{"id":1735662,"date":"2022-11-11T19:33:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T00:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735662"},"modified":"2022-11-11T19:33:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T00:33:09","slug":"breaking-republican-joe-lombardo-wins-nevada-governorship-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-republican-joe-lombardo-wins-nevada-governorship-projection\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Republican Joe Lombardo Wins Nevada Governorship: Projection"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fbreaking-republican-joe-lombardo-wins-nevada-governorship-projection%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=1735662&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>Decision Desk has <a href=\"https:\/\/results.decisiondeskhq.com\/2022\/general\/states\/Nevada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> the Nevada gubernatorial race for Republican Clark County Sheriff\u00a0Joe Lombardo, who received 49.24% of the vote to Democrat incumbent Steve Sisolak\u2019s 46.99% as of this reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Sisolak faced the same headwinds that Democrats across the country have faced in 2022. President Joe Biden\u2019s poor approval ratings along with high inflation, other economic concerns, and a crime wave hurt Democrats\u2019 polling numbers throughout the summer and fall.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to a hostile election environment, 68-year-old Sisolak faced numerous charges of corruption from Republicans after a ProPublica investigation revealed in May that Sisolak\u2019s administration had fast-tracked a lab license and awarded several COVID testing contracts to Northshore Clinical Labs. Northshore is closely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgj.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/05\/25\/sisolak-slams-despicable-company-missed-96-covid-cases\/9913339002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">linked<\/a> with the family of Peter Palivos, a well-known Nevada political contributor who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgj.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2022\/10\/28\/nevadas-sisolak-lombardo-clash-bombshell-donor-probe-covid-testing-northshore-clinical-labs\/10624241002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donated<\/a> tens of thousands of dollars to Sisolak\u2019s campaigns over more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>After Northshore was awarded five testing agreements with government entities, their testing kits were found to miss 96% of COVID cases. The revelation set off a series of circular finger-pointing among Sisolak and others involved in the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe day the state was made aware of Northshore\u2019s deficiencies in January we ordered them to stop their PCR testing operation, opened an investigation, and worked to correct the testing issues,\u201d Sisolak said in May. \u201cWe believe Nevada was the first state where Northshore operations were suspended due to the state\u2019s inquiries into the reported deficiencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sisolak seized on abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> earlier this summer. In June, he signed an executive order barring state employees from assisting any other state seeking to prosecute someone for receiving an abortion. He also attempted to paint Lombardo as an extremist on the issue, <a href=\"https:\/\/mynews4.com\/news\/local\/nevada-governor-democrat-steve-sisolak-highlights-abortion-access-in-race-against-pro-life-gop-lombardo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claiming<\/a> that the sheriff would try to ban contraceptives, an allegation that Lombardo has denied.<\/p>\n<p>Lombardo, 60, ran a campaign focused largely on economic issues, education, and crime, especially the prevalence of black market fentanyl in the state. The longtime law enforcement officer has portrayed himself as a moderate on other issues, such as abortion, consistently downplaying what he could do to limit abortion as governor.<\/p>\n<p>The Clark County sheriff also shifted on his support for former President Donald Trump during the campaign. During a debate with Sisolak in early October, Lombardo backed off when asked if he considered Trump, who endorsed Lombardo, to have been a \u201cgreat president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say great,\u201d Lombardo <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-health-las-vegas-donald-trump-0e1fcd02b332b05bcc129ee42a0585b1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cI think he was a sound president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the debate, Lombardo\u2019s campaign sent out a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeLombardoNV\/status\/1576781780849348609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling<\/a> the former president \u201ca great president\u201d and claiming that \u201chis accomplishments are some of the most impactful in American history.\u201d The statement went on to tie Sisolak to Biden and accuse the Nevada governor of weakening the state\u2019s elections through mail ballots, \u201cballot harvesting,\u201d and opposition to voter ID.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision Desk has called the Nevada gubernatorial race for Republican Clark County Sheriff\u00a0Joe Lombardo, who received 49.24% of the vote to Democrat incumbent Steve Sisolak\u2019s 46.99% as of this reporting. Sisolak faced the same headwinds that Democrats across the country have faced in 2022. President Joe Biden\u2019s poor approval ratings along with high inflation, other &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1735665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735662","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}