Nebraska Sen. Ricketts to Face Off Against Democrat-Supported Independent in November

Democratic Party leadership was not going to put up a general election candidate in order to build support around Independent candidate Dan Osborn.

(Left) Then-Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts in the Nebraska state Capitol in Lincoln, Neb., on June 24, 2021. (Right) Dan Osborn, independent candidate. Petr Svab/The Epoch Times, Ramseywill/CC-BY-4.0

Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts has prevailed against four Republican challengers in the primary race for his Senate seat in the Nov. 3 general election. He is set to face the Democratic nominee Cindy Burbank, who won her Democratic primary on May 12.

Ricketts won the GOP nomination by a wide margin, besting the next highest vote getter, Todd Knobel, by over 70 percent of primary votes.