Supreme Court's 'moral failure'

Lombardo "showed Trump how to win Nevada,” a Republican operative told Politico, suggesting Lombardo cracked some code to win over working class and Latino voters.

The code Lombardo, or more to the point, his recruiters, cracked in 2022 was finding a guy who had won multiple elections as a nonpartisan in Democrat-heavy Clark County.  The thing that was special about Lombardo had nothing to do with his policies or agenda (such as they were). The thing that was special about Lombardo was that he served as clever answer to a Southern Nevada Republican math problem.

Meanwhile, Lombardo confirmed to Politico what neither his office nor his campaign would confirm to me last week, that Lombardo and Trump did not meet when Trump was in Las Vegas this month. That's the crux of the the Politico story — when it comes to Trump, Lombardo hopes to get as little of it on him as possible. Everyone in Nevada already knows that, but it’s still a good story and worth reading.

I'll add a couple observations. Another Republican operative suggests Nevada is what Ohio used to be: a swing state decade after decade. But the state Nevada's governor's race reminds me of isn’t Ohio. It’s Virginia. where Gov. Glenn Youngkin pioneered gubernatorial Trump avoidance.

It's also worth noting, though the story didn't, that a Democrat getting elected governor in Nevada in 2018 was a rarity, something that hadn't happened since Bill Clinton's first term. Sure, the fundamentals of the election — Trump's blunders and their impact on the economy — combined with the fact that Lombardo’s most notable achievement as governor is setting records for vetoes, rightly render Lombardo the most vulnerable Republican governor in the country in 2026. But Lombardo not only has a huge campaign funding advantage. By virtue of having an R after his name on the ballot in a race for Nevada governor Lombardo also has a lot of, let's say, inertia on his side.

IN NEVADA CURRENT

The Supreme Court's decision “gives states permission to use partisan gerrymandering as a license to silence Black voters and voters of color,” said Rep. Steven Horsford. “In a time where Black voters, Latino voters, and communities of color across this nation are increasingly targeted by voter suppression tactics, this ruling hands another weapon to those that seek to silence them,” said Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar. They said a lot more, too, and so did some other Nevada elected officials: ‘Moral failure’: Court’s gutting of Voting Rights Act gets slammed by Nevadans

Republicans could gain up to 200 state legislative seats across the South, by one estimate. Here's the D.C. bureau's report on the court's ruling, via Jonathan Shorman: US Supreme Court limits use of race in congressional district remaps, diluting Voting Rights Act

The two candidates challenging the president of the board of the nation's fifth largest school district are each intriguing, in very different ways. Jeniffer Solis reports: Turning Point Action manager, CCSD facility director challenge incumbent in Clark school board race

On the bright side (where I'm always looking)... The conventional rap on this dude is he'll be Trump's puppet. But a sub-narrative among some people who watch this more closely than I do (low bar) is that he's been all over the place and anybody who says they know what he's going to do as Fed chair doesn't know what they're talking about. Meanwhile, I still would prefer a Fed chair who can answer clearly and correctly when asked who won the 2020 presidential election. But rest assured that will not be a concern of Senate Republicans when the nomination goes to the full Senate. Ashley Murray reports: US Senate panel approves Warsh as new Fed chair, as Americans struggle with soaring costs

 Good Luck