Battle-scarred vet Sam Brown could flip Nevada Senate seat red: Fired up and turning out

HENDERSON, Nev.— The relentless determination that powered 40-year-old Sam Brown through West Point, combat in Afghanistan and an arduous recovery from life-threatening burns on 30% of his body could see the Reno-based entrepreneur achieve another impressive triumph in a completely different field: unseating a Democratic senator.The retired Army captain, who Sen.

John Kennedy (R-La.) dubs “tougher than a three-hour steak,” walks into Election Day cheered thanks to internal surveys and a substantial lead in early GOP balloting and registrations — after months of public polling showed larger gaps with freshman Sen.Jacky Rosen.National Republicans invested more money in the Brown campaign in its waning days, and a top GOP leader — National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Steve Daines — campaigned here with Brown twice in the race’s final week.“It’s the energy, it’s the turnout,” Brown told The Post.

“We’re seeing Republicans turn out.We’re seeing really strong performance with our Latino community, our Asian-American, Pacific Islander community.

Young voters are fired up and turning out.”Among those “fired up” was a crowd of nearly 6,000 at a Trump campaign rally in this growing city adjacent to Las Vegas.Wearing a navy blazer as he spoke, Brown noted he hadn’t always dressed like that and spoken before large audiences.The candidate then removed the jacket and exposed a reflective vest like that trash collectors and warehouse workers wear.

It was an obvious allusion to President Biden’s hot-button description last week of Trump supporters as “garbage,” a line that launched a thousand memes and the 45th president riding to a Wisconsin rally in the passenger seat of a trash truck — wearing a work vest he kept on during the rally.The Henderson rally audience cheered its approval.Brown told The Post about his “day job” at an Amazon warehouse while starting a firm that supplied critical medications to veterans.H...