LAS VEGAS — Hours after Sam Brown clinched Nevada’s Republican Senate nomination Tuesday night, his Democratic opponent released an ad highlighting his support of a 20-week abortion ban in Texas a decade ago — turning to a battle-tested playbook as Democrats look to fend off Republican inroads here. Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen’s ad features a Nevada woman who says she was not able to get the medical care she needed to terminate her pregnancy in her then-home state of Texas because of its 2013 ban on abortions after 20 weeks’ gestation — even though she had learned from her doctor that her son’s brain was separated from his spinal cord and he was unlikely to survive. Brown, while running for a Texas state House seat the year after the law passed, said he supported it.
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