Las Vegas, NV (AP) – Following a failed run for the Secretary of State’s office, Nevada Republican Jim Marchant announced Tuesday that he will run for the U.S. Senate against Democratic incumbent Jacky Rosen.
Marchant is a former one-term state Assembly member who also lost a bid for Congress three years ago
Rosen, 65, defeated GOP Sen. Dean Heller in 2018, and has not drawn a party challenger since announcing last month that she would seek reelection.
Federal campaign financial reports for the filing period ending March 31 showed Rosen raised more than $10 million for the race and had $6 million to spend. Marchant was not yet listed by the FEC on Tuesday.
Marchant has toured rural Nevada counties to encourage local lawmakers to get rid of voting machines and adopt paper ballots and was the architect of a hand-count in Nye County, which became one of the first jurisdictions nationwide to attempt the slower method of counting votes.