NV-03 U.S. House, Nevada
NV-03
Rubric: 5 Championed · 4 Supportive · 3 Mixed / limited · 2 Leaning against · 1 Opposed · NR Bounded search
NV-03 race breakdown
Nevada's 3rd District (Clark County: Summerlin, Spring Valley (including the Las Vegas Chinatown / Spring Mountain corridor), Enterprise, part of Henderson) The AAPI Civic Engagement Fund reported 82,290 Asian citizen voting-age residents in NV-03, 14% of citizen adults, in 2022. APIAVote's separate 2024 statewide estimate is 11.97% AAPI electorate. These do not establish a current 12-14% district electorate range. (Fund; APIAVote).
Competitiveness: Cook has rated the race Likely D since October 9, 2026; DDHQ also rates it Likely D. O'Donnell loaned his campaign $3M and holds a Trump endorsement.
Susie Lee Democrat · Incumbent since 2019
Career education nonprofit leader; founded After-School All-Stars Las Vegas and chaired Communities In Schools of Nevada. CAPAC member. Appropriations Committee.
Cosponsor of the bipartisan DIGNIDAD Act of 2025 (H.R. 4393). Told The Nevada Independent "All undocumented immigrants should be deported: No" and criticized "indiscriminate terrorizing of our immigrant communities." One of 14 Democrats voting for the January 2024 GOP "open borders" resolution. Voted YEA on the Laken Riley Act (Jan 2025). Voted against the January 2026 ICE funding bill. No H-1B or visa record (congress.gov; Nevada Independent Q&A, Sep 2026).
Supportive on housing supply, limited on the neighborhood side. Voted YEA on final House passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (House Roll Call 224, June 23, 2026). Announced a $466,000 community-project investment in Nevada H.A.N.D. for the housing shortage (Apr 2026). Nothing found in the checked sources on rezoning or the Chinatown/Spring Mountain corridors; zoning is county jurisdiction (GovTrack; KLAS/8NewsNow, Feb 2026). Rating basis: A direct supportive housing-supply vote establishes specific support. Neighborhood- specific rezoning is not required for this score.
Long, verifiable pro-public-education record matching her nonprofit career. Introduced bipartisan bills to fully fund Title I and IDEA, the Earn to Learn Act matched-savings bill (Aug 2026), and the Full-Service Community School Expansion Act of 2026. No AANHPI- history-specific record was found in the checked sources and she is not a cosponsor of the Teaching AANHPI History Act (susielee.house.gov). [susielee.house.gov] Rating basis: Sustained education leadership: education-nonprofit work and repeated community- school authorship in 2023 and 2026, alongside funding proposals. No AANHPI-history bill or enacted version of these proposals is claimed.
Not a cosponsor of H.R. 7223. Cosponsored H.Res. 908 on March 27, 2020 and voted Yea on September 17. The resolution condemns anti-Asian sentiment and recommits to language access and inclusive communication. It is nonbinding and COVID-specific, not an enacted interpreter-services program. (cosponsors; adopted text; vote). Rating basis: Nonbinding, multipart and 2020-dated language-access resolution cosponsorship/Yea. Limited supportive evidence, consistent with 3 for symbolic language-access advocacy rather than enacted services.
Voted YES on the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act (House Roll Call 145, May 18, 2021) with a statement pledging to "always fight for southern Nevada's Asian American and Pacific Islander communities." Engagement since includes CAPAC membership, a 2020 ACDC COVID roundtable, a 2025 Las Vegas Asian Chamber keynote and the 2026 National AANHPI Advocacy Day. No evidence she originated hate-crimes legislation (House Clerk).
Marty O'Donnell Republican
Composer co-credited with the Halo and Destiny soundtracks. Never held elected office; finished 4th in the 2024 primary. $3M self-loan; Trump-endorsed.
Rated on statements only. Answered "Mostly yes" to "All undocumented immigrants should be deported" and "Yes" to the SAVE Act's proof-of-citizenship registration requirement (Nevada Independent Q&A, Sep 2026). His site demands "ending the magnets that cause illegal immigration" and praises Trump for ending benefits access. His stated focus is illegal immigration and border enforcement. No H-1B, green-card or asylum positions found (Nevada Independent; martyforcongress.vote).
In the September 2026 questionnaire answered "Mostly yes" on the Clark County lands bill and called for faster federal-land development to increase housing supply and bring down rents and home prices. This is a specific housing-development position, not municipal zoning authority or a Chinatown-corridor plan. (Nevada Independent). Rating basis: Specific faster federal-land housing-development proposal. Same 4 threshold as specific supply proposals elsewhere, notwithstanding no municipal zoning power.
No verifiable K-12 or higher-education platform. His site has no education section and the Sept 2026 Q&A asked no education question. Unverifiable Facebook snippets suggest school-choice support; flagged low-confidence and not graded (martyforcongress.vote).
No relevant record was found in the checked sources. No campaign-site content, no statements on multilingual services or the March 2025 English-official executive order, no record of engagement with the issue. He declined the Nevada Current's interview request.
In a September 7, 2026 interview condemned antisemitism and said both parties should condemn extremism. The remarks link antisemitism to his criticism of Marxism and the DSA. This is anti-hate speech, not a verified anti-AAPI initiative, hate-crime bill or enacted policing record. (Washington Reporter interview). Rating basis: Explicit antisemitism condemnation is anti-hate speech under the guide's broad safety issue, but no anti-AAPI bill or implementation.