BELLEVUE- Incumbent House Republicans had a big day in Nebraska’s primary election after hearing months of complaints from GOP partisans saying they wanted change. Republican U.S. Reps. Mike Flood and Adrian Smith both cruised to victory over lesser-funded, lesser-known GOP opponents. Flood secured 81.58% of the vote. Smith secured 74.18% of the vote.

Flood faces Democratic State Sen. Carol Blood of Bellevue in the 1st District general election. Blood lost a bid for governor in 2022 against Jim Pillen, then a University of Nebraska regent. Flood, of Norfolk, embraced voter concerns about immigration enforcement that Democrats and others say are a long way from his less partisan past, when he served as Speaker of the Legislature.

Smith defeated Hastings discount store owner John Walz, 74%-19%. Walz’s bid embraced former President Donald Trump’s “MAGA approach” and was endorsed by the Nebraska Republican Party. Smith, running for a tenth term, did what he has done in each of his more recent races for re-election, by pointing to his record of working to lower taxes and cut regulations.

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