Jacky Rosen

Data: Axios reporting; Note: Axios contacted every Democrat serving in the 119th Congress. The chart includes those who responded; Chart: Jacque Schrag/Axios Visuals.More than a dozen congressional Democrats plan to sit out President-elect Trump's inauguration, and many more are anxiously grappling with whether to attend, Axios has learned.Why it matters: Not every Democrat skipping the ceremony will do so to protest Trump — but a formal boycott is materializing as a first act of resistance against the incoming president.For many Democrats, the scars of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol remain fresh in the mind, marking Trump as a threat to democracy."For somebody who he said he's going to lock me up, I don't see the excitement in going to see his inauguration," former Jan. 6 committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) told Axios.State of play: Martin Luther King Jr. Day coinciding with the Jan. 20 inaugural ceremony gives many Democrats an easy out, though others planning to stay away cited a distaste for inaugurations, a loathing of Trump — and even fears for their safety.Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) said that as a Latina, she doesn't "feel safe coming" with Trump's supporters pouring in for the ceremony. "I'm not going to physically be in D.C. on that day," she told Axios.Similarly, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said that attending MLK Day events instead "makes sense, because why risk any chaos that might be up here?"For other members, the reasoning is more mundane: Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) "almost never attends inaugurations" and has only been to two during his 28 years in office, his spokesperson told Axios.What we're hearing: Incoming Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar (D-Texas), who hasn't decided whether to attend, told Axios, "I think you'll have some number of Democrats who go and a substantial number who don't.""There are civil rights organizations that are trying to set up alternatives," said Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), adding that Trump's inauguration "seems like the worst place to spend Martin Luther King Day."Several progressives predicted that the boycott won't be confined solely to the party's left flank.Data: Axios reporting; Note: Axios contacted every Democrat serving in the 119th Congress. The chart includes those who responded; Chart: Jacque Schrag/Axios Visuals.Zoom in: Dozens of Democrats boycotted Trump's first inauguration in 2017, led by the now-deceased congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.But the Jan. 6 attack, for which Democrats hold Trump squarely responsible, has added a new layer of disgust for some.Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) told Axios he "cannot be a part of that spectacle" as someone who was "locked in my office ... as the insurrectionists tried to overthrow our government.""I was trapped in the [House] gallery on Jan. 6," Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) said, explaining her intention to skip the ceremonies.Between the lines: Many undecideds are painfully trying to balance their sense of obligation with their detestation for Trump, as USA Today first detailed on Thursday.Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) expressed alignment with his colleagues who cannot bring themselves to go — but said he also believes members of Congress are "supposed to go to all of that stuff.""I'm struggling," the veteran lawmaker conceded.The other side: A sizable number of Democrats are prepared to grit their teeth and show up — if only to try to rebuild public faith in national institutions after the events that followed the 2020 election."I'm planning to attend ... because I believe in the peaceful transition of power and I respect the Office of the President," Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) told Axios.Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) said progressives "are coming down in different ways," but that she feels "it's important that we try to establish norms again" after Jan. 6.The bottom line: For many lawmakers, the question simply isn't a priority at the moment.Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), asked whether he plans to attend, told Axios: "Pssh, is that the burning issue of the day?"Axios' Stephen Neukam and Stef Kight contributed reporting for this story.

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The Senate overwhelmingly rejected three efforts led by progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders that would have blocked certain offensive weapons sales to Israel.

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Two senators are pushing a bipartisan bill, opposed by the "Squad," that would ban immigrants involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel; it is expected to pass.

Vice President Kamala Harris couldn’t win Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada or Arizona. But her party still did: Democratic Senate candidates in each of those battlegrounds emerged victorious, even as voters rejected Harris.

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Democratic incumbent

Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen won reelection to a second term in the Senate late Friday night, clawing out a victory of Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown.

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First-term Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) survives late surge by GOP challenger Sam Brown in race that wasn't supposed to be so close.

