Gov. Joe Lombardo raised more than $3.2 million in 2024 and has more than $5.5 million in cash on hand as the Republican governor gears up for his second legislative session and a high-profile re-election campaign.
The massive haul marked the largest fundraising and cash on hand numbers for a sitting governor at this point in their re-election campaign. By comparison, former Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, had raised $2.4 million two years ahead of his re-election campaign.
Additionally, Lombardo’s Nevada Way PAC had an estimated $3 million in cash on hand at the end of 2024, about three times the cash on hand than Sisolak’s PAC had two years ago.
The hauls were revealed Monday in Lombardo’s latest campaign finance reports, which came two days before he is set to deliver his State of the State address ahead of the 2025 legislative session, a four-month period that will likely prove critical to his re-election campaign. Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat, told The Nevada Independent last month that he was eyeing a run for governor in 2026.
Lombardo’s haul included hundreds of thousands of dollars from the resort industry. His PAC also received $100,000 from the Citizens for Justice, the political arm of a group representing Nevada trial lawyers that is actively feuding with Uber about attorney fees that is likely to spill into the legislative session.
Warner Bros. Discovery, a key player in the fight over the state’s film tax credit, also donated $7,500 to Lombardo’s PAC.
