Trump 'scooped' Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown on proposing to get rid of taxes on tips
Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown says Trump "scooped" him on his proposal to get rid of taxes on tips.
Amid talk of electrocutions and sharks at a scorching outdoor Las Vegas rally over the weekend, former President Donald Trump tucked in a new policy announcement with significant implications in a state with a massive service industry: get rid of taxes on tips.
Some Democrats were quick to dismiss it as a wild, unattainable Trump promise. And the powerful Culinary Workers Union, which represents tens of thousands of hospitality and hotel workers, described the former president as a “Johnny come lately” to a fight that’s been ongoing for decades.
But it appears Trump picked at an issue that could quickly resonate in a high-profile Senate race that’s kicking into gear in the battleground state.
Sam Brown — who clinched the Republican nomination Tuesday and will take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen — said in an interview that he had planned to unveil the same proposal during his general election campaign, until Trump “scooped” him.
“That was actually a policy idea that my team had sort of developed and we were planning to roll out in the general election,” Brown said in an interview with NBC News. “So in some sense, President Trump scooped us and beat us to it. But that’s something we’re fully behind. Those tips are not guaranteed income, people work hard for it.”
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