It’s hard to unseat an incumbent governor. But Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has a plan to try.
The Democrat announced his campaign for governor on Monday, entering the race with just over 10 months to go until the primary.
Once a recipient of food stamps and Medicaid benefits, Ford now plans to run against Republicans’ cuts to those same programs, which he says will deeply impact Nevadans.
“It was Medicaid that enabled my son and me to have the health care we needed in order to be able to survive. It was food stamps that kept us fed,” Ford said in an interview, explaining that he and his son used these programs for a year and a half when…
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