Housing Emerges as Top Issue in Purple Nevada’s Gubernatorial Election

Gov. Joe Lombardo dismisses Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford’s initiatives as ‘copied’ from his plan, which he says is lowering costs for renters, homebuyers.

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo speaks to more than 80 campaign staffers, volunteers, and donors crammed into his campaign headquarters in Lakeside Village Plaza in Las Vegas on Jan. 16, 2025. John Haughey/The Epoch Times

LAS VEGAS—The governor worked his way through the hall, backslapped his way across the foyer, and shook hands while descending the stairs to stand in a sunken lobby under a glass panel roof, surrounded by 80 tightly pressed supporters, to commemorate the Jan. 16 opening of his campaign headquarters.

“Should have gotten a bigger space,” Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo said of the crowded confines within his campaign’s labyrinthine office suite in Lakeside Village Plaza about seven miles west of the Las Vegas Strip.