The American Prospect: AG Ford Focuses on Working-class, Promises to Expand Affordability

“[Ford has] the only 2026 platform I know of that features a promise to repeal his state’s “right-to-work” law.”

A new deep dive by The American Prospect highlights how the Nevada Governor’s race is a contest between a working-class champion in Aaron Ford and a doormat for Trump and his “billionaire friends” in Joe Lombardo. The reporting emphasizes how Ford is focusing his campaign on lowering the sky-high costs Nevadans are paying for gas, groceries, and housing in the Lombardo-Trump economy, while Lombardo hides behind debunked attack ads to mask his record of raising Nevadans’ costs. The Prospect also details Ford’s strength among 

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• Ford is campaigning on working-class economic themes that stand out, even amidst all the other such campaigns that Democrats are waging across the nation this fall. 

• Ford’s attacks on Lombardo center on the governor’s opposition to policies that would make life in Nevada more affordable, like his support for subsidies to data centers and his vetoes of bills passed by the Democratic legislature. 

• This includes bills that would have capped the cost of prescription drugs at levels negotiated, or to be negotiated, by Medicare; provided paid family leave to Nevada workers; prohibited private equity and big banks from the mass purchase and ownership of housing; and established universal free breakfasts and lunches for K-12 schoolchildren.

• Lombardo’s campaign, by contrast, doesn’t focus on policy very much. Rather it’s rooted in attacks on Ford, less for the policies he’s supported than for what it claims are Ford’s self-interested and alien-to-Nevada priorities. 

• Ford is not only running on a working-class platform; he also touts his working-class roots. When he was growing up in Houston, he told the Teamsters, “My dad [who worked at a supermarket] brought home old, unsold candy bars for me to eat. I was no highfalutin rich kid with a silver spoon in my mouth. We didn’t even have a spoon.” 

• DURING HIS MEETING WITH THE TEAMSTERS, one member asked Ford what his “three top issues” would be if he became governor. “I have only one top issue,” he replied. “Affordability. We have to deal simultaneously with housing costs, the price of health care, and utility bills. We ain’t got the time to go one at a time.”

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