For all those thinking Joe Lombardo had an ounce of integrity left, think again!
Lombardo’s craven attempts to have it both ways on Donald Trump this past week – praising him in front of the Republican base while distancing himself on the debate stage – is our final confirmation that his only priority is political gain.
Read more about Lombardo’s disingenuous campaign below.
John L. Smith
October 9, 2022
Key Points:
- For a few minutes during last week’s gubernatorial debate, I thought candidate Joe Lombardo was going to have a genuine breakthrough. For a while, I started to believe he was having a certified political epiphany. I thought that he might just declare his independence from the cult of Donald Trump.
- One part that caught my attention came when Lombardo was asked whether Trump, the most disruptive American leader since mad King George III, qualified as a “great president.”
- “I wouldn’t call him a great president,” Lombardo continued. Then he dimmed the lights on his shining moment. “He was a sound president.”
- The gubernatorial debate came at an intriguing moment for Nevadans as early voting approaches for the November general election. Lombardo spoke up just days before Trump had scheduled a rally in the political hotbed of Minden, where only the cows outnumber the conservatives.
- A day after the debate, candidate Lombardo re-emerged and walked back his independent moment. He did so not on a debate stage, but with a lame campaign news release via Twitter that gushed, “By all measures, Donald J. Trump was a great President and his accomplishments are some of the most impactful in American history.”
- So much for that flicker of independence.
Read the full column here.
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