratic Nevada Sen.

Catherine Cortez Masto beat former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt by just 8,000 votes, an average of four ballots per precinct.The Louisiana lawmaker lauded Brown as someone who’d fight for Silver State residents while pursuing fiscal responsibility.“Sam Brown is tougher than a three-hour steak,” Kennedy declared.Brown is in a heated battle with Rosen.Her campaign accuses him of favoring an “extreme MAGA agenda.” In turn, the Reno-based Army vet says Rosen’s vote for the Biden-Harris administration’s spending bills substantially created the 5.2% unemployment here and hikes in rent, groceries and gas.He said President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris “introduced to us Bidenomics, and what that’s resulted in is that Nevadans, on average, are paying $1,200 or more a month now than they were four years ago.”Kennedy agreed, saying, “The people of Nevada do not deserve to have to sell blood plasma to go to the grocery store, and they don’t deserve to have to cash in their retirement account to pay their rent or to make their mortgage paid, and they’re scared.”Despite one recent poll showing an 11-point gap with Rosen, Brown — who former President Donald Trump has also endorsed — believes he will win.“Nevadans are stressed.

As you’ve seen and heard from across the state, people are driven to a point of desperation,” he said.“You will see a high turnout in this election, and when I’m across this state from city to city, town to town, mile after mile, people are furious with what has happened with this government and what it’s done to the...