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Noteworthy Missing Endorsements · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Check with Chip, brought to you by Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red, turning the blue dot red one podcast
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  Speaker 1: at a time. Here's a quick look at a few
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  Speaker 1: numbers and endorsements in the Nebraska District 2 congressional race.
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  Speaker 1: For Republican Brinker Harding, $ 1. 2 million of his $ 1. 4 million
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  Speaker 1: that he has raised has come from Nebraska. That's 86%.
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  Speaker 1: For Democrat Denise Powell, $ 1 million of her $ 3. 2 million
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  Speaker 1: has come from Nebraska. That's 31%. Hence the Dark Money
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  Speaker 1: Denise nickname, referring to the torrent of outside anonymous donations
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  Speaker 1: to her campaign in the primary and now in the
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  Speaker 1: general election. All the top local, state, and federal Republican
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  Speaker 1: politicians and leaders have endorsed Harding. I don't put a
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  Speaker 1: lot of emphasis on that because what do you expect?
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  Speaker 1: parties rally to their nominees in the general election. It's
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  Speaker 1: really only noteworthy if there is an absence of expected endorsements.
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  Speaker 1: Which brings us to Powell. I don't believe any of
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  Speaker 1: her fellow Democratic candidates from the primary campaign have endorsed
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  Speaker 1: her in the general election. That's at the very least odd.
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  Speaker 1: I see Mayor John Ewing and some other prominent local
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  Speaker 1: Democrats at the endorsement page of Powell's website, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't see anyone named Kavanaugh or Begley. I see Maureen Boyle,
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  Speaker 1: daughter of the late Mike and Ann Boyle, as a
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  Speaker 1: Powell endorser. But the absence of two very important and
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  Speaker 1: active legacy Democratic families, which combined currently feature two state senators,
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  Speaker 1: a city council member, and an MUD board member, leads
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  Speaker 1: me to conclude that that at least some local Democrats
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  Speaker 1: do not consider Powell one of them. It was State
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  Speaker 1: Senator John Kavanaugh's campaign that christened Powell Dark Money Denise
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  Speaker 1: in the primary. Powell has lived in Nebraska for 17 years,
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  Speaker 1: but where is her political center of gravity? Given his
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  Speaker 1: 40 years of service in city government as an officeholder
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  Speaker 1: and staffer, and the source of his financial support, there
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  Speaker 1: is no doubt that Harding's center of gravity is in
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  Speaker 1: District 2. That's Check with Chip. I'm Chip Maxwell. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for listening.