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Could Republicans lose Nebraska_ Independent Dan Osborn runs again for U.S. Senate seat · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Independent Senate candidate Dan Osborne made national waves in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four with a much closer than expected challenge to
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  Speaker 1: incumbent Republican Senator Deb Fisher in deep red Nebraska. Osborne
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  Speaker 1: delivered the single biggest Senate over performance compared to the
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  Speaker 1: top of the ticket anywhere in the country, outperforming former
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  Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris by roughly fourteen points. Now Osborne
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  Speaker 1: is back for another run. This time he's taking on
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  Speaker 1: Republican Senator Pete Ricketts, betting that growing frustration with the
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  Speaker 1: White House could make Nebraska even more competitive this time around.
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  Speaker 1: So joining us is independent candidate forour Nebraska's US Senate seat,
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  Speaker 1: Dan Osborne. Dan, thank you very much for coming to
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. This frustration with the administration, let me play
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  Speaker 1: something sorry growing frustration. Let me play something that Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Hassett said on Wednesday about credit cards.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about it on the other side.
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  Speaker 3: The consumer is really really firing on all cylinders, just
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  Speaker 3: like the corporate sector you're seeing in the earnings reports.
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  Speaker 3: And they're doing that because they have so much more
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  Speaker 3: money in their pockets. Credit Card spending is through the roof.
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  Speaker 3: They're spending more on gasoline. But they're spending more on
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  Speaker 3: everything else too.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Dan, as you know, Kevin Hassett is the head
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  Speaker 1: of the National Economic Council. Do you do Nebraskan's view,
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  Speaker 1: spending much more than they have, much more than they
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  Speaker 1: have ever spent on credit cards, is a sign of
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  Speaker 1: their economic health.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I suppose that directly relates into it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I was just at the gas pump the other day
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  Speaker 4: and for the first time in a long time, I
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  Speaker 4: had to stop the pump short because I realized my mortgage.
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  Speaker 2: Was coming out.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the way people are living right now. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's definitely a struggle. A bad tearff policy and bad
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  Speaker 4: foreign policy is playing out in real time with a
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  Speaker 4: lot of us.
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  Speaker 2: And it's hurting our pocketbooks.
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  Speaker 4: And I know my opponent, like Pete Ricketts, who's rubber
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  Speaker 4: stamping all of this, I don't think he probably doesn't
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  Speaker 4: even drive his own car, let alone pop his own gas,
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  Speaker 4: so he's definitely disassociated from the majority of our reality.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Osborne, you raised more money than Pete Ricketts in
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  Speaker 5: the Q one. I think the polls have you quite tight.
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  Speaker 5: We have this flat water free press here talking about
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  Speaker 5: your Democrat the Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're running as an independent.
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  Speaker 5: Trump voting Nebraska pastor is running for Senate as a
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  Speaker 5: Democrat Crat.
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  Speaker 2: He insists it's in good faith.
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  Speaker 5: Forbes voted for Trump each time he was on the
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  Speaker 5: ballot and posted a photo of Ricketts speaking at a
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  Speaker 5: right to life rally and Lincoln in a sense deleted
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  Speaker 5: Facebook post. The Democrats will obviously pick a candidate in
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  Speaker 5: their primary. There is a risk, though, that you both
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  Speaker 5: split the anti Rickets vote. When you look at where
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  Speaker 5: the polls are, what voters are saying that there is
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  Speaker 5: a Democrat in the race. Do you have concerns about
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  Speaker 5: splitting the Rickets vote when I know that you think
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  Speaker 5: he shouldn't have the job.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think ultimately this is this is
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  Speaker 4: Ricketts playing dirty pool.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is this is all about them.
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  Speaker 4: They're absolutely scared right now that the workers of the world,
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  Speaker 4: the way journals of the world are uniting around a
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  Speaker 4: common cause, and that the common cause is less than
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  Speaker 4: two percent of our elected officials in both the House
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  Speaker 4: and Senate come from the working class. So it's a
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  Speaker 4: it's a country club, and they don't want people like
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  Speaker 4: me and their country club, and this is another example
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  Speaker 4: of them just you know, putting in a plant and
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  Speaker 4: the Democratic primary.
