Trump-Backed Army Vet Wins Nevada Senate Primary After Wild Allegations

An Army veteran who got a last-minute Donald Trump endorsement won the Nevada Senate Republican primary late Tuesday after another GOP Senate hopeful claimed the endorsement had been bought for cash.

Former Army Capt. Sam Brown had been backed by the National Republican Senatorial Committee throughout the race, and he was widely seen as a shoo-in even before he clinched 59.6 percent of the vote on Tuesday night. But the race was not without turbulence within the GOP, as Brown’s opponent, Trump’s former ambassador to Iceland, Jeffrey Gunter, alleged on social media that a “big check” had been behind the former president’s belated endorsement of Brown.

Trump announced his endorsement on Sunday night after his rally in Las Vegas, just two days before the primary, praising Brown as a “fearless American patriot.” Gunter claimed, without providing evidence, that the “swamp” had swayed Trump with a check, an allegation the Trump campaign has denied.

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