Army veteran and first-time Senate candidate Sam Brown revealed Tuesday that he received over $1.05 million in fundraising during the October-through-December fourth quarter of 2021.
The haul marks the second quarter in a row Brown has secured over $1 million in fundraising, which he says came from over 15,000 people who donated. Brown said the amount of donations he has received shows his movement for new conservative leadership is “here to stay,” Brown told the Washington Examiner.
“We are the only Nevada Senate campaign of either party with this type of massive grassroots following,” Brown said. “We aren’t funded by the Washington political class or PACs seeking a coronation. Thousands of patriots in Nevada and across America have rallied and donated to our campaign because they want new grassroots leadership that is accountable to the people.”
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Brown announced his campaign for the Nevada Senate in July 2021. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 2006 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2008, with his vehicle getting struck by a roadside bomb that severely wounded him mere months into his service.
The Army veteran is not the only GOP candidate running for the Republican nomination. Adam Laxalt, the former state attorney general and a fellow Army veteran, announced his run shortly after Brown in Aug. 2021.
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Both Brown and Laxalt aim to defeat Catherine Cortez Masto in the 2022 Nevada midterm election. Cortez Masto will run for reelection in November and is slightly favored to hold on to Nevada, a swing state that has not elected a Republican at the top of the ticket since 2014. A Dec. 2021 poll from the Trafalgar Group found Laxalt with 44% of the votes, a small lead over Cortez Masto’s 41%.
