US Midterms 2026
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Republican governor of Nevada since 2023 and former Clark County sheriff, seeking a second term against Democratic attorney general Aaron Ford in 2026.
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Joseph Michael Lombardo, whose father was an Air Force veteran, was born in Sapporo, Japan, on November 8, 1962, and lived in Japan for more than a decade before the family relocated to Las Vegas in 1976.
He finished Rancho High School in 1980 and enlisted in the United States Army, with service in both the Army Reserve and the Nevada National Guard, until 1986.
He earned a civil engineering degree and a master's degree in crisis management at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and in 2006 he attended the FBI National Academy.
In 1988 Lombardo became an officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, advancing through its ranks and becoming sergeant in 1996, lieutenant in 2001, captain in 2006 and assistant sheriff in 2011.
In the 2014 election for Clark County sheriff he won the primary and then narrowly defeated Democrat Larry Burns, and was sworn in on January 5, 2015, as the county's 17th sheriff and head of a department with more than 5,000 officers.
He oversaw the investigation of the 2017 Mandalay Bay mass shooting and won a second term in 2018. In 2022 he ran for governor, won the Republican primary on June 14 with 38.3% over a field that included former senator Dean Heller, and defeated Democratic governor Steve Sisolak by 15,386 votes.
He was sworn in as Nevada's 31st governor on January 2, 2023. In office he signed legislation providing public funding toward a ballpark for the relocating Oakland Athletics and a 2023 law protecting people who travel to Nevada for abortions as well as the state's abortion providers.
Lombardo calls himself a moderate Republican.
Lombardo is running for a second term in the November 3, 2026, election. In the June 9 primaries he won 91.0% to take the Republican nomination. His opponent is Democratic attorney general Aaron Ford, who took his party's nomination with 63.8%, defeating Washoe County commission chair Alexis Hill.
