WATCH Aaron Ford on MS NOW: Nevadans “Have a Governor Who Lies Down. I Stand Up. I Stand Up Against Donald Trump”

WATCH Aaron Ford on MS NOW: Nevadans "Have a Governor Who Lies Down. I Stand Up. I Stand Up Against Donald Trump"

Yesterday, Nevada gubernatorial nominee Aaron Ford joined MS NOW's Politics Nation to discuss how he's entering the general election with a clear focus on affordability and standing up to Donald Trump as the Lombardo-Trump economy devastates Nevadans.

Nevada is a top pick-up opportunity this cycle as Lombardo's failed leadership and support for Trump's cost-raising agenda makes him the most vulnerable governor up for reelection in the country this cycle.

MS NOW: Aaron Ford Discusses Nevada Gubernatorial Race on MS NOW with Al Sharpton

Watch the full interview HERE, with key excerpts below:

"We are suffering from what is called the Lombardo-Trump economy. We have a governor who has ignored the circumstances of regular Nevadans on every single day basis. This Lombardo Trump economy has led to higher housing prices, our gas prices, higher grocery prices, our health care system… prices are going higher and higher on a daily basis, and what we have, instead of a governor who's looking out for what I call the entirety of the Nevada family, is someone who cow tows and kisses up to Donald Trump. He is becoming Donald Trump's doormat, always lying down, afraid to stand up for the football, Nevadans, and Nevadans deserve an individual who's going to be a champion, looking out for Nevada families, and that's going to be me."

"When these tariffs were put out, you should have, you should have seen Joe Lombardo, who knows that our economy runs on tourism, stand up against those tariffs and tell the president that it was a bad idea and that it would be detrimental to our state. He didn't. Instead, he said we, as Nevadans, should, and I quote, feel a little pain. We don't need pain, we need leadership."

"Our state is going to have an attorney, a governor, and me, who is going to pass bills that are going to improve opportunities to purchase homes… We're going to tackle health care by looking at the prescription drug prices and capping some of those at the Medicare negotiated price…"

"Anyone who was hurting Nevadans, I stand up against. I've beaten Donald Trump in court dozens of times, and that's just this term. His first term, I beat him upwards of 100 times, working with other colleagues of mine."

"I was a single parent in college, living on food stamps that kept my son and me fed, Medicaid kept us [healthy], and so when I see those things under attack, I stand up and fight back, and I sued to get the 500,000 Nevadans their SNAP benefits, while Joe Lombardo was in Washington, DC, kissing up to Donald Trump to get an endorsement. That's the kind of fighter that we need, someone like me who's going to be able to stand up and push back against nonsense and defend Nevadans."

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