retired Army Capt. Sam Brown of Nevada, who ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2022 but amassed grassroots support within the Republican Party, is likely to soon announce that he will challenge Democratic US Sen. Jacky Rosen, who is up for re-election .
An invitation sent Wednesday by Brown to potential supporters and obtained by NBC News a July 10 ad from Brown states: “Join us for an event in support of Sam Brown as you consider running to represent him.”
Brown is considering a run for the US Senate seat, a source with knowledge of the event said.
Former Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt recently told NBC News that he would not be running for office. Laxalt, who lost to Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto in the 2022 midterms, defeated Brown in that year’s primary.
But Brown still generated grassroots enthusiasm in the Nevada Republican Party, even attracting tens of thousands of small dollar donations. In his primary bid, Brown won at least three opinion polls, including one conducted by the Nevada state Republican Party.
Brown suffered severe burns after an IED blast in 2008 while serving in Afghanistan. He left it partially disfigured and drew on that personal experience in his first run for the Senate.
in a ad titled “Duty” who ran last year, said, “I was not born into power. I’m from small town America, where duty and service still matter.”
A visibly scarred Brown described how a “Taliban bomb almost killed him” in Afghanistan and that “after 30 surgeries, years of recovery, it turns out I’m hard to kill.”
Jim Marchant, who promoted former President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about the 2020 election results and lost his 2022 run for Nevada secretary of state, is also running for the Republican Senate nomination.