Late Friday night, the national media reported that Democrat Jacky Rosen was going to defeat Sam Brown for the U.S. Senate race. Rosen currently holds a, 18,000 vote lead through Friday night.“Thank you, Nevada! I’m honored and grateful to continue serving as your United States Senator,” Rosen said Friday on the social platform X.Brown, a retired Army captain who moved to Nevada from Texas in 2018, conceded defeat.

The Justice Department plans to focus on arresting the “most egregious” Jan. 6 rioters — particularly those who committed felony assaults on law enforcement officers but have not yet been arrested — in the remaining 72 days before President-elect Donald Trump is back in the White House, a law enforcement official told NBC News this week.Trump is expected to shut down the yearslong investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and has said he would “absolutely” pardon some, if not all, of his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol that day, labeling them “warriors,” “unbelievable patriots,” political prisoners and “hostages.” A Trump campaign spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on which rioters Trump would consider pardoning, though the campaign previously said that he would pardon Jan. 6 defendants on a “case-by-case basis when he is back in the White House.”Given Trump’s stunning election victory, federal prosecutors in the Justice Department’s Capitol Siege Section received guidance this week about how to proceed in pending Jan. 6 cases, NBC News has learned, including a directive to oppose any Jan. 6 defendant’s requests for delays. Prosecutors are instructed to argue that there is a societal interest in the quick administration of justice and these cases should be handled in the normal order.As for new arrests, the law enforcement official said, prosecutors will “focus on the most egregious conduct and cases until the end of the administration.” There are unlikely to be any further arrests of misdemeanor Jan. 6 defendants — such as those who entered the Capitol but did not assault law enforcement — unless a judge already signed off on those cases, but felony assault cases will proceed, the official said.Online sleuths who have aided the FBI in hundreds of arrests of Capitol rioters told NBC News they have identified and submitted evidence to the bureau on 75 people who are currently featured on the FBI’s Capitol Violence webpage and labeled as wanted for assault on a federal officer or for assault on media, both felonies.Federal officials would have to pick up the pace to get just those cases over the finish line before Trump walks through the lower west tunnel — where his supporters fought law enforcement in a battle multiple officers described as “medieval” — to take the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2025.“Just over 1 per day,” one of the online “sedition hunters” who has dedicated hours of their life to finding the Trump supporters who brutally assaulted law enforcement officers that day, told NBC News. “Place your bets!”“We didn’t spend the last four years tracking these criminals down just to have dozens of them avoid prosecution because half of the country are f—–g morons,” another of the online sleuths said. “Our work continues, as should the DOJ’s.”Existing cases against Jan. 6 defendants are expected to continue, with additional trials, sentencing hearings and plea agreement hearings scheduled to take place next week.The FBI has arrested over 1,560 Jan. 6 defendants so far. Prosecutors have secured more than 1,100 convictions, and more than 600 defendants have received sentences of incarceration ranging from days in jail to 22 years in federal prison.This week, a rioter who assaulted law enforcement officers and smashed in the windows to the House Speaker’s Lobby just before a fellow rioter was shot — and then became the target of a conspiracy theory suggesting he was a federal informant — was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.A former assistant U.S. attorney in the Justice Department’s Capitol Siege Section told NBC News this week that prosecutors are proud of the work they’ve done, but are understandably nervous about the future and demoralized. Many prosecutors got involved in these cases because of their desire to uphold the rule of law and to defend democracy, the former assistant U.S. attorney said, but the cases became about vindicating the victims, who are primarily police officers.“You spend any amount of time understanding what hell the police officers went through and watching the body-worn cameras where you stand in their shoes and you see people physically assaulting them and taking cheap shots at them and hitting them from behind, and using racial slurs against them, for hours and hours as they stood there and tried to protect the Capitol and people inside it, and the cases become about the victims,” he said. “So the idea that people who committed those crimes against those victims, people who assaulted those officers, would be pardoned, we just really hope people are thinking twice before doing that.”The prospect of presidential pardons for people who assaulted law enforcement is “pretty demoralizing,” the former assistant U.S. attorney said.“The idea that the most powerful person in the country says it’s OK, it’s OK to the person who sprayed them with bear spray, or hit them with a hockey stick, or drag them down steps, or, in the case of Michael Fanone, Tased them in the neck and caused them to have a heart attack, or, in the case of Daniel Hodges, trap them in between doors and continue to squeeze them in between doors ... while Hodges was screaming for his life, that part of it is, it’s so wretched,” he said.Prosecutors are extraordinarily proud of the work they’ve done and take solace in the notion that inside courtrooms — where facts, not political rhetoric, control the outcome of jury trials — American citizens who faced down the real evidence did the right thing, the former prosecutor said.“The evidence is overwhelming, and the testimony of the officers was overwhelming,” he said. “Time and time and time again, when people are confronted with the evidence, it points in the same direction.”Former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, an immigrant from the Dominican Republican and a military veteran who wrote a book about his experience coming to America, learning English, serving in the military and then being repeatedly assaulted by his fellow Americans at the Capitol on Jan. 6, continues to attend sentencing hearings for the criminals who assaulted him. His injuries from the attack forced him to retire in 2022; he’s in his mid-40s.Gonell, who campaigned on behalf of Kamala Harris, said he won’t let the story of Jan. 6 fade away, even after Trump takes office.“Whether he pardons them or not, that doesn’t take away what they did and what I went through,” Gonell said. “They — they cannot erase that history.”“If you remove Trump’s name out of the equation, and if you remove who they were supporting, would people who voted for him, would they be OK with what happened? Would they be supportive of me?” Gonell asked. “And that’s the question. It creates a moral injury.”“It’s not a good feeling,” he continued, “when you feel like nobody cares about what happened that day.”This story first appeared on NBCNews.com. More from NBC News:Trump wants to expand federal death penalty, setting up legal challengesTrump just realigned the entire political map. Democrats have ‘no easy path’ to fix it.An anti-Trump movement plans to rebuild for his second term

