OMAHA- Former Tea Party member Dan Frei filed last week to challenge U.S. Rep. Don Bacon in the 2024 GOP primary in the state's 2nd Congressional District. Frei has no immediate comment upon filing the challenge, but Frei had previously expressed interest in ousting Bacon from the seat.

Some leaders in the Nebraska GOP have stated that they prefer candidates who express more loyalty to former President Donald Trump than Bacon does. Although Bacon backed Trump in 2016 and 2020, he has since stated that he will not support the former president in 2024. Frei previously lost a narrow GOP primary bid in 2014 against then-Rep. Lee Terry.

Frei said that he was frustrated by a lack of progress by Congress on national debt, border enforcement, and the repeated use of short-term funding measures. He described himself as a fiscal and social conservative. Rep. Adrian Smith, who represents the state's 3rd District, also picked up a contender last week after John Walz of Hastings, an engineer who has worked in the biofuels industry, filed to run.

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