{"id":967,"date":"2026-05-13T06:40:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:40:50","slug":"nebraska-democratic-senate-primary-winner-says-shell-drop-out-to-support-independent-in-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=967","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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=967\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","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\/967","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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}