David Flippo is one of the candidates in Nevada’s 2026 congressional races, where voters will choose who represents them in the U.S. House across all four congressional districts. The contests include incumbents and challengers with varied backgrounds, giving voters a direct say in every House seat tied to Nevada.
In District 1, Titus is the incumbent and has held the seat since 2013. Buck, a state senator from District 5 and a former Nevada Assembly member, is challenging there after a career in education that included leadership roles at Pinecrest Academy of Nevada and Pinecrest Foundation.
Titus and Buck in District 1
Titus’s record stretches back to the Nevada Senate, where she served from 1993 to 2009 and was State Senate Minority Leader. She now serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and she is ranking member of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
Buck’s background reaches from classrooms to public office. His education work included serving as executive director and lead principal of Pinecrest Academy of Nevada, president of the Pinecrest Foundation, and an adjunct faculty member at several colleges.
Lee, O'Donnell and Kamarath
Lee has represented District 3 since 2019 and sits on the House Appropriations Committee. Lee is also a member of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus and New Democrats Coalition, while O'Donnell enters the race with an endorsement from President Trump.
O'Donnell was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, earned a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College in 1977 and a graduate degree from the University of Southern California in 1981. His career includes work as a musician, composer and audio director, along with affiliations with ASCAP, SAG/AFTRA and AFM.
Kamarath graduated from the Practical Nursing program of the Community College of Southern Nevada in 2004 and has lived in Clark County for 22 years. That mix of local roots and work history places the race among the few in which a candidate’s training is tied directly to a Nevada school and a long county residence.
Horsford and Whipple
Horsford is seeking reelection after serving in the Nevada Senate from 2004 to 2012, becoming the state's first Black Senate majority leader, first winning Congress in 2012 and returning to the House in 2019. He said his priorities include lowering costs for workers and families, restoring cuts to health care and nutrition programs, setting limits on ICE and expanding access to housing.
His campaign also cites the bipartisan Road to Housing Act as one effort to address corporate practices he says have driven up housing costs. That sits beside Whipple’s own housing pitch: a tax-free, interest-bearing savings account to help first-time homebuyers build a down payment.
Whipple is a fourth-generation Nevadan who grew up in Hiko, earned an animal science degree from Virginia Tech and owns a small business that provides communications networks and equipment. He manages his family’s cattle ranch, says he built a successful small business from the ground up for the past 25 years, and says he wants to unify the district while keeping his campaign focused on local concerns.
The race now turns on which of these candidates can translate background into votes in each district. Nevada voters will settle that across all four congressional districts when they choose their U.S. House representation.
