Why AP called Nevada governor for Joe Lombardo
Nov 11, 2022, 4:57 AM | Updated: 7:03 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Joe Lombardo outpaced Nevada Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak in the newly counted votes coming in from the state’s biggest counties.
The Associated Press determined that votes from Las Vegas’ Clark County and Reno’s Washoe County weren’t being won by Sisolak by large enough margins to make up the incumbent’s difference with Lombardo given the number of outstanding ballots.
That’s why AP called the race Friday for Lombardo.
The count of ballots in Nevada took several days partly due to a provision of a mail voting law passed in 2020 that requires counties to accept ballots postmarked by Election Day if they arrive up to four days later.
Elections authorities in Clark and Washoe counties, the state’s most heavily populated, warned up front that it would take days to process all the ballots again this year.
Lombardo, the sheriff of the county that includes Las Vegas, praised former President Donald Trump as ” the greatest president,” after declining to say he was “great” during his and Sisolak’s only debate.
The about-face came as Lombardo sought to secure the fervently pro-Trump base in what appeared to be a close contest with the Democratic incumbent.
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