Sam Brown Wins Nevada G.O.P. Senate Primary and Will Face Jacky Rosen in November

After losing in a Senate primary in 2022, Mr. Brown, an Army veteran, was the pick of establishment Republicans from the start of the 2024 race.

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Sam Brown campaigning on Saturday in Reno, Nev. He was nearly killed in 2008 while serving in Afghanistan when his vehicle drove over a roadside bomb.

Sam Brown, an Army veteran who was the heavy favorite in the Nevada Republican primary race for Senate even before former President Donald J. Trump’s last-minute endorsement, won the nomination on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.

He will face Senator Jacky Rosen, the state’s Democratic incumbent, in one of the most closely watched Senate contests of the year.

With 57 percent of the vote counted, Mr. Brown had 57 percent, lapping the crowded primary field. His closest rival, Jeff Gunter, a former U.S. ambassador to Iceland, had about 17 percent. Jim Marchant, a former state assemblyman, was at roughly 7 percent, and Tony Grady, an Air Force veteran, had 5 percent.

“Thank you, Nevada!” Mr. Brown posted on X, minutes after the news of his victory elicited a cheer from the assembled crowd at his campaign watch party in a Reno hotel. “Next stop: November 5th.”

The victory was redemption of sorts for Mr. Brown, who ran for Senate in 2022 after moving to Reno, Nev., from Dallas in 2018, but lost in the Republican primary to Adam Laxalt, the state’s former attorney general. This time, he was the pick of the Republican establishment from the start, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which works to elect Republicans to the Senate, backed him early and worked to clear the field of competitors.

They did not quite manage that. Roughly a dozen Republican challengers vied for the right to face Ms. Rosen, a low-profile Democrat running for re-election in a battleground state where recent elections have been decided by narrow margins.

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