Nevada Democrats are aiming to focus on abortion as their winning message in November’s Senate race.
Just hours after Army veteran Sam Brown won the Republican Senate primary, Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) put out her first attack ad against him, going after his record on abortion. The ad, titled “Valerie,” featured a woman from Texas who traveled out of state to get an abortion, after which she moved to Nevada.
“Before Sam Brown ran for office in Nevada, he ran in Texas, where he pushed one of the most extreme abortion bans,” the ad said.
“Now I live in Nevada, and I cannot watch Sam Brown take away our rights here too,” the woman in the ad said.
Rosen also posted the ad on her X account, denouncing Brown as a “MAGA extremist.”
“MAGA extremist Sam Brown supported a radical abortion ban that forced women like Valerie to flee their home states to get vital medical care,” she said. “Now, he wants to bring his dangerous beliefs to Nevada. Sam Brown is a direct threat to Nevada’s reproductive freedom.”
Despite Democrats’ attempts to focus on the issue, Brown has insisted that he doesn’t intend to touch Nevada’s abortion law, which allows it up to 24 weeks. To back up his point, his wife revealed in a February interview with NBC News that she had an abortion for nonmedical reasons a week before meeting him. In the same interview that included the reveal, Brown pledged to “close the door” on a federal abortion ban.
Despite his stance, Brown predicted that Democrats would attempt to capitalize on the issue.
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“The law is stable and it’s not going anywhere,” he said. “But I have seen and I expect that some people will try to use falsehoods and fear to make it an issue that probably in reality shouldn’t be used as a wedge issue.”
Brown won the Republican primary on Tuesday in a landslide after former President Donald Trump endorsed him over his Trump-aligned rival, Jeff Gunter.