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{"id":23933,"date":"2026-06-10T04:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-backed-marty-odonnell-wins-primary-for-battleground-nevada-house-seat\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T04:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:02:24","slug":"trump-backed-marty-odonnell-wins-primary-for-battleground-nevada-house-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-backed-marty-odonnell-wins-primary-for-battleground-nevada-house-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-backed Marty O\u2019Donnell wins primary for battleground Nevada House seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Trump-endorsed Marty O\u2019Donnell won the GOP primary Tuesday to take on Democratic Rep. Susie Lee in Nevada\u2019s battleground 3rd District.<\/p>\n<p>The seat, which touches parts of Las Vegas, is one of Republicans\u2019 targeted pickups this November since President Donald Trump carried it by less than 1 percentage point in 2024 after losing it by nearly seven points in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>But O\u2019Donnell \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrcc.org\/2026\/04\/27\/nrcc-adds-marty-odonnell-to-maga-majority-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">also has the backing<\/a> of the National Republican Congressional Committee \u2014 will face an uphill battle. He recently came under fire <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2026\/05\/marty-odonnell-nevada-gop-candidate-podcast-new-nazi\/\" target=\"_blank\">for hosting a neo-Nazi influencer on his podcast<\/a>. Trump\u2019s tariffs have hit the district hard, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/25\/canadians-vegas-democrats-tariffs-nevada-00935098?nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian tourism to Sin City down by 17 percent<\/a>, leaving Democrats confident they can hold the seat.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell is best known for his role as the audio composer for the \u201cHalo\u201d video game series. It\u2019s his second run in the district after placing fourth in the 2024 Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell bested several candidates Tuesday, with businessperson Tera Anderson and former Ambassador to Iceland Jeff Gunter \u2014 who ran for Senate in 2024 \u2014 putting up the most significant challenges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump-endorsed Marty O\u2019Donnell won the GOP primary Tuesday to take on Democratic Rep. Susie Lee in Nevada\u2019s battleground 3rd District. The seat, which touches parts of Las Vegas, is one of Republicans\u2019 targeted pickups this November since President Donald Trump carried it by less than 1 percentage point in 2024 after losing it by nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}