LAS VEGAS, Nev.—Surging Republican voter registration numbers portend a swelling red tide is set to sweep incumbent Nevada Democrats from the Governor’s office, U.S. Senate, and three of the state’s four congressional districts come November.
But former president Donald Trump missed the undercurrent driving the wave when he endorsed Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo for governor and former state attorney general Adam Laxalt for U.S. Senator in Nevada’s June 14 primaries, their GOP rivals maintain.
“I think it is unfortunate because Joe Lombardo is going to get crushed,” Republican gubernatorial candidate Joey Gilbert said during a June 12 rally before about 200 supporters in a shopping center circus tent less than two days before Election Day….