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The Nebraska Senate race is a hot topic with just a few weeks until the election, as independent candidates with controversial endorsements are vying to unseat Sen. Debbie Fischer (R-Nebraska). It is emerging as an election campaign.
Mechanic and union leader Dan Osborne, who is running as an independent against Fisher, has urged two prominent political handicappers to reassess the race, threatening to intensify the competition. Showing.
Cook Political Report and Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics recently shifted the race from “solid” or “safe” Republicans to “likely Republican” parties. The race is currently tied with the race of Sen. Rick Scott (R-Florida) in each rating system. Sabato’s Crystal Ball also ranks the Nebraska Senate race in the same category as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), but Cook ranks the Texas matchup in a more competitive ranking. Changed to
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The outside groups spending millions on the goodwill of Dan Osborne (right) derive much of their funding from underground finance groups linked to George Soros and other major Democratic donors. (Reuters/AP)
Mr. Osborne is supported by two outside PACs called Retired Career Politicians and Nebraska Railroad Workers for Public Safety. The former has spent $3,004,274 on Osbourne, while the latter has donated more than $400,000 to support Osbourne’s candidacy and has also specifically donated more than $20,000 to Fisher, according to Open Secrets. .
Both PACs have recently come under intense scrutiny as controversial financial backers. Reid Hoffman, a Democratic megadonor, supporter of Vice President Kamala Harris, and co-founder of LinkedIn, donated $50,000 to Nebraska Railroad Workers for Public Safety last year.
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Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.) and Sen. Debbie Fischer (R., Nebraska). (Reuters)
A retired career politician received $800,000 from the controversial black-finance group Sixteen Thirty Fund in a matter of months. The group is run by Arabella Advisors, a left-wing political consulting firm in Washington, DC.
The Sixteen Thirty Fund does not disclose the identities of its donors, but the Open Society Foundations, a group of billionaire George Soros, has donated between 2016 and 2022, according to the Open Society Foundations website. The foundation has provided more than $75 million in grants since then.
The 16 Thirty Fund also donated $50,000 to Nebraska Railroad Public Safety.
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Democratic donor George Soros has long used his organization to fund groups that support Democratic causes and candidates. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
Mike Helming, co-founder and treasurer of the Nebraska Railroad Public Safety Association, told FOX News Digital that they “reached out to anyone and everyone to get involved on rail safety issues and independent politics. “And what we found is that a lot of people are working on rail safety issues.” The progressives and the Democratic side wanted to be on board, and what we found was that the Republicans actually circled the wagons around Deb, and all of the money and commitment went to him. ”
He pointed out that without a Democratic candidate in the race, “many consultants and companies that lean toward the Democratic Party will not have a commitment.”
“We made a real effort to bring everyone together and get a cross-section and really build the organization going forward. You know, we’re not just doing this once and for all, we’re building for the future. “We want to get this, be successful, win, get Dan elected, and then continue to move forward as an independent and on rail safety,” he explained.
“Nebraskans are going to be really, really interested in learning more about the dark money that is embezzling millions of dollars for themselves,” Fischer told FOX News Digital.
“Democratic dark finance groups are spending millions of dollars to support Bernie Sanders follower Dan Osborne because he is a true radical. Social Security benefits for undocumented immigrants are now available in Nebraska. It’s not about values,” Mike Berg, director of communications for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), said in a statement.
Notably, one of Osborne’s ads compares Fisher, soliciting campaign contributions from lobbyists and special interests, to a race car driver with a patch on his jacket. “The only thing on the back of my jacket is Nebraska,” he said on the spot.
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This independent candidate has made non-partisanship a central part of his campaign. But that situation was shattered by reports from two news outlets that Osborne was once a Democrat and did not consider himself an independent until 2016.
“I became an independent in 2016, actually after the Trump-Hillary debate. It felt fake,” he previously told Semaphore.
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But his campaign disputed this, saying he was misquoted. “We were talking about how Labor is traditionally a Democrat,” Osborne told local media.
The retired career politician and Osbourne’s campaign did not comment to Fox News Digital in time for publication.