Democratic incumbent Sen. Jacky Rosen won reelection early Saturday morning after The Associated Press declared she had beat Republican Sam Brown in a race that turned on Rosen’s strong performance in the state’s two largest counties — Clark and Washoe

U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada has won reelection. The Democrat won her second term over Republican challenger Sam Brown, who was endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump. Rosen positioned herself as a nonpartisan advocate for her state while hammering Brown...

Ms. Rosen, the low-key Democratic incumbent, hung on, but the race was closer than expected amid President-elect Donald J. Trump’s strength.

Races for the House and Senate will determine which party holds the majority — and the power to boost or block a new president’s agenda.

Control of Congress is stake this election

Republicans will win control of the Senate for the next two years, NBC News projects, as Democrats have grown nervous about Kamala Harris’ prospects of winning the presidency.Senate Republicans ousted Democrats in red states to secure the majority, flipping seats in West Virginia and Ohio, two states that have swung heavily to the GOP. And they held their ground in friendly states like Texas and Florida, assuring them at least 51 seats when the new Congress is sworn in next January.The GOP’s success at converting a dream Senate map to victories where it counted most will give the party control of legislation and nominations under the next president. NBC News has not yet projected a winner in the race for the White House or which party will control the House.Follow 2024 election live updatesDemocrats had hoped their slate of incumbents and heavy outside spending by allied groups would help overcome headwinds in those red states. But ultimately the force of political gravity won out.The GOP senators are expected to elect a new leader next week as longtime Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is stepping down from the role after a record 18 years. His current deputy, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and former deputy, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, are battling to take the job when the new Congress begins.Every nonincumbent president since 1992 has entered office with their party controlling both chambers of Congress. But with the House still up for grabs, there’s no guarantee that’ll happen this year for either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.Republicans were favored to win the SenateDemocrats entered Election Day with a 51-49 edge. As expected, Republicans will pick up an open seat in deep-red West Virginia, with NBC News projecting that Gov. Jim Justice has won the election to succeed retiring Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Joe Manchin.And in the red state of Ohio, Republican candidate Bernie Moreno has defeated Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, NBC News projected.The party is also looking to flip a Democratic-held seat in the red states of Montana, where Democratic Sen. Jon Tester will have to again defy political gravity against GOP rival Tim Sheehy.And Democrats are defending another five seats in purple states that are highly competitive at the presidential level: Sen. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania; an open seat in Michigan, where Sen. Debbie Stabenow is retiring; Sen. Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin; an open seat in Arizona, where Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Krysten Sinema is retiring; and Sen. Jacky Rosen in Nevada.Meanwhile, Democrats’ best hopes for capturing a Republican-held seat faded in Texas, where Sen. Ted Cruz won re-election to a third term, NBC News projected In red-trending Florida, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., also won re-election, defeating former Democratic Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, NBC News projected. Some Democrats had held out hope for a miracle in Florida but outside groups largely avoided the race.In deep-red Nebraska, the populist independent candidate Dan Osborn was running competitively against low-profile Republican Sen. Deb Fischer, but Fischer held on.A close fight for the HouseThe race for the House is on a knife-edge, with redistricting accounting for some early seat changes but no clear trend about which way control of the chamber is headed.Republicans came into Election Day holding a 220-212 majority, with three vacancies — two in safe blue seats, one in a safe red seat. Democrats will need to pick up just four seats in order to capture control of the House and, with it, the speaker’s gavel and chairmanships of all committees.The battlefield is narrow. According to the Cook Political Report, there are 22 “toss-up” seats at the heart of the fight — 10 held by Democrats and 12 held by Republicans. A few dozen more seats are being hotly contested but lean toward one party.Notably, the blue states of New York and California host 10 ultra-competitive House districts. Those two states are expected to be comfortably won by Harris at the presidential level, but Republicans are investing heavily in holding and flipping downballot seats there.In New York, Republicans are defending four seats they flipped in 2022, propelling them to win the House majority. Those seats are held by Reps. Marc Molinaro, Mike Lawler, Anthony D’Esposito and Brandon Williams, all of whom are seeking re-election. Lawler’s race is rated “lean Republican.” Meanwhile, Rep. