An Independent Senate Candidate Sets off Alarm Bells in Deep-Red Nebraska
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Anyone keyed into the Senate races this campaign cycle knows the battlegrounds: Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Montana, and maybe, just maybe, Texas. But there’s one other state we might soon be adding to that list, at least judging from the panic being expressed by the state’s Republicans: Nebraska.
Everyone expected Nebraska’s incumbent Republican senator, Deb Fischer, to cruise to re-election. But then a challenger emerged, and he’s starting to pick up momentum. Independent labor union leader Dan Osborn has raised a lot of money in recent months, and polls have tightened enough that the Cook Political Report has shifted their forecast for the race from “Solid Republican” to “Likely Republican.”
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