ICYMI: Highlights from This Week’s Nebraska U.S. Senate Primary Election Coverage
Grocer Jane Raybould to face Washington Insider Senator Fischer
Lincoln, Neb.—Jane Raybould, a grocer who helps run her family’s 19 grocery stores, secured Nebraska’s democratic nomination for the United States Senate this week and will face incumbent Deb Fischer in November. Here’s some of the latest buzz from this primary week:
WATCH: Nebraska makes election history (10-11 News, Lincoln, Neb.)
“It’s going to be an interesting race,” Political science professor Kevin Smith with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said. “I think Jane Raybould is probably going to be the most competitive democratic candidate running for state-wide office that we’ve seen in some time.”
VISIT: Senator.ForSale
This week the Raybould for US Senate Campaign launched Senator.ForSale, an information hub illustrating how special interests and corporate political action committees (PACs) are propping up Deb Fischer’s re-election campaign while they buy her votes on the senate floor and she gets rich in Washington.
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Nebraska Democrats believe their likely nominee Jane Raybould could make the race competitive, or at the very least cause Republicans to invest resources here that should be used for other races during the summer and fall — a bad sign for the party trying to keep the majority.
READ: Raybould says she sees more enthusiasm for election process (Grand Island Independent)
[Raybould] also noted that many voters have approached her to say they’ve changed party affiliation, mostly from Republican to nonpartisan, because they don’t think the party represents their interests anymore and they’re sick of the fighting on Capitol Hill…Raybould said her background as a grocer and a business owner, as the vice president and director of buildings and equipment for B & R Stores, her family’s grocery business, gives her a different perspective — one that would be unique in the Senate as there are no senators with grocery backgrounds.
READ: Sen. Deb Fischer will face Jane Raybould in general election; both have ties to agriculture (Omaha World Herald)
The race for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Deb Fischer will feature two candidates with ties to agriculture and agribusiness, Fischer and Democrat Jane Raybould….Raybould, in an interview Tuesday night, said Nebraskans “are ready for an independent-minded leader.” They want someone who will listen to their concerns about the future of health care, Social Security and Medicare, she said.
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A grocery store owner and faithful Catholic, Jane Raybould knows what it means to serve her community — to put community before self. She is running for the United States Senate to cut through the partisan bickering and get things done for Nebraskans, like her customers. Jane boldly announced she would refuse donations from corporate PACs because she knows the special interests hold too much sway in Washington. Her opponent, incumbent Senator Deb Fischer has enriched herself in office and voted with her party 98% of the time — even when those policies are harmful to Nebraskans.