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  Speaker 2: So this is again just playing dirty pool.
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  Speaker 4: But if you want to help my race out, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we've raised, like you mentioned, were fundraising.
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  Speaker 2: We're over four million dollars now.
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  Speaker 4: Now we have almost fifty thousand donors from all fifty states.
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  Speaker 4: So this campaign truly is powered by the people. That's
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  Speaker 4: how we're organizing it. And if you want to help,
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  Speaker 4: go to osbornefercentate dot com and help a guy out.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Osborne, I want to ask you. We've talked a
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  Speaker 6: lot about skyrocketing gas prices, but something that has also
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  Speaker 6: been increasing is the increasing cost of fertilizer, which probably
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  Speaker 6: disproportionately impacts your potential constituents more than others. Have you
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  Speaker 6: had any conversations with farmers, perspective voters about what these
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  Speaker 6: high fertilizer prices mean and what they're doing to the
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  Speaker 6: local economy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I talked to farmers every day. I was just
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  Speaker 2: out at a farm.
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  Speaker 4: The guy who was good that farmers getting out of
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  Speaker 4: his John Deere to come talk to me. He farms
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  Speaker 4: nineteen hundred acres and his inputs are skyrocketing just for alone,
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  Speaker 4: for his nineteen hundred acres. He told me he's paying
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  Speaker 4: fifty thousand dollars more than he would have pre war.
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  Speaker 4: So this is playing out in real time. Farmers are
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  Speaker 4: getting screwed yet again. Pete Ricketts is rubber stamping this
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  Speaker 4: and saying, hey, I'm for the farmers.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what you can tell.
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  Speaker 4: You can tell a farmer it's sunny outside, but when
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  Speaker 4: he steps out, it's raining.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to stop believing your lies. Mister Osborne.
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering what are you hearing on the campaign trail
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  Speaker 1: from Nebraskans about the war? Are they Are they with
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  Speaker 1: the president and with the administration, or are they expressing
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  Speaker 1: frustration that it seems as though the administration is focused
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  Speaker 1: overseas and not on them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, first of all, you know, I served
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  Speaker 2: in the Navy.
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  Speaker 4: I went through the straightahorror moves twice myself on two
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  Speaker 4: Western Pacific deployments, and so my heart always goes out
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  Speaker 4: to the men and women serving in uniform.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, as far as.
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  Speaker 4: We could argue all day long tour' blue in the
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  Speaker 4: face on whether we should be there, I think we
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  Speaker 4: all understand that Iran shouldn't have a nuclear weapon, But
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  Speaker 4: what's playing out in real time is we're paying the cost.
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  Speaker 4: We're paying the cost for it right now. You know, again,
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  Speaker 4: our farmers are getting screwed. We're getting screwed. The pumps,
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  Speaker 4: grocery prices are continue to rise. My paycheck stays the same,
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  Speaker 4: while renting everything else is going up. So this is
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  Speaker 4: definitely problematic for us right now, the ones who are
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  Speaker 4: flipping the bill for this war.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Osborne, if you were to win and became a Senator,
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  Speaker 5: you would be one of the people who would have
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  Speaker 5: to say, and constitutionally supposed to say, whether or not
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  Speaker 5: we're supposed to be in around Do you believe that
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  Speaker 5: this is a just war that the United States should
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  Speaker 5: be engaged in?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm not a political pundit. I don't have
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  Speaker 4: all the information in front of me. You know, at
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  Speaker 4: face value, now it doesn't seem like it. But again,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not there. I'm not involved. Again my you know,
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  Speaker 4: I was uh enlisted, and you know, my my thoughts
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  Speaker 4: and prayers always go out to the families of service
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  Speaker 4: members and the service members themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, And there's gonna.
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  Speaker 4: Be a lot of people coming back that are gonna
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  Speaker 4: need uh, they're gonna need the v A to uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, be funded, and they're gonna they're gonna need help.
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  Speaker 4: So that's what you know, when I get in the
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  Speaker 4: US Senate, that's what I want.
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  Speaker 2: To provide for our men and women in uniform.
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  Speaker 6: Dan Osborne, thank you so much for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 4: We appreciate it.