{"id":73407,"date":"2026-05-12T11:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/nebraskans-head-to-the-polls-as-democrats-vote-in-primaries-ahead-of-house-and-senate-races\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:55:03","slug":"nebraskans-head-to-the-polls-as-democrats-vote-in-primaries-ahead-of-house-and-senate-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/nebraskans-head-to-the-polls-as-democrats-vote-in-primaries-ahead-of-house-and-senate-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraskans head to the polls as Democrats vote in primaries ahead of House and Senate races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates jostle to represent the second congressional district, and a Republican\u2019s Senate seat looks ripe to flip<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/12\/donald-trump-china-iran-redistricting-jeffrey-epstein-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/nebraska\">Nebraska<\/a> Democrats are bullish about Republican losses in the right-leaning Plains state \u2013 but their prospects depend on today\u2019s Democratic primaries, which include accusations of planted candidates and inadvertently depriving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> of power.<\/p>\n<p>A crowded Democratic primary in the state\u2019s second congressional district, referred to as its \u201cblue dot\u201d, has focused around concerns that if a state senator wins, the Republican governor will replace him with a Republican who would help overturn Nebraska\u2019s divided electoral college vote system.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/nebraska-house-senate-democratic-primary-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates jostle to represent the second congressional district, and a Republican\u2019s Senate seat looks ripe to flip US politics live \u2013 latest updates Nebraska Democrats are bullish about Republican losses in the right-leaning Plains state \u2013 but their prospects depend on today\u2019s Democratic primaries, which include accusations of planted candidates and inadvertently depriving Democrats of &#8230; <a title=\"Nebraskans head to the polls as Democrats vote in primaries ahead of House and Senate races\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/nebraskans-head-to-the-polls-as-democrats-vote-in-primaries-ahead-of-house-and-senate-races\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Nebraskans head to the polls as Democrats vote in primaries ahead of House and Senate races\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}