Jacky Rosen

On January 26, she declared her candidacy for NV's 3rd congressional district.

Rosen won 60% of the vote in the Democratic primary election and narrowly defeated Republican nominee Danny Tarkanian in the general election.

She is also the 37th freshman member of the U.S. House to win a Senate seat and the first woman to do so.

Rosen was on Capitol Hill for the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol.

At the time, she was in the Russell Senate Office Building before being evacuated to a secure, undisclosed location.

She tweeted during the attack, calling the event "reprehensible" and writing, "It's time for us as a nation to come together and denounce hate and violence."

Rosen has been described as a liberal Democrat at times and as a moderate at others.

Jacklyn Sheryl Rosen (née Spektor; born August 2, 1957) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Nevada since 2019.

Rosen was born on August 2, 1957, in Chicago, Illinois, to Carol, a homemaker, and Leonard Spektor, a car dealership owner who had served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

Rosen's mother was of Irish, German, and Austrian descent, and her father's family were Jewish emigrants from Russia and Austria.

Rosen attended the University of Minnesota and graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1979.

While she was in college, her parents moved to Las Vegas, where Rosen moved after graduating.

She took a job with Summa Corporation and worked summers as a waitress at Caesars Palace throughout the 1980s.

While working for Summa, she attended Clark County Community College (now the College of Southern Nevada) and received an associate degree in computing and information technology in 1985.

She began working for Southwest Gas from 1990 to 1993.

Rosen has touted her efforts to "build a business", but a Reno Gazette Journal review of public records found no evidence that she held a state or local business license.

According to Rosen, she ran a company between 1993 and 2002 of which she was the only employee.

Her business served two main clients, Southwest Gas, which was Rosen’s former employer, and Radiology Specialists, a Las Vegas-based physician group that employed Rosen’s husband.

A former computer programmer with no political experience at the time, Rosen was asked by U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, also from Nevada, to run in the 2016 election for the U.S. House seat being vacated by Republican Joe Heck.

A member of the Democratic Party, she was the U.S. representative for Nevada's 3rd congressional district from 2017 to 2019.

She was sworn into office on January 3, 2017.

Her candidacy, announced on July 5, 2017, was endorsed by former President Barack Obama and former vice president Joe Biden.

During the campaign, Rosen emphasized her support for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and criticized Heller's vote to repeal it in 2017.

At the time, Rosen voted in the U.S. House against Republicans' attempts to repeal Obamacare.

Rosen defeated Heller, 50.4%–45.4%.

Heller carried 15 of Nevada's 17 county-level jurisdictions, but Rosen carried the state's two largest, Clark (home to Las Vegas) and Washoe (home to Reno).

She won Clark County by over 92,000 votes, almost double her statewide margin of more than 48,900 votes.

Rosen was elected to the Senate in 2018, defeating Republican incumbent Dean Heller.

She was the only House freshman to win a Senate seat in the 2018 midterm elections and the only challenger to defeat a Republican incumbent senator in 2018.

Rosen was elected to the U.S. Senate on November 6, 2018, defeating one-term Republican senator Dean Heller to become the junior senator from Nevada.

Rosen was one of only two non-incumbent Democrats, alongside Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, to win election to the Senate in 2018.

The letter asserted that Trump had "consistently expressed a flawed understanding of U.S. foreign assistance" since becoming president and that he was "personally undermining efforts to promote U.S. national security and economic prosperity" through preventing the use of Fiscal Year 2018 national security funding.

The senators argued that foreign assistance to Central American countries created less migration to the U.S. by helping to improve conditions in those countries.

Rosen supports an assault weapons ban.

Rosen supports the Affordable Care Act and its provisions that prevent patients from being denied insurance or charged more due to age or a preexisting condition.

She supports allowing citizens to buy into Medicaid as an alternative option that would compete with private insurance companies.

In April 2019, Rosen was one of 34 senators to sign a letter to Trump encouraging him "to listen to members of your own Administration and reverse a decision that will damage our national security and aggravate conditions inside Central America."

As of April 2020, FiveThirtyEight found that Rosen's votes aligned with President Trump's legislative positions about 36% of the time.

The American Conservative Union gave her a 5% lifetime conservative rating in 2020.

Rosen supports abortion rights and has been endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice America.