Republican Don Bacon has been elected to a fifth House term representing Nebraska’s Omaha-based 2nd District, nearly three days after the polls closed.
A top Democratic dark money group poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into an unsuccessful effort to oust Sen. Deb Fischer (D-NE), records show.
The two states each award two electoral votes to the winner of the statewide vote, as well as one electoral vote to the popular vote winner in each congressional district. Nebraska has three congressional districts and five total electoral votes, while Maine has two congressional districts and four total electoral votes.
Nebraska will have a record number of petition-initiated measures on the ballot Tuesday, including two competing ones that address abortion rights.
Voters in Nebraska will be voting on Initiative 436 which would require employers to provide paid sick leave to employees.
Senator Deb Fischer, the two-term Republican from Nebraska, survived a dark horse challenge from Dan Osborn, a mechanic and labor leader who ran as an independent.
Vice President Kamala Harris clinched Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, earning an electoral vote from the red state.
In Nebraska's general elections, Harris took the state's 2nd Congressional District while Fischer retained her seat in a challenge against Osborn.
Reliably conservative Nebraska had been in the spotlight because it splits its five electoral votes. The state’s Second Congressional District voted Democratic.
Nebraskans passed medical marijuana legalization, solidified the state’s 12-week abortion ban in the constitution, implemented paid sick leave for workers, and repealed a voucher program for private schools on Election Day.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Republican Deb Fischer won reelection Tuesday to a third term in the U.S. Senate, besting challenger Dan Osborn, a former labor union boss and military veteran who gained traction during the race by rejecting both major parties to run as an independent.
A competing ballot amendment, which would have established a right to abortion until fetal viability, failed to win more votes.