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Republican Dennis Hof is set to win a seat in the Nevada state assembly - despite being dead for three weeks.

Hof, the owner of several legal brothels in rural Nevada, died at his Love Ranch, in Crystal, on October 16.

Despite his death he was still widely predicted to win his seat - and so it has proven.

He’s comfortable bea Democrat Lesia Romanov with 68% of the votes to 32%.

“It’s kind of like Moses,” campaign manager Chuck Muth told ThinkProgress on Tuesday. “He’s not going to make it to the promised land with us… but we hope he’s watching from the great beyond.”

Commissioners from the three counties composing the district—Nye, Lincoln, and Clark—will appoint a representative from the same party.

Hof was an eccentric character - calling himself the "Trump of Pahrump".

And The New Yorker reports he had a lot in common with the President, including multiple rape allegations, an innate gift for publicity stunts, grifting, and misogyny, and a public image made palatable by a book deal and reality TV.

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He spent the evening before he died celebrating his seventy-second birthday with a political rally at the Pahrump Nugget, the ritziest hotel and casino in town.

Also there was Joe Arpaio - th sheriff Trump pardoned.

And perhaps even more bizarrely porn star Ron Jeremy was at the after party at Hof's Love Ranch.

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The next morning, Jeremy went to Hof’s suite, to rouse him for a campaign event at the Pahrump Senior Center, and found him dead.

Speaking outside Love Ranch Jeremy said: “Right now, as we speak, you’ve got Flavor Flav crying his eyes out.”

That's right. Flavor Flav was at the after party too.

Hof is also linked to the Kardashians. Khloe's then husband Lamar Odom overdosed at Love Ranch in October 2015.

In fact, Hof died in the same suite and the same bed where Odom nearly asphyxiated.

According to The New Yorker Hof's continued success is based on water.

Hof’s billboards read “I’ll Fight for Your Water,” with fears the parched county could dry up.

An autopsy into Hof's death is under way.