Trump flips Nevada as Democrat Jacky Rosen holds on to state’s Senate seat

Donald Trump has gained his sixth battleground state of the 2024 election, flipping the state for the Republicans early on Saturday, by beating Kamala Harris in Nevada.

Trump gained by 51% of the vote to the Democrat’s 47%, the primary time the GOP has gained the state within the presidential vote because the 2004 election gained by George W Bush.

However Democrats took a crumb of consolation from the truth that Democratic US Senator Jacky Rosen gained re-election in Nevada, which was additionally known as early on Saturday.

The president-elect has 301 electoral school votes to date, properly past the 270 level he surpassed early on Wednesday to take the White Home, over Democratic rival Kamala Harris, and the Republican has now gained six of the seven battleground states. On Saturday morning solely Arizona remained to be known as.

The Related Press declared Trump the winner in Nevada after concluding there weren’t sufficient uncounted ballots within the state’s strongest Democratic areas to beat the previous president’s 46,000-vote lead over the Democratic nominee.

The AP, which additionally known as the Senate seat for the first-term Democrat, solely declares a winner as soon as it might probably decide {that a} trailing candidate can’t shut the hole and overtake the vote chief.

Rosen’s defeat of a Trump-endorsed challenger gave some consolation to her social gathering, though the Democrats have already misplaced their skinny majority within the US Senate, whereas maintaining hope alive that they’ll take a majority within the Home. Her race was tighter than the one for the White Home, and he or she held off Republican challenger Sam Brown with 48% of the votes solid to his 46%.

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Rosen, a former Las Vegas-area synagogue president and laptop programmer, ran adverts touting herself as an impartial who doesn’t hearken to “social gathering leaders”.

“Thanks, Nevada! I’m honored and grateful to proceed serving as your United States Senator,” Rosen posted on the social platform X.

Rosen had been polling forward of Brown all through the marketing campaign, although the race tightened as election day approached.

Rosen ran an energetic marketing campaign, specializing in hyper-local points in a state the place greater than a 3rd of voters determine as non-partisan and attacking her opponent’s shifting stance on abortion rights.

Rosen was hand-picked to run for Congress after which the Senate – seemingly out of nowhere – by Harry Reid, the previous Democratic Senate chief from Nevada who helped reshape the state’s politics over his lengthy political profession. In 2018 – after serving simply two years in Congress – she unseated the Republican senator Dean Heller with a five-point margin.

A former member of the Nevada’s Culinary Employees Union, she maintained the help of the state’s politically highly effective unions this time round as properly, with the Culinary Union knocking on practically 1m doorways on behalf of her marketing campaign.

In her closing message to voters, Rosen targeted on abortion rights, positioning herself as a champion of reproductive freedoms, and pointed to her opponent’s waffling on the difficulty and refusal to voice help for the poll measure. Although abortion stays authorized in Nevada, a poll proposal to enshrine the fitting within the structure was deeply standard.

In the meantime Brown, a navy veteran and Purple Coronary heart recipient, was sluggish to realize traction and outline his platform within the lead-up to the election. Having moved to Reno from Dallas in 2018, Brown had struggled to shake his repute as a Nevada newcomer.

Within the weeks forward of election day, a number of rural Republican officers endorsed Rosen, praising her as a political consensus-builder who had introduced a wealth of federal funding and assets to the state.

At a debate final month, she informed supporters she was “proud to be probably the most bipartisan, efficient and impartial senators”.

Most polls confirmed Rosen forward of Brown for weeks forward of the election, and he or she maintained a three-to-one fundraising and spending benefit over her opponent. However race tightened considerably forward of election day. Brown was boosted by a Pac linked to the Republican Senate minority chief, Mitch McConnell, which spent $6m on final minute adverts interesting to Maga voters: “President Trump and Nevada want Sam Brown within the Senate.”

Brown appeared alongside Trump in the course of the president’s a number of visits to the state and had carefully aligned himself with the previous president’s coverage platforms.

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