Nevada Democrat makes Senate re-election bid official

Nevada U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen introduced Monday at a union corridor in Las Vegas that she has formally filed for reelection in a presidential battleground state that may be a high GOP goal in a difficult 2024 Senate map.

The first-term average Democrat launched her marketing campaign for a second time period final yr, and 10 Republican challengers have crowded the sphere to oppose her. Rosen has not drawn a top-name Democratic opponent.

Rosen was launched by leaders of plumbers and pipefitters, firefighters, electrical staff and the highly effective native lodge employee unions and informed members their backing goes to be key to retaining Democratic management of the Senate “and stopping those MAGA Republicans from arguing every single bill.”

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She additionally put the abortion debate on the heart of her remarks. Democrats nationally have tried to focus voters on the Supreme Court determination in June 2022 to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade determination that legalized the appropriate to finish a being pregnant.

U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, speaks throughout a information convention on June 16, 2023, on the East Vegas Library.  (Madeline Carter/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service by way of Getty Images)

“I am never going to back down when it comes to our reproductive rights, which are at risk,” Rosen stated.

GOP hopefuls within the Senate race embrace Sam Brown, a retired Army captain who ran for Senate in 2022 and has backing from get together leaders in Washington, D.C.

His marketing campaign supervisor, Faith Jones, tied Rosen to Biden in a press release crucial of unemployment, housing, and meals and grocery prices.

Other GOP challengers embrace Jim Marchant, who misplaced a run for Nevada secretary of state in 2022 after rising as an outspoken denier of Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election win over former President Donald Trump.

A Marchant marketing campaign aide didn’t reply to messages about Rosen’s announcement.

Trump misplaced Nevada in 2020 by greater than 30,000 votes to Biden, regardless of authorized challenges from Republicans and marketing campaign aides who claimed however didn’t present proof of election irregularities.

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Nevada’s different U.S. senator, Catherine Cortez Masto, is a Democrat who was reelected in November 2022.