“Aaron Ford officially launched the northern flank of his 2026 campaign for Nevada governor Wednesday at a packed Teamsters union office in Reno”

Yesterday, Attorney General Aaron Ford held his campaign launch event in Reno at Teamsters Local 533 alongside state Senators Skip Daly and Angie Taylor and Reno City Councilman Miguel Martinez. In a room of about 50 people, Ford spoke to voters about his plans to lower costs by bringing prescription drug prices down to the Medicare-negotiated price for all Nevadans and limiting out of state corporations from buying up homes and pricing Nevada families out of their neighborhoods. He also doubled down on his commitment to guarantee school meals to all Nevada public school students just days after news broke that Washoe County parents are in more than $100,000 of school lunch debt due to Lombardo’s veto of guaranteed school meals.

Earlier this week, General Ford announced that he’d earned the endorsements of the majority of Democratic state legislators. Last week, he secured the endorsements of Nevada’s entire Democratic Congressional Delegation.

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Reno Gazette Journal: Aaron Ford makes case for unseating Gov. Joe Lombardo at Reno campaign event

• Aaron Ford officially launched the northern flank of his 2026 campaign for Nevada governor Wednesday at a packed Teamsters union office in Reno.

• The state’s attorney general, Ford is the Democratic frontrunner to take on incumbent Republican Joe Lombardo.

• He told the noisy crowd of about 50 that he would be a bipartisan governor.

• “I’ve sued both the Trump and Biden administrations because, to me, it doesn’t matter what side of the aisle you're on,” Ford said. “If you are doing something that hurts Nevada families, I'm not backing down.”

• In Reno, he was introduced by Reno City Councilman Miguel Martinez and offered endorsements by Skip Daly and an energetic Angie Taylor, both state senators from Washoe County.

• Nevada is one of the few states expected to have a close governor’s race in 2026. Among election forecasters, The Cook Political Report rates Nevada as one of only two states — along with Georgia — where governor’s race is considered a toss-up for which party will win.

• Ford attacked Lombardo for Nevada’s problems with housing, health care costs, education and jobs.

• “Our unemployment rate is the worst in the nation and has been for the last year,” he said.

• “Joe Lombardo has spent more money than any Nevada governor in recent history, and we have nothing to show for it. That’s not leadership, that’s letting us down.”

• Asked why he thinks he can win against this backdrop, Ford noted that he received more votes in 2022 in his race for attorney general against Republican Sigal Chattah than Lombardo did against Sisolak in the governor’s race.

• Ford got 511,263 votes in his victory while Lombardo received 497,377 in his.

• “The reason why we won that race is because we took no one for granted and talked to everyone, answering questions for them, listening to them, figuring out what was important to them,” Ford said of the attorney general’s race.

• Ford said people should look at his record, emphasizing again his lawsuits against Biden and Trump.

• “I do it irrespective of party,” he said.

• He also mentioned his time as Senate majority leader in the Nevada Legislature.

• “I have worked with both Democrats and Republicans,” Ford said, “to bring in new sectors like tech, clean energy and advanced manufacturing to create more good-paying jobs all across our state.”

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