{"id":908,"date":"2026-05-12T17:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=908"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:52:58","slug":"democrats-look-to-flip-nebraskas-blue-dot-as-state-holds-primaries-for-house-and-senate-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"Democrats look to flip Nebraska\u2019s \u2018blue dot\u2019 as state holds primaries for 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=908\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}