Cindy Burbank won Nebraska’s Democratic Party U.S. Senate primary race on Tuesday with 89% of the vote, announcing plans to withdraw from the contest before the November general election to create a path for independent candidate Dan Osborn to challenge Republican incumbent Sen. Pete Ricketts in the deep-red state.
Burbank defeated Democrat opponent William Forbes by accusing him of being a plant for Ricketts. Her campaign website stated: “Pete Ricketts is putting in a candidate loyal to him in the Democratic primary — to split the vote against him, so he wins easily. He’s running an anti-abortion activist named Bill Forbes, who has posted in support of Pete Ricketts!”
Burbank said she “has no expectations of being able to win in November.” She claimed that Ricketts “knows he’s losing to Dan Osborn and this is his plan to cheat his way to victory,” arguing that Osborn “deserves a fair shot against Ricketts” in the upcoming general election.
