OMAHA- Republican primary voters in Nebraska brushed aside months of populist pushback against elected officials and advanced both incumbent U.S. senators to the general election. As expected, two-term U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer, outpaced perennial candidate Arron Kowalski, a central Nebraska farmer, in the GOP primary. Fischer finished by securing 79.8% of the vote.

She said she looked forward to her race this fall. Her likely opponent, Dan Osborn, a nonpartisan former Omaha union leader, has said he collected enough signatures to get his nonpartisan bid on the ballot. His campaign plans to turn in signatures this summer. Sen. Pete Ricketts won the GOP nod to finish the last two years of former Sen. Ben Sasse’s term. Gov. Jim Pillen appointed Ricketts to the Senate in early 2023, after Sasse vacated the seat to become president of the University of Florida.

Ricketts secured 79.1% of the vote. “I think what this shows is our incumbents in the federal delegation are doing a great job representing Nebraskans,” Ricketts said. “And that Nebraskans are rewarding by sending them to D.C.” Ricketts next faces Democrat Preston Love Jr., a civil rights and neighborhood advocate who served as manager of Jesse Jackson’s barrier-breaking presidential campaign in 1984.

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