America Is Worth Fighting For: Army Veteran Running for US Senate

Capt. Sam Brown, a U.S. Army veteran running for Senate in Nevada, in an interview with NTD Capitol Report on May 30, 2022. NTD

Capt. Sam Brown, a U.S. Army veteran and purple heart recipient, was forced to give up his military career because of nearly being burnt alive during a combat mission in Afghanistan, but his injuries haven’t stopped him from continuing his service to his country.

He’s now running for the U.S. Senate in Nevada because he wants to help resolve a number of fundamental challenges facing Americans, he said.

Brown, a West Point graduate from a long line of service members, said he’s running for the Senate because the United States is the best country in the world and worth fighting for.

“It didn’t come easy. It didn’t come free. It came at a heavy cost of lives and blood and tears and destroyed families. But it was done because people believed in what the United States is and what it can be,” he said during a recent interview for NTD Capitol Report.

“As we look to our history and to our past, and remember those lives and that sacrifice, we also need to look forward and remember and accept the challenge to honor that sacrifice, and fight to preserve the United States to continue to be the greatest country this world has ever known,” he said, speaking about Memorial Day.

On his campaign website, Brown wrote that he sees an increasing number of people “cast America as a villain” and the principles of “American exceptionalism” as bad.

“These critics have forgotten why their ancestors sacrificed so much to come here,” he said.

Seeing this and other fundamental issues affecting the country and threatening the American way of life, Brown decided to campaign to represent Nevada in the U.S. Senate.

He said the voters in his state are troubled by inflation and the curtailing of First and Second Amendments rights, “and underlying all of this is an education system that is failing our children, and this is what Nevadans are most concerned about.”

If Brown wins the Republican nomination, he'll face incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), a former congressional representative. Nevada has become a battleground state and one that might well decide which party holds the Senate majority.

Currently, the Senate is split 50–50 between Democrats and Republicans.

Historically, Nevada has elected an almost even number of Democratic and Republican senators. Other states that are being looked at as “toss-up” states for the November election are Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.