WASHINGTON, DC- Two Democrats seeking seats in Nebraska's Legislature will be exposed to a national audience of potential donors after a Democratic Party committee designated them 2024 "spotlight" candidates, party officials said.

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee — the party committee focused on electing Democrats to statehouses across the country — tabbed Mary Ann Folchert and Victor Rountree as the party's candidates who "represent two of the best opportunities to check the MAGA agenda in" Nebraska's formally nonpartisan Legislature.

Folchert, a former Westside Community Schools teacher, is seeking to unseat Sen. Kathleen Kauth of Omaha, a Republican who has emerged as among the Legislature's most controversial figures in her two years representing the Millard area. Kauth won the primary election 59.13% to Folcherts 40.87%.

Rountree, a retired Air Force chief master sergeant, is vying with Ben "Felix" Ungerman, a retired Air Force colonel and chief of staff in the Nebraska office of U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, for the Legislative District 3 seat set to be vacated by term-limited Sen. Carol Blood, a Democrat who once served on Bellevue's City Council. Ungerman beat Rountree 53.06%-46.94% in the primary election.

The designation does not come with a specific campaign finance windfall but ensures the DLCC will fundraise on behalf of the candidates.