Buck attempts to erase social media record  

Republican State Sen. Carrie Buck, who is challenging longtime U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, a Democrat, appears to be distancing herself from President Donald Trump’s agenda. In recent months, Buck has scrubbed social media posts in which she exalted tariffs and the One Big Beautiful Bill, and compared women who have abortions to Adolf Hitler. 

Buck did not respond to requests for comment on whether her positions on those issues have changed. Her campaign website lists Trump among her endorsements, but makes no mention of his policies.

Last year on the Fourth of July, Buck praised the passage of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill on X.  “Today was such an awesome day! The BIG beautiful bill passed….and my boys are all together once again! … Thank you, Lord, for all our blessings.”

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is projected by state officials to eliminate Medicaid coverage for roughly 70,000 to 100,000 Nevadans. Last year, the Joint Economic Committee Minority estimated just under 30,000 Nevadans in Congressional District 1, which Buck hopes to represent, could lose their health care coverage.  

The OBBBA capped the rate of a tax which may be assessed by states on private hospitals, known as the provider tax. The tax currently generates about $830 million a year in federal matching dollars for the state. The Nevada Hospital Association estimates that amount will be reduced by $300 million in fiscal year 2028, which begins next July, and by $507 million the following fiscal year.

A chunk of the matching funds— some 15% — is allocated to behavioral health services that facilitate access to mental health treatment.

Hospitals in CD1 are projected to lose just under $13 million, according to Third Way, a national think tank that advocates for moderate policies. 

Trump’s bill also put $328 million in clean energy investments and more than 7,200 jobs in the state at risk, according to the Clean Investment Monitor, a clean energy investment tracker created by Rhodium Group and MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.

Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, who is endorsed by Trump in his bid for reelection, says he persuaded the president to restore some of that money to a handful of solar projects in Nevada. 

Buck’s post hailing the OBBBA is no longer available. 

Buck also deleted a social media post endorsing Trump’s tariffs, which have raised prices for consumers and kept would-be tourists from traveling. 

In mid-March 2025, Buck asserted  on X that “It takes Trump’s policies to bring manufacturing jobs HOME. Made in America, baby! Just pointing out hypocrisy”.

Days earlier the Current reported that Trump’s tariffs were expected to put a damper on tourism, Nevada’s bread-and-butter industry. 

“I am gravely concerned that our tourism workers will face layoffs from the Trump tariffs,” Rep. Dina Titus, the Democrat incumbent Buck hopes to defeat, said at the time.  

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reports visitation to Southern Nevada was down 7.5% last year, the first of Trump’s second term. It has yet to recover and remains essentially flat year-over-year. 

Since Trump took office for the second time, the average Nevada family has paid $3,300 more for goods and services, says a report from the Joint Economic Committee Minority.

By May of this year, Buck’s post from March 2025 praising tariffs was no longer available. 

A third post deleted by Buck equated abortion with Hitler’s attempted genocide of Jews and others. 

In the spring of 2023, explaining her vote against what would become the Question 6 ballot initiative, Buck posted on Facebook that abortion is akin to “ripping a baby limb from limb out of his/her mother,” and added “I think Hitler did that in his reign.” She urged Nevadans to vote against an amendment that would add the right to an abortion to the Nevada Constitution. 

The ballot measure, a backlash against Trump’s first term litmus test for Supreme Court nominees, passed with 64% of the vote and must be approved again in November to amend the Constitution. 

By May of this year, Buck had deleted the post. 

Buck’s social media scrub comes as Republicans, dragged down by the Trump agenda, face the possibility of losing control of the House of Representatives in November. 

A poll released Tuesday by the Economist and YouGov found “52% of likely voters say they would vote for the Democratic candidate in their district, while only 38% would vote for the Republican candidate.”