Nebraska Republican Deb Fischer is elected to a third US Senate term

Associated Press

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Republican Deb Fischer has won a third term representing Nebraska in the U.S. Senate. Fischer won her previous two elections by wide margins in the deeply conservative state. But she faced her toughest challenge yet in Dan Osborn, a working-class industrial mechanic and military veteran who appealed to voters by eschewing the major parties and running as an independent. Fischer successfully countered by leaning into her support for former President Donald Trump. Despite their at-times rocky relationship, Trump endorsed Fischer for reelection, which Fischer touted in her campaign ads. In her victory speech, Fischer took issue with money that she said “out-of-state Democrats spent trying to buy a Nebraska Senate seat.”