All eyes are on Omaha, Nebraska’s ‘Blue Dot’ and its sole electoral vote
Newly minted Donald Trump substitute, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And Tulsi Gabbardwill be at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday in the duo’s latest stop in the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Just a short 25-minute drive away, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz will also vie for Omahans’ votes, holding a rally at the SumTur Amphitheater in Papillion.
With just over two weeks until Election Day, two factions are fighting for a small and politically unique slice of the Cornhusker State’s eastern border. Nebraska is one of two states, the other being Maine, that does not implement a winner-take-all system with their electoral college votes. The area around Omaha, the state’s second congressional district, holds an electoral vote—and this one, according to a Analysis by NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve KornackiThat one vote could decide the race.
“This is especially important for democrats,” Kornaki began, “to have an electoral map scenario for Kamala Harris it all depends on locking it down.” That scenario looks like this: Harris carries Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania; Trump won North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada; Omaha, in this hypothetical, could get Harris to 270.
Since 1992, when Nebraska switched its election process to its current one, the district has turns blue twice—once in 2008 for Barack Obama and again for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. To show their support for the Harris-Walz ticket, Omaha locals hung campaign signs in their yards feature a single green dot.
In September, Republicans across the country, along with Trump himselfattempted to interfere with Nebraska’s electoral college system, made a final ditch and ultimately failed lobbying campaign to overturn the decades-old rule and combine all the counties in the state. According to the report, Harris’ campaign spent exponentially more than Trump in Nebraska, spending $5 million on advertising in the state, compared to Trump’s $200,000. report from NPR based on data from ad tracking company AdImpact.
However, the Trump campaign’s choice to send RFK Jr. and Gabbard to Omaha show the ongoing effort to turn the entire state red.
Kennedy—who was is introduced called Trump a “terrible president” and a “bully”—and Gabbard—the person selected to criticisms like “corruption” and “unfitness to serve” in 2020—both of which played prominent roles in the effort to elect the former president. From end his own office bidding in August, he endorsed Trump. Even though Kennedy—whose first campaign included accusations of sexual assault reported via Vanity fair—has paused his more forward-looking campaign for later The news broke that thing he is said to have had not suitable relationship with New York Washington magazine, DC, reporter Olivia Nuzzi.
