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**** October 25, 2024
In Search of the Trump-Osborn Voters
BY AUSTIN AHLMAN
Four and eight years ago, there was a major Republican get-out-the-vote effort. This time is different.
NORFOLK, NEBRASKA - What should have been a sleepy Nebraska Senate race could now upend national politics. Two-term incumbent Deb Fischer has been caught flat-footed by populist independent and former union leader Dan Osborn, who is giving her the fight of her life in a state Donald Trump carried by nearly 20 points in 2020.
More than just control of the Senate-which professional handicappers rate as strongly tilting toward Republicans [link removed] at stake. If he wins, Osborn's unapologetic anti-corporate message would throw a wrench into the business-friendly approach of both parties. Republican incumbents in safe seats could be threatened by a formidable new type of opponent. It also risks embarrassing national Democrats if a firebrand steamfitter from Omaha is able to accomplish in the heartland what many middle-of-the-road Democratic standard-bearers could not.
As Osborn put it at a recent meet-and-greet in Ashland, "Imagine the ramifications on American politics if Nebraska sends an independent mechanic to the halls of power ... Nurses, teachers, plumbers, bus drivers-they can all know they can do the same thing."
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