Weapons and abortion proper out of the chute.

These are basic variations between Flood and Pansing Brooks and there will probably be extra coming in a partisan Congress that’s setting the stage for a battle for management of the Home and the Senate throughout a dynamic election yr.

On Nov. 8, it’s more likely to be rural counties versus Lincoln as soon as once more in Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District because it was within the dramatic division that emerged within the particular election final month.

Flood is clearly decided to make Lincoln extra comfy with him and Pansing Brooks is aware of that she’s going to want all of the votes she will be able to collect in her dwelling city to attempt to stave off the agricultural Republican tide that propelled Flood to victory within the particular election on June 28.

Pansing Brooks gained Lancaster County by 10,050 votes whereas Flood racked up enormous margins in 11 rural counties, seven of which he gained with 82% of the vote or extra. 

Whereas Pansing Brooks has a powerful base in her dwelling city, the agricultural vote in Lancaster County eats away on the city margin.

Jeff Fortenberry misplaced Lincoln in his final two congressional races, but it surely was a really shut tally when all of the votes have been counted in Lancaster County.

Kate Bolz defeated Fortenberry in Lancaster County by 746 votes in 2020 and Jessica McClure gained by 1,575 in 2018. These votes replicate a lot bigger margins inside Lincoln. They usually assist outline the scale of Pansing Brooks’ margin throughout the metropolis final month. 

Whereas Pansing Brooks has developed her personal rigorously constructed message, which centered on abortion rights in June within the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court docket resolution to wipe out Roe v. Wade just a few days earlier than the particular election, the highlight is more likely to focus this summer time on Flood’s congressional report.

And that might emerge because the crux of the final election battle.

It is already creating and defining points for November.

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Charles Herbster has praised the dramatic change in Nebraska Republican Occasion management created by the rebellion on the GOP state conference in Kearney every week in the past.

And Herbster means that Liberty Republicans and Patriot Republicans must be invited to take part now.

Liberty Republicans are a part of the Libertarian motion and their platform consists of elimination of some federal businesses and an finish to international help.

Patriot Republicans are a motion usually connected to former President Donald Trump. 

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* Why trouble being president whenever you might be Joe Manchin and resolve all the large stuff?

* NASA’s new telescopic look into area is mind-boggling, mentally overwhelming, a lesson in humility and a dramatic reminder of what we do not know. Like many of the huge stuff.

* Flood would be the new child on the block when the Nebraska congressional delegation gathers as soon as once more on the Aerospace Museum in Ashland subsequent month for the annual Chamber of Commerce legislative summit. The interplay on stage is all the time revealing — and generally amusing.

* The Republican Occasion revolution in Kearney has created an entire new political dynamic within the state, however in all probability has not impacted main statewide and congressional races. Possibly some legislative races?

* It continues to look that there actually is not a whole lot of concern for the lives of grandchildren and future generations in a Congress that refuses to take decisive motion to fight, scale back or restrict the influence of local weather change.

* OK, let’s toast Frank Solich on the large stage on the Oklahoma sport in Lincoln in September — if he’ll allow us to.  

* What if Trump had gone to the Capitol on January sixth, as he clearly needed to do?  What would he have accomplished?