After shamelessly going along with the Big Lie, Lombardo’s craven politics are now backfiring
After a weak showing in the primary, coming in third place in 7 out of 15 of Nevada’s reddest counties, and admitting he wasn’t able to coalesce the base throughout an “adversarial” primary, things just keep getting worse for Joe Lombardo.
As Joey Gilbert refuses to concede, continues crying fraud and threatening lawsuits, it doesn’t look like Lombardo will be coalescing this base any time soon. Let’s not forget that Lombardo played his own role casting doubt on our elections – taking the stage with prominent election deniers while his PAC was called out for pushing baseless election fraud claims.
Read more about Lombardo’s base troubles:
- “Maybe the establishment and swamp rats forgot who they’re dealing with,” Gilbert wrote on his campaign’s Facebook page late Tuesday, complete with a rat emoji. “I smell a lawsuit because this STINKS!“
- “No one likes No Show Joe,” Gilbert said late Tuesday, “and he absolutely is not beating me, and will not beat me in a fair fight/race.”
- Yet Gilbert doubled down in a new Facebook post, writing that he refuses to concede until every vote is “legitimately” counted and signaling a possible lawsuit — even despite updated results from the Secretary of State’s office on Thursday further solidifying Lombardo’s victory in the crowded primary contest.
- Republican gubernatorial candidate Joey Gilbert, who came in second place in Tuesday’s primary election, is not conceding to Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo and appeared to signal a possible lawsuit in social media posts.
- With most votes counted from Tuesday’s primary election in Nevada, Republican gubernatorial candidate Joey Gilbert said he will not concede as he disputes the mail-in voting process.
- “No, I have not and will not concede until every legal vote is counted, legitimately,” Gilbert wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday. This is bigger than me and I am not disputing anything more than the process of how we got here, and are apparently still getting here as more and more votes roll in, days after the election.”
Las Vegas Sun: Win or lose, Nevada Republican candidates continue to allege voter fraud
- After Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo won the GOP nomination, Gilbert in a Facebook post proclaimed he “smells a lawsuit because this stinks.”
- “I will concede nothing,” he wrote in the post. “No one likes No Show Joe and he absolutely is not beating me, and will not beat me in a fair fight/race. There’s a reason a real fighter with real legal teams is in this fight. We fix our elections, and we fix everything. Standby.”
- Joe Lombardo, the former Clark County sheriff who rebranded in the primary as a hardline right-winger, is projected by the Associated Press to defeat Gilbert, a COVID truther and voter fraud conspiracy theorist who marched on the Capitol on Jan. 6. Lombardo led Gilbert 38.4% to 27.6% with 82% of precincts reporting Wednesday morning.
- Gilbert immediately declared that he would not concede the race and may even file a lawsuit contesting the race.
- “Maybe the establishment and swamp rats forgot who they’re dealing with,” he wrote on Facebook, adding a rat emoji. “I smell a lawsuit because this STINKS! I will concede nothing. No one likes No Show Joe and he absolutely is not beating me, and will not beat me in a fair fight/race. There’s a reason a real fighter with real legal teams is in this fight.”
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