Why Nevada Republican Mark Amodei Refuses to Vote for His GOP Replacement: Republican Rep. Mark Amodei says he’s voted Republican in every election since he was 18. Until now.
Amodei, who is retiring next month, represents Nevada’s second congressional district. David Flippo is the Trump-backed Republican nominee to replace him.
But with questions swirling about Flippo’s campaign finances and allegations that Flippo and his campaign misrepresented his military record, Amodei says he didn’t vote for Flippo, the first time in his life he didn’t vote Republican.
He invited reporter Noah Lanard and producer Sam Van Pykeren to his Nevada home this week, days ahead of the midterm elections, to explain why.
Mark Amodei wants nothing to do with his Republican replacement.Video by Sam Van Pykeren
“I don’t want to sit here after the fact and go, ‘well, I was a loyal troop,'” Amodei said of not voting for a nominee from his own party. “You know who will care about that after the fact? Nobody.” Instead, Amodei said, he voted for Lynn Chapman, an independent candidate.
Nevada’s second congressional district has only had four representatives since its creation in the ’80s—and they’ve all been Republicans. But that could change next week. As Noah previously reported:
Flippo is locked in an unusually competitive race against Democrat Teresa Benitez-Thompson in a sprawling district encompassing Reno. Flippo’s hard-right candidacy and status as a recent transplant to Reno have divided Nevada Republicans. Mark Amodei, who is retiring from the seat Flippo hopes to win, called him a “fraud” in an article about the Bronze Star claims and refused to back him in both the primary and general election. Due to his vulnerabilities, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee recently added this deep red district to its “Red to Blue” program, identifying it as a possible flip opportunity.
In light of a laundry list of controversies Flippo faces, Amodei has repeatedly called the retired Air Force officer and licensed financial adviser a… https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/nevada-mark-amodei-david-flippo-video/ #MarkAmodei #NevadaPolitics