Nevada
Democrat Jacky Rosen wins re-election in close Nevada Senate race
Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen won re-election in Nevada, even as President-elect Donald Trump expanded his Electoral College victory by flipping the state red.
Rosen, who was first elected to the Senate in 2018, narrowly defeated Republican challenger Sam Brown by 1.4 percentage points. The Associated Press called the race for Rosen at 12:15 a.m. ET on Saturday.
Rosen campaigned heavily on abortion rights and positioned herself as a non-ideological politician, a formula that also worked for the state’s senior senator, Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, in her own re-election bid two years ago.
Despite electing two Democratic senators in the last two years, Nevada backed Trump in the presidential election, giving its six Electoral College votes to a Republican nominee for the first time since 2004 and pushing the once and future president over 300 Electoral College votes.
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“Thank you, Nevada! I’m honored and grateful to continue serving as your United States Senator,” Rosen said Friday on the social platform X, formerly Twitter.
Rosen is one of several Democrats who won close Senate races in battleground states that Vice President Kamala Harris lost. Rep. Elissa Slotkin won the hotly-contested race in Michigan, while Sen. Tammy Baldwin won re-election in Wisconsin. The final race in Arizona is yet to be called but Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego is narrowly ahead of Republican Kari Lake, AP projections show. Like its neighbors to the west and northeast, the Grand Canyon State looks to be splitting the ticket: Trump is ahead of Harris by around 181,000 votes, according to AP, though the race has not been called.
Despite those wins, Republicans took control of the Senate, after flipping seats in Wes Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Montana. The GOP is projected to have a 53-47 majority.
Brown, a retired Army captain who moved to Nevada from Texas in 2018 and has never held elected office, unsuccessfully tried to ride Trump’s strong showing in the working-class state.
Just before Rosen won, Brown said on X that it was unacceptable that votes were still being counted in Nevada days after the election.
“We deserve to know election results within hours, not a week later,” he said.
Brown had Trump’s support in the Republican primary and won easily, but he was significantly outspent during the campaign, leaving Rosen to dominate the airwaves for months.
During the campaign, Rosen spotlighted her work on expanding broadband internet access and helping to connect Las Vegas with Southern California via light rail.
She also hammered Brown for his opposition to abortion rights, saying he would support a national abortion ban despite Brown’s statements that he respects Nevada voters’ choice decades ago to legalize abortions.
This article includes reporting from The Associated Press.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom won’t admit it, but a move by President Donald Trump is especially helpful to drivers in California — and Nevada.
Gasoline prices are pressuring consumers around the country. On Friday, the average U.S. price was $4.55 a gallon. In California, that would be a bargain. The average there was $6.16 a gallon. Nevada’s average was $5.23 a gallon, the result of around 88 percent of the state’s gasoline coming from California.
It might be getting worse — regardless of what happens in Iran.
In recent months, two major California refineries have shut down. That represented a 17 percent reduction in California’s refining capacity. Their closures weren’t caused by the Iran war, but by Gov. Newsom and California’s relentless attacks on fossil fuels.
To make up for the fuel it won’t extract or refine in-state, California depends on imports from foreign countries.
“We are importing 30 percent of our crude oil from the Middle East,” Mike Ariza, a former control board supervisor at the Valero Benicia Refinery, said in an interview. He has been warning the public about California’s potential fuel shortage. “There are not very many ships left on the way that have fuel,” he said last month.
Last week, KCRA-TV in Sacramento reported that “about 2 million barrels of oil are in the process of being unloaded in Long Beach off of the last California-bound tanker that got through the Strait of Hormuz.”
At a California legislative hearing Tuesday, Siva Gunda, the vice chairman of the California Energy Commission, said the state has enough gasoline to accommodate demand for the next six weeks. That’s not a very long time, especially given that it takes weeks or months for oil to travel from the Middle East to California. And that process won’t begin until the Strait of Hormuz reopens.
There is a region, however, with abundant oil available for sale and safe passage — the southeastern United States. Unfortunately, the Jones Act, an antiquated 1920 law, mandates that only U.S.-flagged ships may move cargo between U.S. ports. But only 55 of the more than 7,000 oil tankers worldwide comply with this requirement.
This is where Mr. Trump rode to the rescue. Late last month, the White House announced Mr. Trump would suspend the Jones Act for another 90 days. In March, he originally waived it for 60 days. This will make it easier for California and Nevada to obtain domestic product.
If only Mr. Trump could also suspend the destructive energy policies imposed by Gov. Newsom and California Democrats.
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — An adoptable pet is in the spotlight for “Furever Home Friday,” with Amy from the Nevada SPCA featured in a segment highlighting an animal available for adoption today.
The Nevada SPCA encouraged viewers looking to add a pet to their family to consider adopting.
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