Nevada’s House incumbents face money threat from self-funders — with one exception
Nevada’s congressional races are quickly becoming contests between incumbents and wealthy challengers bankrolling their own campaigns, with one exception, new campaign finance filings reveal.
According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports covering the last three months of 2025, Nevada’s House incumbents, particularly the three Democrats in battleground races, have significant war chests. They’re funded by party bigwigs, some presidential hopefuls, mining and tech executives, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
“The incumbents are raising money in response to the quality of their likely challengers, district contours, and prior close calls,” UNLV political science professor David Damore said in an email to The Nevada Independent upon reviewing the data.
Here’s a deeper look at the financial state of play:
NV-02: Mark Amodei
Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) also boasts the heftiest war chest he’s ever had at $555,000. The congressman’s donors include Tim Crowley and Jonathan Evans, executives at Lithium Americas, which is developing a key mine in his district. Like Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), he opposed this fall’s government shutdown from the start and received money from the U.S. Travel Association.
He’s unlikely to need it all; he’s in the state’s safest seat, and though he’s attracted many challengers, they’ve mostly raised small amounts.
“Institutionally speaking, given his role on Appropriations and as a member of the majority party, he is best positioned to leverage his committee assignment to bolster his fundraising,” Damore wrote. “It will be interesting to watch if he steps it up if the GOP House leadership presses its senior members to transfer money to support more vulnerable incumbents.”
Amodei’s biggest threat is likely to be venture capitalist Greg Kidd (D), who officially jumped back into the race during the last quarter of 2025. Kidd challenged Amodei as an independent last cycle, driving the congressman to spend money on ads for the first time in years.
So far, Kidd’s 2026 campaign is almost entirely self-funded; he has loaned himself $375,000 ahead of the midterms.