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., is facing a tough challenge from Republican Alison Esposito in the Hudson Valley in a race that is rated “lean Democrat.”And in central and southern California, at least five GOP incumbents are also facing tough re-election bids.Freshman Rep. John Duarte is facing Democrat Adam Gray in the 13th District; Rep. David Valadao has a rematch against Democrat Rudy Salas in the 22nd District; Rep. Mike Garcia is fending off a challenge from Democrat George Whitesides in the 27th District; longtime Rep. Ken Calvert is trying to hold off Democrat Will Rollins in the 41st District; and Rep. Michelle Steel is squaring off with Democrat Derek Tran in the 48th district.Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and the man who wants to replace him, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., have spent the past weeks crisscrossing those key House battlegrounds, as well as a slew of swing districts in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada and the Pacific Northwest.As polls opened Tuesday morning, the chair of the House Democratic campaign arm sounded a note of optimism.“We are in a very strong position,” Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., told NBC News. “We have great candidates. We are with the American people on policy, in our message. We’ve had the resources to get out the vote and communicate with voters all across the country, and that has all put us in a very strong position today to take back the majority, take back the gavels and make Hakeem Jeffries our next speaker.”Still, she warned that the battle for the majority could be close and take “a few days” to count all the votes.“We may not know tonight,” DelBene said.But in a speech to supporters in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana, Johnson said he would fly late Tuesday to Mar-a-Lago to be with Trump — a sign that the speaker and Republicans feel they are having a good election night. Spokespeople for Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said those leaders were also on their way to see Trump.“I think it is a night, when they tabulate all this, I am very hopeful that we’re going to have not only a larger majority in the House to make my job easier,” Johnson told the crowd in Shreveport, “but we retake the Senate and the White House as well. I think that’s what’s going to happen.”A full plateThe new Congress will have to work with the new president from the very start. The Fiscal Responsibility Act, the product of a deal between President Joe Biden and then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, extended the nation’s debt limit until January 2025. The Treasury Department will be able to avert an immediate catastrophic debt default by using extraordinary measures to free up cash, but another bipartisan agreement will likely be needed.The Senate will spend the first part of the New Year confirming the president’s judicial and Cabinet nominees, as well as hundreds of others nominated for other political roles.If Republicans manage to win complete control of the White House and Congress, they will be in the same situation they were in 2016 — with Trump back at the helm.In that scenario, Republicans will have to determine how to use budget reconciliation, an arcane process that Johnson, ould allow them to fast-track legislation without Democratic support: Do they push forward first with another round of Trump tax cuts? Or do they try once again to repeal or overhaul Obamacare, as they failed to do in 2017?Johnson, whose political fate is tied to the outcome of the election, has recently said Republicans would go big and pursue a “massive reform” of the Affordable Care Act if his party wins.“The ACA is so deeply ingrained, we need massive reform to make this work, and we got a lot of ideas on how to do that,” Johnson said at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania.If Democrats are able to capture the White House and Congress, it would be a remarkable coup for a party faced with one of the most daunting Senate maps in the modern era. That would give Harris’ aggressive economic agenda a fighting chance and put legislation to codify abortion rights high on the agenda.This article first appeared on NBCNews.com. Read more from NBC News here:Andy Kim ushers in a ‘new era’ as he becomes 1st Asian American N.J. senatorSen. 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Election Day is here. Voters are gearing up to head to the polls to cast their ballots for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in one of the nation’s most historic presidential races. They'll also be determining which party will...

