{"id":73439,"date":"2026-05-13T01:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/nebraska-democratic-senate-primary-winner-says-shell-drop-out-to-support-independent-in-general-election\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T01:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:54:54","slug":"nebraska-democratic-senate-primary-winner-says-shell-drop-out-to-support-independent-in-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/nebraska-democratic-senate-primary-winner-says-shell-drop-out-to-support-independent-in-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska Democratic Senate primary winner says she\u2019ll drop out to support independent in general election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Burbank, who bested an alleged Republican plant, says she\u2019ll step aside for Dan Osborn in general election<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Democratic challenger who said she intends to drop out of November\u2019s race for the US Senate in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/nebraska\">Nebraska<\/a> to clear the way for an independent candidate has won the state\u2019s Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Burbank ran against William Forbes, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> contended was a Republican plant in the race, with the intent to drop out if she won. Forbes, a pastor who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/30\/politics\/nebraska-senate-trump-pastor\">voted for Trump<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/flatwaterfreepress.org\/a-trump-voting-nebraska-pastor-is-running-for-senate-as-a-democrat-he-insists-its-in-good-faith\/\">opposed abortion access<\/a>, is currently registered as a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/nebraska-demoratic-house-primary-winner-cindy-burbank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Burbank, who bested an alleged Republican plant, says she\u2019ll step aside for Dan Osborn in general election Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A Democratic challenger who said she intends to drop out of November\u2019s race for the US Senate in Nebraska to clear the way for an independent candidate has &#8230; <a title=\"Nebraska Democratic Senate primary winner says she\u2019ll drop out to support independent in general election\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/nebraska-democratic-senate-primary-winner-says-shell-drop-out-to-support-independent-in-general-election\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Nebraska Democratic Senate primary winner says she\u2019ll drop out to support independent in general election\">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-73439","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\/73439","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=73439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}