Republican Joe Lombardo unseated Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, notching a win for the GOP in an otherwise tough year for the party’s candidates for governor.
Lombardo’s defeat of Sisolak, who was the first Democrat to hold the governorship in two decades, ends four years of Democratic dominance in Nevada, where the party has enjoyed total control of state government.
The race remained a toss-up through late summer and fall, with recent polling showing Lombardo, the elected sheriff of populous Clark County who was backed by former President Donald Trump, ahead in a consistently tight contest in the presidential swing state. Lombardo, an Army veteran with decades of law enforcement experience who was first elected to the sheriff’s post in 2014, clinched the Republican nomination in JuneYour guide to the midterms
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