Posted on 04/18/2021 7:26:25 PM PDT by cotton1706
Earlier this month, the Omaha World-Herald reported that former Gov. Dave Heineman was considering running, a development confirmed by sources who have spoken with him.
Heineman is not without Trump credentials. He was an honorary chair of Trump’s reelection campaign in Nebraska and sat on the board of directors of one of Herbster’s companies. And other contenders are already incorporating Trump into their early overtures to the electorate. In an introductory video for his campaign, Jim Pillen, a University of Nebraska regent and top tier primary contender, promised to “defend President Trump’s progress on growing our economy and fighting hard for the forgotten men and women Washington long left behind.”
But it will be hard for anyone to out-Trump Herbster, who served as the former president’s top agricultural adviser in 2016 and chaired the Farmers and Ranchers for Trump committee in 2020. He gave more than $1.1 million to pro-Trump groups during the 2020 campaign and attended the rally at the Capitol on Jan. 6. He said he left Washington before the ensuing riot.
Nebraska relishes a degree of independence from traditional Republican orthodoxy. Its legislature is nonpartisan and unicameral, and voters in Bacon’s district gave an electoral vote to Joe Biden last year — something that has happened for a Democrat in Nebraska only twice over the past half-century.
For Republicans in Nebraska, said former Rep. Brad Ashford, the Democrat who lost his seat to Bacon in 2016, “I don’t think you have to be Trump all the time … Nebraska Republicans are much more moderate than the party.”
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