Team Ricketts(NE-R), Republicans won't let Dan Osborn fly under radar this time

A Dan Osborn flyer in a bar in downtown Lincoln on July 24. 2025. (Juan Salinas II/Nebraska Examiner)

I'm going to Dan's kick off this afternoon. The location has changed to allow for a larger crowd.

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Osborn’s second U.S. Senate bid is banking on ‘old school politics’ to fight U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts’ push to ‘expose’ labor leader

By: Juan Salinas II - July 26, 2025 5:15 am

LINCOLN — On the same July day that registered nonpartisan labor leader Dan Osborn announced his bid against Republican U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts in the 2026 midterms, the National Republican Senatorial Committee released a digital ad saying a social media account with ties to Osborn had liked gay porn.

And Osborn, known for leading the pandemic-era strike for Kellogg’s workers in Omaha, argued that his working-class background makes him ideal to stand up to Ricketts and the billionaire class now running the country, alluding to the wealth of a family that created the company that became TD Ameritrade and owns Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs.

The tone of the NRSC ad and the Osborn rollout offer a stark contrast to the 2024 race between U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., and Osborn — and could signal the type of race to come between the industrial mechanic and a former two-term governor with Nebraska’s dominant political operation behind him.

Osborn’s bid against a senator with access to personal, political and Senate-incumbent money to campaign comes in an election year when Republicans, like most of the time when a party is in power, could lose seats and control of Congress. And it hits when some voters are losing faith in institutions and seeking alternatives.

FULL story: https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/07/26/team-ricketts-republicans-wont-let-dan-osborn-fly-under-radar-this-time-around/