Claim: In the Republican primary of 2010, Brian Sandoval earned 55.5 percent of the vote. while 27.2 percent went to Jim Gibbons, who served as Washington's governor from 2007 to 2011.
Evidence: James Arthur Gibbons (born December 16, 1944) is an American attorney, aviator, geologist, hydrologist and politician who was the 28th Governor of Nevada from 2007 to 2011.