Toxic Policy Positions, Ethics Scandals, & MAGA Loyalty Plague First Year of Sam Brown’s Second Doomed Senate Campaign

Today marks one year since MAGA extremist Sam Brown launched his second doomed bid for the U.S. Senate. In the last year, Brown has repeatedly shown just how out of step he is with Nevadans – from his toxic policy stances, numerous ethics scandals, and his unwavering loyalty to a far-right MAGA agenda.

Sam Brown’s toxic policies are deeply out of step with hardworking Nevadans. Brown has pushed to ban abortion even in cases of rape or incest, embraced radical plans to phase out Social Security and Medicare in five years, and was caught on tape pushing to reopen Yucca Mountain and turn Nevada into the nation’s dumping ground for nuclear waste.

• Daily Kos: GOP picks anti-abortion extremist from Texas for Nevada Senate race

• Nevada Current: Brown recruited, managed campaign for extreme anti-abortion candidate in Texas

• Axios: In Nevada, another GOP Senate contender downplays stance on abortion

• American Journal News: Nevada Republican Sam Brown has ties to extremist who compared abortion to slavery

• Nevada Current: Brown avoids abortion issue on campaign, but attends anti-abortion rights gala

• Nevada Independent: GOP Senate candidate Brown refers women to crisis pregnancy centers on campaign website

• HuffPost: GOP Senate Candidates Are Racing To Rewrite Past Abortion Positions. Democrats Are Counting On Voters To See Through It.

• Daily Kos: GOP Senate nominee tries to walk back lifetime of anti-abortion extremism

• Jezebel: Flip-Flopping GOP Candidate Claims His Wife’s Abortion Means He’ll Vote Pro-Choice

• LA Times: Nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain could roil Nevada U.S. Senate race

• Nevada Independent [OP-ED]: Radioactive fallout: Sam Brown shows ignorance on Yucca Mountain fight

• Nevada Current: Brown: Failure to bring nuclear waste to NV is an ‘incredible loss of revenue for our state’

• American Journal News: Biden’s infrastructure law is boosting Nevada’s economy. Sam Brown opposed it.

• Nevada Current [OP-ED]: Brown said he wants to ax multiple federal departments, promised spending cuts will ‘be painful’

• Nevada Current: Brown backs balanced budget amendment and cutting trillions in federal spending

• The Nevadan: Sam Brown once called for a massive increase to interest rates. Where does he stand now?

• American Journal News: Nevada Senate candidate praised Rick Scott for creating ‘roadmap’ to sunset Medicare

• Punchbowl News: Sam Brown fundraises off of Tuberville’s blockade of senior military promotions

• The Nevadan: Sam Brown opposes many gun safety reforms. How will that shape the 2024 US Senate race?

• The Advocate: Raising the alarm about Nevada’s extremist anti-LGBTQ+ Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sam Brown

Sam Brown will say or do anything to get elected, even if it means racking up ethics violations. Brown has been plagued by a series of ethics scandals, including trying to cover up his leadership role in the Nevada chapter of an extreme anti-abortion organization and running a scam PAC that swindled grassroots Republican donors to pay off his own campaign debts – “a move one campaign finance expert likened to using the PAC as a ‘slush fund.’”

• CNN: Nevada GOP Senate candidate raised money to help other candidates – the funds mostly paid down his old campaign’s debt instead

• KTVN: Sam Brown Fails To Disclose Texas LLC

• Las Vegas Sun: Nevada GOP Senate hopeful clears up disclosure omission, faces FEC complaint

• Las Vegas Sun: Group alleges GOP Senate candidate in Nevada broke campaign finance rules

• Nevada Independent: Pro-Sam Brown super PAC gets $2 million from software billionaire

Sam Brown will always side with Donald Trump and far-right MAGA extremists over doing what’s right for Nevada. Brown has downplayed the violence at the Capitol on January 6 that was incited by the very same conspiracy theories he has spread – describing it as a “complex” mixture of “patriotic expression of [insurrectionists’] love of country” and their “concerns.” 

• Nevada Independent: Most Nevada GOP candidates mum on election integrity after ‘Big Lie’ was prominent in 2022

• Nevada Current: Brown reportedly went to Mar-a-Lago seeking Trump’s endorsement

• Fox News: Army vet Sam Brown looks to upset Dems in Nevada Senate race: Trump ‘motivated me’

• New York Times: Trump Endorses Sam Brown in Nevada’s Key Senate Race

• Las Vegas Review Journal: “Brown did not directly answer any of the Review-Journal’s questions, and he did not provide examples of new laws he thinks put election security at risk.”

• New York Times: “Last week, Mr. Brown responded to a questionnaire from The Las Vegas Review-Journal that asked candidates about election fraud and their willingness to accept the results of their own race in 2024. But he did not directly answer any of the questions.”

• Washington Post: “Brown accused his primary opponent, Adam Laxalt, of doing too little to challenge the 2020 results as co-chairman of Trump’s Nevada campaign.”

Nevada State Democratic Party Spokesperson Katharine Kurz:

“Sam Brown has spent the past year trying to cover up his toxic agenda of banning abortion and threatening Social Security and Medicare, dodging repeated ethics scandals, and embracing the far-right MAGA wing of his party – and we have the receipts to prove it. Brown is deeply out of step with Nevadans, and that will become even more clear when he loses yet another campaign in November.”

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