Yesterday I wrote about Dr. Aury Nagy’s campaign launch for Congress.
The Las Vegas neurosurgeon kicked off his 2026 bid to unseat Democratic Rep. Susie Lee with promises to cut healthcare costs and bring conservative principles to Washington. But today, I came across something that changes everything about his candidacy.
Dr. Aury Nagy wants Republican voters to trust him with their congressional seat, but his wallet tells a different story. Campaign finance records show the Las Vegas neurosurgeon has donated well over $100,000 to Democrats over the past 15 years, including money to the very congresswoman he’s now trying to defeat.
And that’s the most damaging detail: Nagy gave at least $2,000 to Rep. Susie Lee’s campaigns over the years, including donations as recently as August 2024. He was literally funding his future opponent just months before launching his Republican campaign against her.
Now he’s asking Nevada Republicans to believe he’s their champion against big government healthcare. That’s going to be a very tough sell in a GOP primary.
Funding His Own Opponent
The ultimate irony in Nagy’s political journey is that he helped bankroll Susie Lee’s rise to power. Records show he donated $500 to “Susie Lee for Nevada” in September 2015, another $500 in March 2016, $500 to “Susie Lee for Congress” in August 2024, and $500 to the “Susie Lee Victory Fund 2024” in August 2024.
Think about that for a minute. Nagy gave Lee $1,000 just three months before announcing his campaign to defeat her. He was writing checks to help the very person he now claims is wrong on healthcare, wrong on government spending, and wrong for Nevada.
How does Nagy explain asking Republican voters to donate to his campaign when he was recently donating to theirs? It’s the kind of political flip-flopping that makes voters cynical about politicians in the first place.
A Decade of Democratic Devotion
The donation records paint a clear picture of someone deeply committed to the Democratic Party. Nagy wasn’t just giving pocket change; he was administering maximum-dose injections of cash to the Democratic Party.
In 2024 alone, Nagy gave Democrats over $25,000. That included $5,000 to the Nevada State Democratic Party, $5,000 to Nevada Senate Victory 2024, $3,300 to Harris for President, and $1,700 to the Democratic National Committee. He also sent multiple donations to Rep. Steven Horsford, a progressive Democrat.
But 2024 wasn’t unusual for Nagy. In 2021, he gave Catherine Cortez Masto’s Senate campaign $10,600. In 2019, he donated $2,801 to Biden for President. In 2016, he sent $2,700 to Hillary Clinton. Going back to 2012, Nagy gave Harry Reid’s campaign and related committees a whopping $30,000 in a single year.
Supporting the Biggest Names in Liberal Politics
Nagy’s donor history reads like a who’s who of Democratic leadership. He gave thousands to Harry Reid, the former Senate Majority Leader who championed Obamacare. He supported Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. He backed Joe Biden. He sent money to Kamala Harris.
These aren’t moderate Democrats. These are the politicians who built the big government healthcare system Nagy now claims to oppose. Reid was instrumental in passing Obamacare. Clinton wanted a government takeover of healthcare in the 1990s. Biden expanded government control over healthcare as president.
Yet Nagy kept writing them checks, sometimes giving the maximum allowed by law. In 2010, he gave $10,000 each to Harry Reid’s victory fund and the Nevada State Democratic Party on the same day. That’s $20,000 to help elect the very politicians pushing for more government control of healthcare.
What This Means for Republican Voters
Interestingly, Nagy did make a few donations to Republicans over the years. In 2012, he gave $1,250 to Dean Heller’s Senate campaign. Earlier, he sent $500 to John Ensign. But these donations are dwarfed by his support for Democrats.
Conservative voters have every right to ask tough questions. If Nagy believed so strongly in limited government and free market healthcare, why was he bankrolling the politicians fighting against those very principles for over a decade?
Democrats like Harry Reid, Susie Lee, and Catherine Cortez Masto have voted for bigger government, higher taxes, and more healthcare regulations. They supported the policies Nagy now says are destroying our healthcare system. Yet he kept writing them maximum contribution checks year after year.
This isn’t about purity tests or demanding perfection from candidates. It’s about basic consistency and credibility.Republican voters need to perform their own diagnostic exam on Nagy’s political health.
What Republican Primary Voters Should Ask
The fact that this information surfaced on day two of his campaign shows either stunning political malpractice or outright hubris from Nagy and whoever advised him to launch without addressing this obvious vulnerability. Any competent political consultant should have known these public records would come to light immediately and prepared an explanation from the start.
If you’re a Republican considering supporting Nagy, here are the questions you should demand answers to:
When did you switch from supporting Democrats to being a Republican? What changed your mind? Why were you giving thousands of dollars to politicians who voted for Obamacare expansions and bigger government? Do you regret those donations now?
Most importantly: How do we know you won’t switch back to supporting Democrats if you get to Congress?
These aren’t unfair questions. They’re the basic due diligence any voter should do before supporting a candidate.
What Happens in the Primary
Nagy will face other Republican candidates in the 2026 primary, and you can bet they’ll bring up these donations. GOP primary voters tend to be more conservative and more skeptical of candidates who’ve supported Democrats.
Nagy will need convincing answers about his political evolution. If he can’t explain why he spent years funding the opposition, Republican voters have plenty of other candidates to choose from.
They should ask the hard questions and wait for convincing answers before handing Nagy their trust and their votes.
As someone who has volunteered in three election cycles trying to flip this seat in CD3, I know how hard Republicans have worked to defeat Susie Lee. We can’t afford to nominate someone whose commitment to conservative principles is questionable.
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