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 Nevada's governor from 2007 to 2011.
Evidence: Brian Sandoval 55.5 Jim Gibbons (incumbent) 27.2 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.