The 2024 Nevada Senate race has Sen. Jacky Rosen facing a re-election challenge from Sam Brown

Late. Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown face off in Nevada as Democrats fight to hold on to the seat and their narrow majority in the Senate.

Polls showed Rosen leading in the race, her first re-election bid, as Election Day approached. But the state has historically posed voting difficulties and was home to the closest Senate race in the country in 2022.

Republicans haven’t won a Senate race in the Silver State since 2012, but they flipped the governor’s mansion in the last election, suggesting the Senate seat could be up for grabs in 2024.

Brown is a West Point graduate and combat veteran who was awarded a Purple Heart for his service in Afghanistan, where a roadside bomb explosion left him with third-degree burns. He went on to become a small business owner and has campaigned on border security and economic issues. Republicans poured money into ads in the state in the final weeks of the campaign, trying to boost Brown amid heavy Democratic investment in ads — especially on abortion.

Democrats hammered Brown on abortion throughout the campaign, as the issue has galvanized voters across the country since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Abortion is also on the ballot this year in Nevada, with a measure that would enshrine abortion as an individual right in the state constitution.

Outside of abortion, economic issues have also been particularly prominent in Nevada this cycle. With an economy based largely on tourism and hospitality around Las Vegas, Nevada is home to a significant working-class population. The state’s economy was among the hardest hit by pandemic shutdowns in 2020, leading to a much slower recovery than in other states and spurring frustration with Democrat-led policies. Brown seized on the issue during the campaign, along with immigration — two issues that Republicans have targeted the policies of the Biden-Harris administration.

Still, for Rosen — a 67-year-old former computer programmer and synagogue president — the race appeared to be turning in her favor after Vice President Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign. While President Biden had struggled to gain support in the state, Harris’ entrance appeared to shrink the margin by which Democrats had to outperform the top of the ticket. This dynamic was especially pronounced in Nevada, the Cook Political Report noted in a analysisand changed his rating from a toss-up to lean Democrat in August.