Labor Union leader Dan Osborn is running for a second election in a row to be a U.S. Senator after losing in 2024. (Leigh Vogel/Wire Image and Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
"As an independent, I’ll be uniquely positioned to bring together a majority to get it done," Osborn's "Where I Stand" webpage on his campaign website states, in reference to securing the border from illegal immigration. "I believe we all have more in common with each other than we do with the partisans who run Washington," the campaign website's homepage also states.
But those "partisans" in Washington, at least some, appear to be helping fund his campaign against former Nebraska GOP Governor and current junior Nebraska Senator Pete Ricketts.
"Dan Osborn is bought and paid for by his liberal, out-of-state, coastal donors," a Ricketts campaign spokesman previously said after Osborn announced he would be fighting to get a seat in the Senate for the second election in a row.
In 2024, Osborn came within single-digits of defeating Sen. Deb Fischer. Similar to the attacks by the Ricketts campaign against Osborn, Fischer's campaign made similar claims that Osborn was really a Democrat disguising himself as an Independent.
A Fox News Digital review found that during his failed 2024 Senate campaign, Osborn received several $5,000 donations from the leadership PACs of Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, among others. Warren's Senate campaign also donated another $2,000 to Osborn last year.
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Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have donated to Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn's campaign. (Kayla Bartkowski and Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images)
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Meanwhile, the agency helping create and run advertisements for Osborn's campaign is called Fight Agency. Fight Agency was founded by a group of Democratic Party strategists, including consultants for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign and the winning Senate bid for Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman and Arizona Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego.
The agency has worked with left-wing Democrats like New York City socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, and progressive Democrat Rep. Greg Casar.
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