{"id":1595514,"date":"2022-08-08T22:03:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T02:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595514"},"modified":"2022-08-08T22:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T02:03:56","slug":"gilbert-challenges-trump-endorsed-lombardos-gop-gubernatorial-win-in-nevada-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gilbert-challenges-trump-endorsed-lombardos-gop-gubernatorial-win-in-nevada-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilbert Challenges Trump-Endorsed Lombardo\u2019s GOP Gubernatorial Win in Nevada Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgilbert-challenges-trump-endorsed-lombardos-gop-gubernatorial-win-in-nevada-lawsuit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595514&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">During a rally in a circus tent spiked into the sun-broiled blacktop of an East Las Vegas shopping center two days before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nevada\">Nevada<\/a>\u2019s June 14 primary elections, Joey Gilbert claimed there was fraud afoot in his Republican gubernatorial primary against Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Gilbert, a Reno attorney and former professional boxer endorsed by the state GOP committee, told The Epoch Times his campaign had documented what they allege were irregularities by Clark County elections officials on behalf of \u201cestablishment\u201d Republicans conspiring to thwart his ascension to the governor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He would not go into specifics two days before the election, but said should he lose his GOP gubernatorial primary, his campaign would provide those details in a lawsuit that exposed the alleged machinations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Gilbert lost the election but has never conceded, demanding a recount in July that confirmed the results, and then following through with a lawsuit tentatively set to be heard in a Carson County court beginning Aug. 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lombardo won the election, according to the Nevada Secretary of State\u2019s Office, garnering 38.4 percent of the tally to pace an eight-candidate field. Endorsed by former President Donald Trump, Lombardo is set to challenge Democrat incumbent Gov. Steve Sisolak in the Nov. 8 election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Gilbert finished second with 27 percent of the vote, collecting 61,738 votes\u201426,000 fewer than Lombardo. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Despite that seemingly convincing gap, on Election Night, Gilbert in Twitter posts alleged there had been \u201cconflicting reports\u201d that mail-in ballots \u201cwould not be counted for three days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI can only imagine why that is\u2014so \u2018they\u2019 know the vote totals from the early voting and the Election Day voting and then can use the \u2018mail-in ballots\u2019 to make up the difference where needed,\u201d Gilbert said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In another Election Night Twitter post, Gilbert said he \u201cwill concede nothing\u201d and insisted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a rally in a circus tent spiked into the sun-broiled blacktop of an East Las Vegas shopping center two days before Nevada\u2019s June 14 primary elections, Joey Gilbert claimed there was fraud afoot in his Republican gubernatorial primary against Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo. Gilbert, a Reno attorney and former professional boxer endorsed by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}