And in Nevada, Marty O’Donnell, a Trump-endorsed Republican running against Representative Susie Lee, a Democrat, often highlights Ms. Lee’s stock trades, claiming that she “has used her office to enrich herself with information the rest of us don’t have.” He has pledged that “unlike Susie, I will not trade stocks while representing Nevada in Congress.”
Ms. Lee, who was married to the chief executive of Full House Resorts, which operates casino facilities, has sold up to $2.8 million worth of stock since her divorce in 2024.
A spokeswoman for Ms. Lee said that all trades made before her divorce were executed by a money manager or her ex-husband. Since the divorce, Ms. Lee “received stocks as part of her divorce settlement and committed to divesting from them, which involves the selling of individual stocks in order to invest in other allowable instruments, like E.T.F.s and mutual funds,” the spokeswoman said, referring to exchange-traded funds.
In one instance where a former lawmaker is running for her old seat, an incumbent is trying to use the attack that is typically employed by a challenger.
Representative Jen Kiggans, Republican of Virginia, frequently accuses her opponent, former Representative Elaine Luria, of “insider stock trading” during her four years in Congress. Ms. Kiggans’s campaign did not point to any instances of insider trading, which is illegal, when asked about the allegations.