There’s less than one week until Nevada’s Senate primary and MAGA extremist Sam Brown is more desperate than ever to get the Trump stamp of approval he’s been so desperately seeking for the past six months.
Brown has been on a mission to suck up to Trump, going on a far-right media tour to tout his MAGA credentials, flying to Mar-A-Lago to beg for Trump’s endorsement in person, and repeatedly proclaiming that Trump “motivated” him to run for office.
Read what outlets across the country are saying about Sam Brown’s embarrassing groveling for an endorsement:
Brandon Gillespie
June 5, 2024
- A battle is raging among those close to former President Trump over who he should endorse in Nevada’s brutal Republican Senate primary, which has turned heads in recent months.
- Nevada’s Republican primary is the only battleground Senate race that the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which is backing Brown, has weighed in on where Trump has so far declined to endorse a candidate.
- “That’s probably the only part of this that’s really propping Sam up. He’s run multiple times and lost, he doesn’t have very much energy or enthusiasm, he does very little media … he’ll put out cookie-cutter tweets and do an interview every once in a while, but he’s not like on the front lines fighting for the president day in and day out.”
- “If he does endorse, I think he would endorse Jeff. I think, at this point, the NRSC has pushed so hard for him to endorse Sam, but he hasn’t done it, and there’s a reason for that,” one of them said.
- “He just is never quick to do these things unless he has a long-standing relationship. In all the conversations, especially given that Sam was literally the top door-knocker for Donald Trump in the 2016 race and was an original grassroots MAGA guy, that is just something that’s not factoring in any serious way. It’s what people who want him not to do it are trying to push,” they added.
KTNV: Who does Trump like for Nevada’s Senate seat?
Steve Sebelius
June 5, 2024
- Trump has endorsed scores of people for offices around the country, everything from U.S. Senate to House of Representatives to state legislatures.
- Here in Nevada, Trump has backed former North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee in the three-person race for the GOP nomination for Congressional District 4.
- But when it comes to U.S. Senate … crickets.
- Brown missed out on Trump’s endorsement two years ago, when he was running in the Republican primary to challenge Democratic incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto. Trump instead backed former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt in that race and stuck with his endorsement even after Republican donor Don Ahern publicly urged Trump to back Brown instead of Laxalt.
- Their respective campaigns say both Brown and Gunter will attend Trump’s rally, which could either be a sign that he will continue to remain neutral or that one of them might have an awkward afternoon.
Nevada Current: Trump urges Nevadans to vote in Senate primary but doesn’t say for whom
Dana Gentry
June 5, 2024
- With two days left for early voting in the primary election and a rally planned in Las Vegas on Sunday, former Pres. Donald Trump has yet to endorse a candidate in the contentious Republican battle for U.S. Senate.
- “The word on the street is that he’s probably not going to endorse in the U.S. Senate race,” Republican pundit and political operative Chuck Muth said during a phone interview. “He’s just going to stay out of it, which is interesting.”
Reno Gazette Journal: Donald Trump heads to Las Vegas — will he endorse a Nevada US Senate candidate?
Mark Robison
June 5, 2024
- Will Donald Trump endorse a Nevada Republican in the crucial U.S. Senate primary when he returns Sunday for a rally in Las Vegas?
- Unlike in the two other states where the Senate seat is considered a toss-up, the former president has not weighed in on Nevada’s race.
- At a January rally in Las Vegas, Trump name-checked three of the candidates — Army veteran Sam Brown, former ambassador to Iceland Jeff Gunter and former Nevada Assemblyman Jim Marchant.
- It’s going to “be a very good race, we’ll see what happens,” Trump said.
New York Times: Election Updates: Donald Trump still hasn’t made an endorsement in the Nevada Republican primary for Senate
Kellen Browning
June 5, 2024
- Donald Trump still hasn’t made an endorsement in the Nevada Republican primary for Senate but Senator Steve Daines, the Montana Republican who leads Republicans’ effort to take back the Senate, told Politico on Wednesday that he’d spoken with Trump and believed the former president would endorse Sam Brown.
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