Nevada Attorney General and Democrat gubernatorial hopeful Aaron Ford fired off a hot take on X today.
He said the “Lombardo-Trump economy is rigged against working Nevadans trying their hardest to stay afloat.”
Strong line. Sounds tough. It also happens to fall apart the second you check the math.
This is how the game works. Liberals toss out a scary line, hope it sticks, and pray nobody looks deeper. So let’s look.
Ford wants you to believe that Gov. Joe Lombardo and President Trump cooked up some secret plan to sink Nevada families.
Like they’re in a smoky back room flipping through a big red ledger labeled “Destroy The Working Class.”
It sounds dramatic. It also sounds like something you say when your own policies helped break the engine.
What Ford Leaves Out
Here’s what he didn’t mention.
Inflation didn’t start with Trump. It didn’t start with Lombardo either. It exploded under Joe Biden after Democrats pumped trillions into the economy.
That wasn’t a rumor. It was on paper for everyone to see.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said federal overspending poured gasoline on inflation.
Even former Obama adviser Larry Summers called Biden’s early spending “the least responsible macroeconomic policy in decades.”
That’s a real quote. And it’s not from Fox News. It’s from CNN in 2021.
Ford knows this. He just hopes you forgot.
Look around Nevada. Prices shot up on everything from eggs to rent because the national economy went wild after Washington tried to spend its way out of every problem.
Las Vegas restaurant owners told Fox Business that food costs jumped more than 25 percent since 2021. Nevada families didn’t imagine that. They lived it.
That wasn’t the Lombardo-Trump economy. That was the Biden-Schumer-Pelosi economy.
The Facts Ford Ignores
While Ford screams rigged, let’s check Nevada’s numbers.
Nevada’s unemployment rate was 5.3 percent this summer. Not ideal. But the biggest job losses came from Democrat shutdowns during the pandemic.
Las Vegas got hammered when tourism collapsed. Trump didn’t shut down the Strip. Lombardo didn’t shut it down either. Democrat leaders did.
Meanwhile, Nevada’s state budget under Lombardo actually cut taxes for small businesses. And Trump’s 2017 tax cuts lowered federal taxes for most working families.
That isn’t “rigged.” That’s relief.
What about real wages?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that inflation under Biden wiped out wage gains in 2021 and 2022. Paychecks went up on paper. Buying power went down in real life.
That’s the part Ford leaves out. You can’t blame Trump for numbers Biden produced three years after Trump left office.
Here’s the simple truth.
When government spends too much, regulates too much, and taxes too much, working families get squeezed.
When government cuts spending, frees small businesses, and lets people keep more of their money, families breathe again.
Ford flips that logic upside down. He blames the people trying to fix the mess for the mess that already happened.
Nevadans know better.
They live with the results every time they buy groceries. Every time they fill the tank. Every time they look at rent prices and wonder why the guy running for governor thinks a tweet can fix it.
Why This Matters to Nevada
Ford isn’t just wrong. He’s selling a story. A story where Democrats break the economy, blame Republicans, then promise to fix the problem their own policies caused.
Nevada tried that for years. We got record homelessness, high crime, and schools ranked near the bottom. That’s the real “rigged” part. And Ford wants to double down.
So here’s the question every voter should ask. If Aaron Ford can’t tell the truth about what broke the economy, how can he fix it.
Because blaming Trump and Lombardo might get you likes on X. But it won’t put one more dollar in a Nevada family’s pocket.
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