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This story is part of a series of state-by-state previews of the 2024 election.Nevada is once again home to competitive races that could determine control of the White House and the U.S. Senate. It is also one of 10 states where voters will decide a high-profile ballot measure on abortion in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade.Nevada has six electoral votes, making it the smallest prize of the seven presidential battleground states that Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump and their campaigns view as critical to winning the presidency. Both candidates have made multiple campaign stops in Nevada since becoming their parties’ nominees over the summer.In a race for a seat in the closely divided U.S. Senate, Democratic incumbent Jacky Rosen seeks a second term against Republican Sam Brown, a retired Army captain who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP nomination for the state’s other U.S. Senate seat in 2022.Voters will also decide ballot measures that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, require voters to show photo identification in order to vote, and adopt a nonpartisan, ranked-choice voting system in future elections.Nevada has one of the nation’s best track records as a presidential bellwether. The candidate who won the state has gone on to win the White House in 27 of the last 30 presidential elections. It voted for the losing candidate only in 1908, 1976, and 2016, when Democrat Hillary Clinton carried the state. Democrats have won Nevada in the last four presidential elections.RELATED STORY: GOP Senate nominee tries to walk back lifetime of anti-abortion extremism

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Sam Brown, Nevada’s Republican candidate for Senate, has positioned himself as a relatable “small-town” candidate with salt-of-the-earth values while he challenges Democratic incumbent Jacky Rosen for her swing seat. However, not only do his family ties complicate that image, but also recent reports by the Federal Election Commission reveal that Brown has raked in money from both the oil and gas industry and its wealthy tycoons since his political inception. He also exhibits a questionable track record of political spending, with three complaints filed with the FEC against him for misappropriating funds by a super PAC affiliated with him.

Election Day is Tuesday, but in reality, that’s just the beginning of the process. It may take days to sort out who voters chose as president and who runs the House.

I’m ranked as one of the nation’s most bipartisan, independent and effective senators because I’ve never hesitated to put partisanship aside or stand up to special interests to deliver for Nevada.

What 538's 2024 Senate election forecast says.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sam Brown looks to be closing the polling gap with Democrat Jacky Rosen in Nevada, a key battleground state.

Nevada is once again home to competitive races that could determine control of the White House and the U.S. Senate

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2024 General Election: U.S. Senate

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