NV-GOV 2022: Sisolak vs. Lombardo

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Tossup because Sisolak isn’t popular recently and Amodei has a strong base in Washoe.

Do the sos happen to live in amodei district?

No. Her old state senate seat is in one of the few educated suburbs in Las Vegas and has now flipped hands.

Speaking of her again what her plans for 2022?

She’s also like 69 and termed out of her SOS office.

I mean the president is 78

He can still run for another term though.

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Why are all the strong people going for Governor when one of them has an open shot at the Senate nomination? Stupid is as stupid does with the GOP. Lombardo seems like the strongest on paper. I’d fear him most if I were Sisolak.

If I were Sisolak I'd fear Rick Harrison as well if he runs and grabs the nomination, considering he's a famous Vegas businessman/celebrity. Or maybe he'll look like a total fool and lose embarrassingly.

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Wikipedia now lists Rick Harrison as a "declined" candidate, though the source they use is an interview from 2020 where he was undecided.

Kinda sucks since he was probably the best candidate the GOP had to offer for Nevada.

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Wikipedia now lists Rick Harrison as a "declined" candidate, though the source they use is an interview from 2020 where he was undecided.

Kinda sucks since he was probably the best candidate the GOP had to offer for Nevada.

The Rick Harrison who is the star of Pawn Stars? Why do you think he would have been a good candidate?

The power of memes, the power of memes.

He's from Vegas too so maybe that helps as well?

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I forgot to mention this when it happened a few days ago, but the GOP primary now has a certified lunatic.  Joey Gilbert is a former head injury victim professional boxer and now ambulance chaser personal injury lawyer whose billboard ads I have seen all over Reno.  He was proud to say that he was at the Capitol on 1/6, although denies that he went inside and hasn't been charged with anything.  Since then, he has started building a small but cult-like following of the typical people you might expect.

Republican Joey Gilbert told an applauding audience at the Ahern Hotel in Las Vegas over the weekend that he planned to challenge Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak in Nevada’s 2022 gubernatorial race, according to a video of the event posted on Facebook.

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Gilbert, a former professional boxer, said in his remarks Saturday that he believed Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election and was “still our president.”

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He positioned voter fraud allegations at the center of his campaign, falsely claimed COVID-19 vaccines were unproven and urged people not to take them. He also referred to the coronavirus as a “plandemic,” using a term that suggests the pandemic was intentionally created.

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Gilbert has spoken at events in rural Elko and Lander County celebrating local officials’ decisions to join the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, a right-wing group that believes county sheriffs have a duty to uphold the constitution that supersedes other elected officials up to the president.

He’s worked with local activists in rural counties to rescind mask mandates and filed lawsuits challenging restrictions put on businesses and places of worship to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

He has protested Black Lives Matter, COVID-19 restrictions on businesses, the teaching of critical race theory in schools and the results of the election.

Even being out on the surrounding streets near the capitol without going into the capitol can still count as “participating in 1/6” to a lot of people. I doubt Gilbert will get very close, but maybe he’ll just get the hardcore MAGA “Trump or bust” voters.