{"id":256795,"date":"2022-10-19T01:08:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T01:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=256795"},"modified":"2022-10-19T01:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T01:50:43","slug":"rgj-voter-guide-steve-sisolak-fights-joe-lombardo-for-4-more-years-in-governor-s-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/rgj-voter-guide-steve-sisolak-fights-joe-lombardo-for-4-more-years-in-governor-s-mansion","title":{"rendered":"RGJ voter guide: Steve Sisolak fights Joe Lombardo for 4 more years in governor&#8217;s mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Steve Sisolak&#8217;s 4-point gubernatorial triumph four years ago was tight, then the race this year for control of the governor&#8217;s mansion is razor thin. After spending his first term in office navigating an unprecedented pandemic, the first-term Democrat faces a tough challenge from the lone Republican who sat on his transition committee when he first took office in 2019: Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo. The two worked closely together after the October 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip,&nbsp;when Sisolak was&nbsp;chairman of the Clark County Commission. Nevada ballot guide : Candidates, issues defining 2022 general election USA TODAY\/Suffolk poll: Sisolak, Lombardo deadlocked in race for Nevada governor Now they&#8217;re political foes&nbsp;in a brutal race that has&nbsp;ping-ponged in the polls throughout the election season and has been rated by some experts as a &#8220;toss-up.&#8221; The most recent USA Today\/Suffolk University poll in a series of surveys this cycle&nbsp;found Lombardo leading Sisolak by less than a percentage point just weeks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Steve Sisolak&#8217;s 4-point gubernatorial triumph four years ago was tight, then the race this year for control of the governor&#8217;s mansion is razor thin.&#160; After spending his first term<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}