This could turn out very well. Our governor, Pete Ricketts, is out in January due to term limits. If he could appoint himself to this Senate seat, he could serve the first 4 years without running. Praying this is how it happens.
“ …governors have often floated the idea of appointing themselves to the senate, but this hasn’t actually happened since 1977 when Walter Mondale’s (D-MN) elevation to vice president left his Senate seat open and governor Wendell Anderson appointed himself to Mondale’s seat. There’s a good reason it hasn’t happened since then. In 1978 when Anderson went to face voters, they didn’t take kindly to his antics he was crushed by 16 points while dragging down every other statewide elected Democrat too. The loss was so severe that it was soon dubbed the “Minnesota Massacre.” In fact, the last seven governors to try this trick were all defeated in their first election, with two not even making it past their own party’s primary.”
Source: https://www.quora.com/Can-a-Governor-appoint-himself-to-the-US-senate
The appointed Senator will face election in ‘24 for two years, then again for a full term in ‘26.
Was there not a massive grass roots revolt within the GOP party in Nebraska this year which threw out the entire entrenched Rhino party apparatus. I’d thought Gov. Rickets was on the losing side of that. It’s hard to imagine Sasse leaving early without some tie in to that revolt. Since Rickets is to be gone at the end of the year (which I”d forgotten) and likely expected to be replaced by someone more MAGA, mightent this be a move by Sasse, who knows he cannot be re-elected in’26 and doesn’t want to stay unti his end, to substitute a stealthier Rhino —— via Gov Rickets rather than post-Rickets Gov.— and give.them a head start on ‘26. At the same time prepositioning Sasse to snipe at RDS in Fla instead of sniping at Trump. More knowledgeable Freepers from NE need to chime in.