On January 19, 2010, Scott Brown won the special election to the U.S. Senate, defeating Democrat Martha Coakley by a five-point margin. His victory was seen as a political upset, as he broke a more than 50-year streak of Democratic control over that Senate seat in Massachusetts. Brown’s win was fueled by voter dissatisfaction with Wall Street bailouts, rising unemployment, and concerns over growing federal expenditures.
However, in the 2012 election, he lost his Senate seat to Democrat Elizabeth Warren by an eight-point margin. Despite the loss, Brown remained active in public affairs. On June 8, 2017, he was appointed by President Donald Trump as the U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, where he served in an official diplomatic capacity.
Throughout his career, Brown has taken various socially conservative stances that have attracted scrutiny and, at times, controversy. He has made public comments on matters relating to same-sex relationships that were later retracted or clarified. For example, he once questioned the normality of a same-sex couple’s family structure, a statement he later walked back.
Brown also voted against the repeal of a Massachusetts law that prevented out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying in the state and supported a constitutional amendment aimed at banning same-sex marriage within Massachusetts. Additionally, his stance on abortion rights has shifted. While he initially expressed support for Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose, he later adopted a more pro-life orientation, leading to criticism from both sides of the political aisle.
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