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Nebraska Republican Sen. Deb Fischer faces her strongest challenge yet in independent Dan Osborn

Nov. 05, 2024 00:08 AM EST

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer faces her strongest reelection challenge yet Tuesday as she takes on a former labor union boss who eschewed both major political parties to run as an independent while painting himself as a working class champion. Recent polling...

This independent candidate is worrying Republicans in deep-red Nebraska's Senate race

Oct. 26, 2024 14:07 PM EDT

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — In the back room of a brewery in southeastern Nebraska, more than three dozen people crowded together this summer to hear from Dan Osborn, a former cereal plant worker and independent running for U.S. Senate. The standing-room-only crowd in the small town of...

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Nebraska on Election Day

Oct. 22, 2024 07:13 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nebraska votes solidly Republican in statewide elections, but will nonetheless be closely watched in the presidential race on Election Day. The reason? It's one of two states — Maine is the other — that doesn’t award all of its Electoral College votes to the winner of the...

Women lawmakers take the lead in shaping policy in Nebraska. Advocates hope other states follow.

Sep. 05, 2024 20:59 PM EDT

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — When Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen called a recent special legislative session to address soaring property taxes, it was women who largely stepped up to both advance parts of his main bill and to block his unpopular plans to raise sales and excises taxes to pay for it. ...