LAS VEGAS — GOP candidate Sam Brown held a debate Thursday with Democratic Sen. Jackie Rosen in the Nevada Senate as Election Day approaches as he faces a voting deficit.
Brown called Rosen an “elitist” and an “insider” three times as he tried to portray himself as an outside force bringing the popular vote to Washington. in Nevada, hoping to stay above the fray and build on his lead in the polls.
Brown was so eager to attack Rosen that he even used a question about potential alien life to tap into a theme that ran throughout the debate.
Tensions rose early in the debate when the two candidates tackled the issue of housing, when rising prices put homeownership out of reach for Nevadans. Rosen suggested holding corporate investors responsible for buying real estate and pricing people.
“If you have a housing shortage and these corporate investors come in and buy all the houses and drive the prices up to reasonable prices, it hurts your community,” Rosen said of his proposed bill. House Law. “We will fine them.”
Brown said, “It’s interesting that Senator Rosen will talk about wanting to fine greedy corporations. How about we fine the greedy politicians who make everything out of our reach?’
Another topic of debate when the candidates were asked was immigration former President Donald Trump’s proposed mass deportation policyborder security and immigration reform. Almost 29% of Nevada’s population is Hispanic or Latino 2020 census data.
“Mass deportations, who will be caught?” Rosen asked. “How many innocent people will be arrested?
“We need to think about what we’re doing, not use it as a political football,” he said.
Brown responded, “That’s what you’d expect from an elitist from D.C., whose neighborhood has more security than our border, with a gate and guards.
“Our border also deserves it. Our communities deserve it,” he said.
When moderators Rosen and Brown asked whether Congress should conduct an independent investigation into UFOs, Rosen answered the question.
“I think it’s important that we have an independent investigation in the Senate,” he said.
Brown said: “I’m as curious as anyone. I would like to know what happened.” He spun hard.
“But when you talk about secrets, I think there are secrets that Nevadans deserve to know, and that’s why Senator Rosen has violated the COMMUNITY Act multiple times,” Brown charged.
While Rosen spent the evening touting her bona fides as a senator and reminding the audience that she’s a lifelong Nevadan, she took a sidelong look at Brown when the issue of reproductive rights came up.
Abortion is now legal in Nevada up to the 24th week of pregnancy. Defends reproductive rights, fearing that such rights may be revoked in the future this summer has collected quite a few signatures putting a measure on the ballot to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. This made reproductive rights a cornerstone of Nevada’s political landscape.
Asked for his position, Brown said, “I’m coming at it as someone informed by my wife’s experience.” His wife, Amy Brown shared her abortion story with NBC News in February.
“I also support the Nevada law that allows abortion up to 24 weeks,” she said. “Nevadans clarified our law 34 years ago. I am in favor of this law and I would not vote for a national ban on abortion.”
But Rosen brought up Brown’s past positions on abortion. Brown, who ran for the Texas legislature in 2014 but lost, supported a 20-week abortion ban while running in that race. “He’s had a decade of experience saying he’s opposed to any exemption on abortion,” Rosen said of Brown’s changing position.
“If you don’t believe he will support a nationwide abortion ban, then I have an oceanfront property on the Las Vegas Strip to sell you,” he said.