The owner of a brothel, Hof, will win the vote in Nevada: campaign manager

(Reuters) – A Republican candidate with a brothel and a member of the Nevada state legislature, who died this week, will remain on the ballot and win his election in November, his campaign director announced Wednesday.

Deceased Tuesday, Dennis Hof, 72, has presented himself as the most famous pimp in the United States and the owner of a strip club that ran several brothels. He was nicknamed the "Trump of Pahrump", after the city where he lived in Nevada.

"I feel very comfortable predicting that he will still win the elections on November 6," campaign director Chuck Muth said in an interview, adding that Republicans have had the chance to win. a 2-by-1 advantage over Democrats in the district's state registration assembly.

Hof was running to occupy a seat in a very republican district and had had the preference to take it away.

When elected, the Reno Gazette newspaper reported that the vacancy in several constituencies will be filled through a joint meeting process chaired by county commissioners.

The Democratic presidential candidate, Lesia Romanov, was not immediately available for comment.

"Many Republicans have been uncomfortable voting for Dennis because of the nature of his business and they now know that he is not the one who will serve," Muth said.

"They will feel much more comfortable voting for him, knowing that another Republican will replace him," he added.

In an interview in June with one of his brothels, Hof said his political fortunes had a parallel with those of US President Donald Trump.

"It's really the Trump movement," Hof said in an interview with Moonlite BunnyRanch, his brothel near his home in Pahrump. "People will leave aside their moral beliefs, their religious beliefs, to find someone who is honest in his duties."

After Hof won the nomination contest at the June assembly headquarters, evangelicals in his district said they voted for him because they thought he would clean up politics and not be held accountable interest groups and their money.

The author of "The Art of the Pimp", published three times and appearing on HBO's "Cathouse", owned a striptease club and five legal brothels in Nevada, the only US state to legalize prostitution.