Rosen hits Brown on abortion in new Nevada Senate ad

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) took a swipe at Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown for his stance on abortion, arguing in a new campaign ad the retired Army captain would eliminate constituents’ reproductive rights if put in office.

The 30-second ad, titled “Valerie,” features a Nevada woman who said she could not receive the necessary medical care to terminate a pregnancy while living in Texas due to the state’s abortion restrictions.

Brown, who was running for a Texas state House seat in 2014, said he supported the law, which banned abortion after 20 weeks’ gestation, unless a patient is at risk of death or the fetus has a severe medical problem.

“Because of the law Sam Brown pushed for, I had to leave Texas to get the care that I needed,” the woman, Valerie Peterson, said in the ad, which was released Wednesday. “Now I live in Nevada, and I can’t watch Sam Brown take away our rights here, too.”

The ad’s release came just hours after Brown clinched the Republican nomination in Nevada’s Senate GOP primary on Tuesday, defeating several challengers, including former U.S. Ambassador to Iceland Jeff Gunter, who served under former President Trump.

Brown’s win tees up for a race against first-term Rosen in November.

Brown received the last-minute backing of Trump earlier this week, though his win in Tuesday’s primary was already largely expected.

Following his primary win, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) pushed out a one-minute ad digging into the retired Army captain. The ad highlights his previous comments related to Yucca Mountain, in which he indicated openness to consider using it as a nuclear waste storage site.

Brown has since taken back those comments and said on the social platform X “it should not, and will not, be revived as a nuclear waste repository.”

The ad also targeted Brown’s positions on abortion, Social Security and Medicare.

“Sam Brown is a MAGA extremist, with a self-serving political agenda that would hurt hard working Nevadans: banning abortion, phasing out Social Security and Medicare, and even re-opening Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository,” DSCC spokesperson Amanda Sherman Baity said in a statement. “He’s shown Nevadans that his plans are too extreme and too dangerous for him to be anywhere near the U.S. Senate.”

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the seat as a “toss up.”