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CNN Asks Senate Candidate Dan Osborn to Confirm This Is His Voice Insulting Nebraska Republicans

Doug P.
Doug P.  |  2:29 PM on September 16, 2026

According to Ballotpedia, the race for U.S. Senate in Nebraska now boils down to three candidates:

Incumbent Sen. Pete Ricketts (R), Mike Marvin (Legal Marijuana Now Party), and Dan Osborn (Nonpartisan) are running in the general election for the U.S. Senate in Nebraska. Ricketts and Osborn lead in polling, noteworthy endorsements, fundraising, and media attention. 

Cindy Burbank (D), who won the Democratic primary for the seat, filed paperwork to withdraw from the general election on July 17, 2026. On her withdrawal, Burbank said, “I’ve looked at the numbers. I won’t be your next senator. So I have withdrawn my bid for U.S. Senate.”

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Ricketts and Osborn are the top two contenders.

As for Osborn, he calls himself an independent or nonpartisan but his campaign isn't fooling anybody because he will totally align with the Democrats. Here's just one example:

In the 2024 election in Nebraska, Donald Trump received nearly 60 percent of the statewide vote, which makes these comments that have surfaced from Osborn a bit of a problem for his campaign: 

Nebraska U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn, after weeks of leaked recordings, now faces what his critics call a potential "deplorables" moment after a fresh recording surfaced of him talking about what motivates some supporters of President Donald Trump.

The recording, obtained by The World-Herald and verified separately with a person who participated in the recorded conversation, is from a campaign-related event early this summer, the participant confirmed.

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In the audio, Osborn can be heard saying why he thinks some Trump supporters back the president so passionately despite difficult economic conditions. Osborn described the nature of Trump's support as a tribe or a team.

"Billy Bob in f------ Red Cloud, Nebraska, who lives next to the f------ Trump store as you pull into town and is waving the flag, all he knows is that he's on the winning team," Osborn said. "It's really that simple. And Trump ... that's why he's been so effective. 

"He's been so effective at taking Billy Bob and his wife Mary Jane or Mary Jo and telling them ... you're on the winning team. And that's all they care about, because their lives probably suck so f------ bad."

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You might have thought the candidate from the "Legal Marijuana Now Party" would have been the one to talk about Mary Jane, but nope, it's the fake "independent" and his "basket of deplorables"-style condescension in regard to Trump voters and Republicans in general.

CNN's Dana Bash had Osborn on and asked him to confirm that's his voice on the recording: 

Osborn looked like he wanted to go full Colonel Jessup with that answer. 

Sure, dude, tell us what you really think about the voters in your state and don't apologize. 

That's why his campaign pushing the "independent" angle is laughable. 

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Osborn is far left and will vote with the Democrats. Nebraska voters need to keep him out of the Senate. 

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