Rosen won election to the Senate in 2018, becoming the only Democratic challenger at the time to defeat a Republican incumbent senator during the 2018 midterm elections. Prior to that, she represented Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House.

Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown were literally tied after initial election results were released Tuesday night, and by that time the race in Nevada was already irrelevant to control of the Senate,

Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen trailed Republican Sam Brown by less than 1,000 votes as Nevada counties stopped reporting results early Wednesday morning. As of Wednesday at 3 a.m., Brown led Rosen by 870 votes — or 0.