Aaron Ford will become the next governor of Nevada.

Ford, a Democrat, won the state’s gubernatorial race, defeating Republican incumbent Joe Lombardo, according to the Associated Press, which called the race at 1:46 a.m. PST Wednesday.

As of early results posted just after 6 a.m. Wednesday, Ford was ahead 51.7 percent to Gov. Joe Lombardo’s 44.2 percent. Ford, the state’s attorney general, will be Nevada’s first Black governor.

In an email issued at about 2:20 a.m. Wednesday, a campaign spokesperson said Ford’s win “belongs to the housekeepers, nurses, teachers, rideshare drivers, electricians, and all working Nevadans who will no longer have to settle for working harder than ever yet struggling more and more to afford to live.

“Governor-elect Aaron Ford overcame being outspent by tens of millions in this race thanks to the strength of his movement of working people fighting for a Nevada we can all afford to call home,” Ford for Governor Communications Director Tai Sims said in the email.…