{"id":1994198,"date":"2023-08-08T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T16:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-senate-race-attracts-crowded-gop-primary-field-seeking-to-challenge-jacky-rosen\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T12:05:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T16:05:30","slug":"nevada-senate-race-attracts-crowded-gop-primary-field-seeking-to-challenge-jacky-rosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-senate-race-attracts-crowded-gop-primary-field-seeking-to-challenge-jacky-rosen\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowded GOP primary field vies to challenge Jacky Rosen in Nevada Senate race."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnevada-senate-race-attracts-crowded-gop-primary-field-seeking-to-challenge-jacky-rosen%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1994198&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The GOP Primary Field Grows as \u200bCandidates \u200dVie for Key Senate \u200bSeat<\/h2>\n<p>The\u2062 race to \u200cchallenge Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) in\u200c the upcoming election has intensified, with \u200dtwo Republican candidates recently throwing their hats into the\u2062 ring. Tony Grady,\u200b a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, announced his \u2062bid on Tuesday, joining a long list \u2063of contenders aiming\u200d to flip the crucial Senate seat red.\u200c Just a day earlier, Jeff Gunter, former U.S. \u200dambassador to Iceland, also\u200b launched his campaign to\u200d challenge the first-term incumbent.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Washington elites want to choose\u2064 our candidates?&#8221; the ad reads while showing a clip of \u200dPresident\u200b Joe Biden alongside Rosen. &#8220;Not a\u200b chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Grady\u2063 and Gunter now \u2064join a growing field of six other\u2063 candidates who have already declared their intentions to\u2063 take on Rosen in the upcoming election. This \u2064includes\u200c Sam Brown, the favored candidate of \u200bthe National Republican Senatorial Committee,\u200b Jim Marchant, \u2063an \u2064election denier who ran for secretary of state last year, Barry Lindemann and William Conrad, both \u200bunsuccessful Senate candidates in the previous election,\u200b Ronda Kennedy, and Stephanie Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>The battle for Nevada&#8217;s Senate\u2064 seat is expected\u2063 to\u2062 be one of the most fiercely contested races of the \u20642024 cycle. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the seat as \u200b&#8221;Lean Democrat,&#8221; highlighting its competitiveness. Nevada has emerged as \u2062a \u200dkey battleground state in recent\u200d election cycles, making it a challenging race for Rosen.<\/p>\n<p>However, Rosen may benefit from strong approval\u200d ratings in\u2063 the\u2064 Silver \u200bState. According \u200cto a recent Morning Consult poll, 44% of \u2064voters approve of her job performance.\u200c Additionally, her victory \u200cin 2018 by a 5-percentage point margin indicates a sense of strength as she\u200b seeks a second term.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click \u2063here<\/a> to read more from the \u200cWashington Examiner.<\/p>\n<h3>The Battle for Senate Seats in 2024<\/h3>\n<p>The 2024 election cycle will see 34 Senate seats up for grabs.\u2063 Of \u2062these, Democrats must defend 23, while Republicans\u2063 only need to defend 11, giving \u200bthe GOP a strong \u200dposition\u2062 to potentially flip\u200c crucial\u2064 Senate seats and shift the \u200cbalance of power in the upper \u200dchamber.<\/p>\n<p>At least eight\u2064 seats held by Democrats are considered tightly contested, with three being toss-ups \u2062heading into the\u2062 2024 cycle. Despite their vulnerabilities, incumbents are reporting strong \u2064fundraising\u2063 numbers, providing hope to the party that they can maintain their\u200b slim majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP primary for Sen. Jacky Rosen&#8217;s (D-NV) seat intensified with two new Republican candidates joining the race. Tony Grady, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, recently announced his candidacy, aiming to turn the crucial Senate seat red in the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1994199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}