‘Revenge of the normies’: Halo veteran-turned-candidate pitches outsider revolt in Nevada swing district

Marty O'Donnell spent decades creating immoderate of nan astir iconic euphony successful video crippled history. Now, nan Halo composer is devoting his imaginative energies to an wholly different type of project: a blimpish upset successful 1 of America's astir competitory plaything districts.

Speaking pinch Fox News Digital astatine Freedom Fest successful Las Vegas, nan Nevada Republican campaigner explained really he plans to bring his real-world business acquisition and invention to a Washington perennially clogged pinch profession politicians.

GAMING-WORLD VETERAN WHO RIPPED ‘WOKE’ CULTURE SCORES TRUMP-BACKED BATTLEGROUND PRIMARY WIN

Composer Marty O'Donnell, known for his activity connected nan original Halo games, is shown alongside artwork for Halo: Campaign Evolved. (Playstation )

"How did being a composer hole maine to tally for Congress? Well, frankly, I don't deliberation it does. But I don't deliberation thing prepares anybody to tally for Congress. What I'm tired of…people who person their full profession successful politics. They person ne'er made anything, they don't really cognize anything, and we don't request much group for illustration that. 

"I've had an full profession creating stuff, shipping stuff, moving pinch different teams, starring teams, making businesses, making deals. That's what I deliberation prepares maine for Congress."

O'Donnell puts basal kitchen-table economics astatine nan instauration of his outsider bid for Nevada's 3rd district:

"I really judge that it's clip to get backmost to a spot wherever 1 bully occupation is enough…enough to raise a family, bargain a home, get your kids a bully education, return a vacation. That is nan measurement I grew up. That's nan America I grew up in. And there's nary logic why that shouldn't beryllium capable to travel back."

He has a fighting shot, but successful a territory agelong represented by 4-term Democrat Susie Lee, he needs to hone his entreaty to governmental independents:

Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nev., arrives to nan U.S. Capitol earlier nan House passed nan fund solution connected Thursday, April 10, 2025.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"The independent portion of Nevada, and particularly nan territory I'm in, CD3, is huge. 

"The near has gone truthful acold near that nan only point that we request to beryllium capable to coming to nan group who are successful nan mediate is that we judge successful communal consciousness solutions. We judge successful communal sense. Not nonsense.

‘HALO’ VIDEO GAME MUSIC COMPOSER AIMS TO REARRANGE WASHINGTON

"You know, transing your kids, boys successful girls' sports, having unfastened borders, nan ever-growing national authorities and fraud, that each has to extremity and I deliberation group are fresh for that, and I deliberation nan independents are fresh for that."

With a business inheritance and a communal consciousness approach, O'Donnell argues that his mainstream entreaty will transportation him done successful nan Las Vegas suburbs.

"Well Las Vegas is simply a municipality that has grown up being each astir hospitality and casinos and hotels and entertainment, but it's besides becoming a high-tech place. 

Las Vegas besides classed precocious connected nan database of nan astir nosy cities successful America.  (iStock)

"I deliberation nan business organization here, particularly successful nan territory I'm from, which is connected nan northwest broadside of Las Vegas, is fresh to conscionable explode. Summerlin area, location are each sorts of business opportunities there. And it's unsocial because it's a divers community. We person a immense Asian population, Hispanic, group who person retired, group who activity successful hospitality and are portion of unions.

"But these group are, are family group and family group are what I see to beryllium normal group and I deliberation this midterm could beryllium nan revenge of nan normies. I deliberation normal group are going to travel retired and opportunity they've had capable pinch nan crazies."

O'Donnell powerfully supports Donald Trump's overseas argumentation and is not adverse to subject action to topple nan longstanding communist authorities successful Havana:

"I americium perfectly fresh for Cuba to person nan aforesaid destiny that Venezuela had. The group of Cuba person been suppressed almost my full lifetime. It's clip for Cuba to beryllium free again. The group of Cuba merit to beryllium free. Fidel Castro died a agelong clip ago.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations confirmation proceeding astatine Dirksen Senate Office Building connected Jan. 15, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

"There are truthful galore smart, successful group from Cuba, particularly successful Florida, Marco being 1 of them, of course. And it's time. We don't needfully request to do a subject intervention, but if that's what needs to happen, I would beryllium each for it because, I deliberation nan management knows what needs to hap successful Cuba, and I'm looking guardant to a free Cuba complete nan adjacent year."

Finally, O'Donnell pledges to clasp nan statement connected spending and not autumn unfortunate to nan constitution GOP drift to large authorities spending:

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

"My scheme is to return nan ringing of powerfulness and propulsion it into nan fires of Mount Doom. That's a small shout-out to my nerd friends. Listen, nan authorities is excessively big. There was a constituent wherever President Clinton said 'the era of large authorities is over.' Obviously, he didn't mean it, but it appeals to group still to this day.

"There's truthful overmuch fraud, there's truthful overmuch discarded successful large government. How is it not clip for nan authorities to equilibrium its budget, to cut... 10 percent, astatine least, of each programme it has and spell aft each nan fraud and discarded that is conscionable rampant? We cannot proceed to walk for illustration drunken sailors. We can't proceed to summation nan budgets and taxation nan people. It's conscionable unacceptable."