Republican Sam Brown swings away in Nevada Senate debate amid polling deficit
GOP candidate Sam Brown spent Thursday’s Nevada Senate debate taking shots at Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen, as he still faces a polling deficit with Election Day creeping nearer.
LAS VEGAS — GOP candidate Sam Brown spent Thursday’s Nevada Senate debate taking shots at Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen as he still faces a polling deficit with Election Day creeping nearer.
On three separate occasions, Brown called Rosen an “elitist” and an “insider” as he tried to cast himself as the outside force taking the people’s voice to Washington, D.C. In contrast, Rosen spent the evening focusing largely on her track record and roots in Nevada, hoping to stay above the fray and ride her polling lead.
Brown was so eager to attack Rosen that he even used a question about potential alien life to get in a jab in a theme that persisted throughout the debate.
The tension blew over early in the debate when the two candidates tackled the issue of housing, with rising prices making homeownership less attainable for Nevadans. Rosen proposed holding corporate investors accountable for buying up real estate and pricing people out.
“If you’re in a housing shortage and these corporate investors come and buy up all the homes and they jack up the prices to unreasonable rates, that’s hurting your community,” said Rosen, touting her proposed legislation called The Home Act. “We’re going to fine them.”
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