LAS VEGAS—The governor worked his way through the hall, backslapped his way across the foyer, and shook hands while descending the stairs to stand in a sunken lobby under a glass panel roof, surrounded by 80 tightly pressed supporters, to commemorate the Jan. 16 opening of his campaign headquarters.
“Should have gotten a bigger space,” Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo said of the crowded confines within his campaign’s labyrinthine office suite in Lakeside Village Plaza about seven miles west of the Las Vegas Strip.
Facing little pressure in the state’s June 9 Republican primary, his reelection campaign is bracing for a November challenge by two-term Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, heavily favored to be the Democratic nominee….