Candidates jostle to represent the second congressional district, and a Republican’s Senate seat looks ripe to flip
Nebraska Democrats are bullish about Republican losses in the right-leaning Plains state – but their prospects depend on today’s Democratic primaries, which include accusations of planted candidates and inadvertently depriving Democrats of power.
A crowded Democratic primary in the state’s second congressional district, referred to as its “blue dot”, has focused around concerns that if a state senator wins, the Republican governor will replace him with a Republican who would help overturn Nebraska’s divided electoral college vote system.
Continue reading...This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Rachel Leingang.
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