Sen. Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown are facing off in Nevada, as Democrats fight to hold onto the seat and their narrow majority in the Senate .
Polls showed Rosen leading in the race, her first reelection bid, as Election Day approached. But the state has historically posed polling difficulties, and was home to the closest Senate race in the country in 2022.
Republicans haven’t won a Senate race in the Silver State since 2012, but they flipped the governor’s mansion in the last election, which suggested that the Senate seat could be in play in 2024 .
Brown is a West Point graduate and combat veteran who was awarded a Purple Heart for his service in Afghanistan, where a roadside bomb explosion left him with third-degree burns. He went on to become a small business owner, and has campaigned on border security and economic issues. Republicans poured money into advertising in the state in the final weeks of the campaign seeking to boost Brown amid heavy Democratic investment in advertising — especially on abortion.