A new poll shows that Trump-appointed former Ambassador to Iceland Jeff Gunter continues to dominate the rest of the field running for the Republican nomination in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District.
The results from the RMC poll show that Ambassador Gunter remains as the steady favorite, with 34.1 percent of respondents stating that they would support him in the primary election if it were held today. Comparatively, Marty O’Donnell comes in second place with 8.6 percent, Aury Nagy comes in third with 5.4 percent, and Tera Anderson comes in fourth with 5.1 percent.
This shows Ambassador Gunter maintaining a strong lead since the last poll for support in the Congressional race was conducted in November. That poll showed 44.4 percent of respondents supporting Gunter with Marty O’Donnell in second with 10.6 percent and 39.4 percent of voters being undecided.
The most recent poll does indicate that a significant mass of voters remain undecided – 44.6 percent – showing that despite Gunter’s overwhelming lead, the race is far from a done deal. The second place finisher in the poll, Marty O’Donnell, has a record of anti-Trump vitriol that he is attempting to hide from 3rd Congressional District voters.
“If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s Donald Trump,” O’Donnell wrote in an X post. In another post, O’Donnell wrote: “Donald Trump is an idiot. Period.”
“Remember the horse in Animal Farm? The horses are voting for Trump,” O’Donnell wrote, alluding to President Trump’s supporters as being suckers.
In another post, O’Donnell made it clear that he is a staunch establishment Republican, outlining his anti-America First political leanings. He wrote, “For the record: Love William F. Buckley and Milton Friedman. Love Ronald Reagan. Love Condi Rice and Thomas Sowell. Loath Trump and absolutely abhor the Clintons. Tolerate Ron and Rand Paul. Almost impossible to vote in any recent elections.”
Now touting his professional experience as a “veteran video game music composer,” O’Donnell bills himself as a fighter against “special interests and big corporations” who are “rigging the system against working people and making it too difficult for families to make ends meet.” Conspicuously absent from O’Donnell’s campaign website are references to President Trump, with only one brief mention of Trump buried in a blurb about the candidate’s vague support for border security. It does not appear as if O’Donnell’s political leanings have changed much in the years since he made his vehemently anti-Trump posts.
The most recent poll also demonstrated that with knowledge of second-place finisher Marty O’Donnell’s record, a stunning 74.3 percent of respondents would reject O’Donnell and stand firmly with Gunter.
In stark contrast to O’Donnell’s record, Ambassador Gunter has proclaimed himself as “110% Pro-Trump,” and there is no ambiguity about where his loyalties lie. The Nevada 3rd Congressional District Republican primary vote is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, June 9, 2026.
