LAS VEGAS, June 10 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford won the Democratic nomination for governor on Tuesday, taking 60 percent of the vote in election-night returns, and within hours of the polls closing he had already written the script for the next five months, telling supporters that Nevadans have seen what their state looks like when Joe Lombardo, in his words Trump's human doormat, is at the helm.

Ford defeated Washoe County Commission chair Alexis Hill by a wide margin, celebrating what he called a decisive victory on stage with his wife Berna Rhodes-Ford at the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 headquarters in Las Vegas, the ritual launching pad of Democratic campaigns in the state, the Las Vegas Sun reported. He pledged to win ...