# Pete Ricketts wins Nebraska Senate race, making Dan Osborn two-time loser

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/pete-ricketts-wins-nebraska-senate-race-making-dan-osborn-two-time-loser/
- Published: 2026-11-04T08:35:12+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T03:41:45+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://nypost.com/2026/11/04/us-news/pete-ricketts-wins-nebraska-senate-race-making-dan-osborn-two-time-loser/
- Topics: Elections, Government, Politics, World

## Key points

- Pete Ricketts won a full six-year Senate term.
- Dan Osborn lost his second Nebraska Senate race.
- Trump campaigned for Ricketts before election day.

## Summary

Pete Ricketts won a full six-year US Senate term in Nebraska after defeating Dan Osborn, an independent candidate, in a closely contested race. The result keeps the seat with Republicans in a reliably GOP state and ends Osborn’s second unsuccessful Senate campaign.

Ricketts, 62, was appointed to the Senate in 2023 after serving two terms as Nebraska governor. Osborn, 51, a union leader who led a 2021 strike at an Omaha Kellogg’s plant, ran without a Democrat on the ballot and was accused by Ricketts’s allies of being aligned with Democrats. President Donald Trump campaigned for Ricketts in October; Osborn also faced criticism after leaked audio captured him mocking some Trump supporters.

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