Senator from Nevada. Jacky Rosen He has narrowly defended his Senate seat after a tough re-election battle against Republican Army veteran Sam Brown, The Associated Press projects.

Rosen’s victory over Brown was declared by the AP early Saturday, November 9, when the Democratic candidate had obtained 47.8% of the votes at the time of the call. Brown had 46.4%.

His victory marks a crucial victory for Senate Democrats, who suffered heavy losses in Mountain, Ohio, Pennsylvania and W.V. this year and now you will have the minority in the 119th Congress.

Heading into Election Day, the Democratic Party narrowly controlled the Senate by a 51-49 margin.

Rosen, 67, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016 and the U.S. Senate in 2018. She is a first-generation college student, former computer programmer, and previously served as president of the largest synagogue in Nevada, according to her. campaign website.

Rosen became the second woman to represent Nevada in the Senate and the first former synagogue president to serve in the Senate when she was elected. During her tenure, she has been recognized as “one of the chamber’s most bipartisan senators,” according to a independent ranking on your campaign site.

Rosen has lived in Nevada for more than 40 years and shares a daughter with her husband, Larry.

His opponent, Brown, won the nomination with a shorter political resume, after unsuccessful attempts in the primaries for seats in the Texas House of Representatives in 2014 and in the United States Senate in 2021.

However, the Purple Heart recipient arrived with what The New York Times described as an “extraordinary story”. Brown was a West Point graduate and Army infantry officer deployed to Afghanistan in 2008, who was nearly killed when a roadside bomb detonated beneath his vehicle, injuring him and beginning what would become a three-year journey of intense rehabilitation. . He medically retired from the military as a captain in 2011.

During his recovery, Brown married U.S. Army First Lieutenant Amy Larsen, his burn unit dietitian, and the couple welcomed three children together.

“Knowing that his Army career had come to an end, Sam understood that if he was going to rededicate his life to service, he would have to take a different path,” said his campaign website saying. He went on to study business, launched a company that provides emergency pharmaceutical support to veterans outside the VA, and sold it in 2022.

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According The Nevada IndependentBrown is an Arkansas native who had lived in Texas since 2008 before moving to Nevada with his family in 2018. He was endorsed by donald trumpthe Republican presidential candidate, in June.