Omaha, Note (AP) -A former head of the trade union company who recorded national headlines by the US Senator in Nebraska last year, this time again throws his hat in the political ring -to challenge Nebraskas Junior Senator, the Republican Pete Rickett, in 2026.
“I can do it for the Senate because the congress should not only be a playground for the rich,” said Dan Osborn in a video published on Tuesday to announce its candidacy. He criticized Ricketts, a former governor of Nebraska in Nebraska and Multimillionär, who is the son of the billionaire TD Ameritrade founder Joe Rickett, as legislator who “bought his seat in the Senate”.
Rickett’s campaign reacted with its coordination record “to secure the border and to reduce taxes for workers in Nebraska” and to make Osborn committed as the Democrat.
“Dan Osborn is donated by his liberal, outside the state of Coastal,” said the spokesman for the Ricketts campaign in a written statement.
This was an indication of the almost 20 million US dollars that Osborn received from political action committees last year, including those who support democratic candidates.
As he existed last year, Osborn said that he would serve as independent if he was chosen and have no plans for Caucus with Democrats or Republicans. On Ricketts’ votes for the massive tax reduction and the expenditure calculation of the Republicans last week, which contains tax reductions of 4.5 trillion dollars and settles medical and food brands by $ 1.2 trillion.
“The congress spends their time to argue how much we should reduce taxes for billionaires and multinational companies. We are only a subsequent thought,” said Osborn. “My children and yours also earn an American dream.”
It is a familiar chorus of Osborn, who last year centered his campaign on the representation of working families, which he is subdued by a constantly growing wealth gap and guidelines that prefer the opulent compared to the middle class.
Osborn was known in union circles as the Omaha Industrial Mechanic, who successfully led a work strike in Kellogg’s grain plants in 2021 and won higher wages and other advantages. He was a political newcomer when he challenged Fischer, exceeded it by more than $ 1 million and received within 6 percentage points of the two-term senator who was used to winning with broad margins.
Osborn admitted that it would be tough to present a threat to campaign financing for Rickett, one of the richest members of the US Senate. According to reports, Rickett’s’ campaign at the end of March has more than 800,000 US dollars in cash.
But Osborn believes that his populist message appeals to Nebraska voters more than the campaign war.
“I think if you throw $ 100 million of your own money into Nebraska, I don’t know that the needle moves more than $ 30,” he said. “I think we will get this to old school: go to the place where people are. Just keep the town hall for the town hall and talk to the good people in Nebraska.”
Rickett’s will look for a special election last year after a re -election after winning last year to end the term of office of the former Senator Ben Sasse, who resigned in 2022. Ricketts, the republican governor of Republicans, Jim Slen, to fill out the vacancy, to the successor, with a move, with a million that was with a million in the Billroom navigation company, with a auxiliary room with a time, as a More -Helm. was, ended.
