First-time GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown hauls in $1M in battleground Nevada

The campaign of Army veteran Sam Brown says the first-time candidate’s fundraising figures show he's "a force to be reckoned with" in the GOP Senate primary in Nevada, a key battleground state in the 2022 midterm elections.

The GOP needs a net gain of just one seat to win back the Senate majority in next year’s midterms. While Republicans are playing defense – they’re defending 20 of the 34 seats up for grabs – they see opportunities to flip blue seats red in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire and Nevada, where first-term Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is running for reelection.

Brown, a newcomer to politics, is a retired Army captain. He’s a Purple Heart recipient who sustained serious injuries from an IED explosion during a 2008 deployment in Afghanistan, which left his face severely burned.