Marty O’Donnell is way too extreme (and frankly, weird) to represent Nevada’s Third Congressional District in Congress.
New reporting from the Advocate shows that, when he’s not hosting neo-Nazi influencers on his podcast or downplaying Southern Nevada’s jobs crisis, O’Donnell is:
- Calling LGBTQ+ people “an existential threat” and saying they “pretend to be oppressed,”
- Ranting against marriage equality,
- Blasting Pride as “sinful” and saying he is “all for bringing back shame,”
- Hosting OTHER right-wing extremists on his podcast, or
- Arguing with his AI chatbot about people’s average number of sex partners (???)
Clearly unfit for office, O’Donnell has no business representing Southern Nevada families in Congress.
DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“Marty O’Donnell is an out-of-touch extremist with a dangerous, hateful agenda. Southern Nevadans know they have a proven, bipartisan problem solver in Susie Lee, and that’s why they’ll send her back to Congress this November.”
Read the reporting for yourself…
The Advocate: Trump-backed game composer says LGBTQ+ people are ‘existential threat’ to Western civilization
- Marty O’Donnell, the Trump-backed Republican nominee in a competitive congressional race, has described LGBTQ+ people as part of an alliance pushing Western civilization toward an “abyss.”
- “Talk about an existential, existential threat,” O’Donnell said. “We are on the cliff looking down into the abyss. And the abyss is Marxism, its anti-Western philosophy.”
- He then grouped LGBTQ+ people with Islamists and Marxists, accusing them of pretending to be oppressed. “There is a weird alliance of all these groups,” he said. “So the LGBTQ+ people, the Islamists, the Marxists, you know, they’re all together now.”
- During the same interview, O’Donnell invoked Christian doctrine to condemn Pride. “Pride is one of the seven deadly sins,” he said. “It’s always cracked me up that pride is the big banner for the woke.” O’Donnell added, “I’m all for bringing back shame.”
- Later, O’Donnell described arguing with an artificial intelligence chatbot after asking it to compare the lifetime number of sexual partners reported by different groups.
- “So, yes, it turns out that gay men have the largest number of sex partners over lives,” he said. O’Donnell said he then told the program, “Gay men are the most promiscuous,” and objected when it warned that the word carried a value judgment.
- In a June 2025 episode of The Marty O’Donnell Show, he hosted Ryan Helfenbein, a Liberty University executive who repeated the anti-LGBTQ+ trope that queer people recruit children. “One thing you need to understand about the LGBT movement is they don’t reproduce. They recruit,” Helfenbein said.
- “Right,” O’Donnell responded.
- “And they’re going to take your children from you,” Helfenbein continued.
- In an April 2025 podcast, O’Donnell said LGBTQ+ people had “co-opted” the rainbow, which he described as a symbol of God’s promise. “We have to figure out a way to take those things back,” he said. “Those people don’t get to own that stuff.”
- “It is an us-versus-them thing,” he added.
- A compilation of O’Donnell’s statements reviewed by The Advocate also documents his opposition to marriage equality.
- In 2024, O’Donnell wrote on X that marriage defined as “a union of one man and one woman isn’t just a Christian definition.” Same-sex marriages have been legal nationwide since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges.
- The Advocate asked O’Donnell’s campaign whether he stands by his anti-LGBTQ+ comments. The campaign did not respond.
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