Nevada attorney general since January 2019. Former state senator and Senate majority leader. Campaign affiliation: Democratic.
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Background, stated goals, record, and money
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Nevada joined a $1.7 billion settlement with student loan company Navient. His office said 592 Nevadans would get $17.1 million in loan cancellation. Office of the Nevada Attorney General
SB 35, filed on behalf of his office, became law. It made 28 grams of illegally made fentanyl a trafficking crime. Nevada Legislature, Nevada Legislature
In January 2022, Nevada and other states settled with Navient for $1.7 billion. His office said 592 Nevadans would get $17,140,858 in loan cancellation and 3,952 would share $1,053,752 in payments.
Nevada joined 20 other attorneys general in suing on March 13, 2025. A federal court blocked the layoffs on May 22, 2025. On July 14, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court paused that order while the case goes on.
His consumer protection office challenged the charge and took it to court. On May 26, 2026, a Clark County judge ruled against his office, and he said he would appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court.
A consent judgment filed April 15, 2026 in Clark County District Court has Roblox pay $10 million and check users' ages before they can chat, among other rules.
Senate Bill 35 was filed in November 2022 on behalf of the attorney general. It made 28 grams or more of illegally made fentanyl a trafficking crime; other drug trafficking starts at 100 grams. It became law on June 14, 2023. On April 18, 2024, his office won a unanimous Nevada Supreme Court ruling that upheld the state's 2021 ghost gun ban.
Limit: His office asked for the bill; the Legislature passed it and the governor signed it. On ghost guns, his office defended the 2021 ban in court.
Aaron D. Ford
Silver State Opportunity Grant
Record does not bear out the claim
What they say
His campaign says that as Senate majority leader he sponsored the bill that created the Silver State Opportunity Grant, a college grant for low-income students.
“As state senate majority leader, Ford sponsored the bill to create the Silver State Opportunity Grant”
Senate Bill 227 created the grant in 2015. Its sponsors were Senators Kieckhefer, Kihuen, Harris and Woodhouse. Ford voted for it but was not a sponsor. He was minority leader that session.
Limit: In 2017, as majority leader, he was a lead sponsor of SB 391, which created a different community college scholarship, the Nevada Promise Scholarship. Two 2017 bills on the Silver State grant were filed by others and did not pass.
Aaron D. Ford
Data center tax breaks
Not comparable yet
What they say
His campaign says data centers should get no new tax breaks until they prove they are keeping their side of the deal, and that he will re-examine the breaks they get now.
“stop awarding tax breaks for data centers until they prove that they're holding up their end of the bargain”
In 2015, as a state senator, he was one of six lead sponsors of Senate Bill 170, which created a partial tax break for new or expanding data centers. He voted for it; the Senate passed it 21 to 0, and it became law on June 9, 2015. The break is still in state law. It came with conditions: at least 10 Nevada employees, at least the statewide average wage, and at least $25 million invested, and a data center that stops meeting them has to repay the break.
On February 20, 2024, he signed a letter from state attorneys general asking congressional leaders to reform PBM practices. It named three PBM bills it said deserve debate. On April 14, 2025, he signed another asking Congress to pass a law barring PBMs from owning or running pharmacies.
Clark County's ballot order lists three candidates for governor: Aaron D. Ford (Democratic), Danielle Ford (no party) and Joseph Lombardo (Republican), plus "None of these candidates."