Joe Lombardo (R) with sizable leads over Attorney General Aaron Ford (D) in the race for governor. The surveys buck a trend in already-released surveys — including one commissioned by Democrats — that showed a neck-and-neck race for governor. The three polls show Lombardo ahead of Ford by 9, 12 and 7 percentage points. "The trend is unmistakable," reads a memo by the Better Nevada PAC, an arm of Lombardo's political apparatus that has already spent or reserved $20 million in ad space this cycle. One poll by Wedgewood Polls — a firm with little polling history — found Lombardo up 3 points in mid-June.