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Nevada Elects Ford and Reminds the Governor's Office That the House Can Change Hands
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Democrat Aaron Ford defeated Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo in Nevada, NPR reported. Ford, the state's attorney general, is set to become Nevada's first Black governor. The result gives Democrats a governorship held by a Republican incumbent and adds another milestone to an election night with several historic firsts. A governor's race asks voters to choose who will manage state government, not simply who can deliver the most memorable campaign line. Ford's victory means the next occupant of the office arrives with experience as attorney general and a new set of responsibilities. Lombardo, despite holding the job going into the election, will not get to continue it. The result also complicates the comforting incumbent assumption that already having the office is the best advertisement for keeping it. Voters can inspect the current arrangement and decide they would prefer a different one. In Nevada, they chose a change at the top of state government and made history in the process. Ford's first will be recorded in the state's history books; the daily work will be recorded in budgets, decisions and legislation. The ceremonial photograph may be quicker to arrange than any of those. Once the celebration ends, the new governor will find that the title comes with a full calendar and no guarantee that the other participants agree on the agenda.
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