2024 United States presidential election in Nebraska

2024 United States presidential election in Nebraska

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The 2024 United States presidential election in Nebraska is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Nebraska voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Nebraska has 5 electoral votes.

A sparsely-populated and overwhelmingly-White state in the Great Plains, Nebraska has voted Republican in nearly every presidential election since its statehood, making exceptions only for favorite son William Jennings Bryan; Woodrow Wilson; Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first two terms; and landslide winner Lyndon B. Johnson. Presidential Democrats have not even been able to come within single digits of carrying the state after LBJ's narrow sweep in his 1964 landslide, and the only one to win more than 40% of the state vote since then was Barack Obama who garnered 41.60% in 2008.

However, the state's 2nd congressional district, which contains Omaha and some of its suburbs, has been competitive since 2008, when Obama narrowly won the district by 1.22% in the first election where Nebraska — one of two states that can split their electoral votes, the other being Maine — awarded a Democrat any of its electoral votes in 44 years. This leftward shift is primarily owed to recent population growth experienced by the Omaha metropolitan area. In 2020, NE-2 flipped back to the Democratic column when Joe Biden won it by 6.5%. Nebraska at-large is expected to remain solidly red, while NE-2 is considered a tossup or leaning towards the Democratic candidate.[1] Tim Walz, the running mate of Kamala Harris and incumbent governor of Minnesota, was born and raised in Nebraska.[2]

In 2024, there was a push from some Republicans who attempted to get rid of split electoral college vote to winner-takes-all voting. This was supported by Former President Donald Trump, Governor Jim Pillen, 2nd District Congressman Don Bacon,[3] and Charlie Kirk from Turning Point USA.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ "270toWin - 2024 Presidential Election Interactive Map". 270toWin.com. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
  2. ^ Searcey, Dionne (August 6, 2024). "Walz Grew Up in Rural Nebraska, Where Finding a Date 'Was Kind of a Problem'". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Montellardo, Zach (April 10, 2024). "Nebraska Republicans float special session to revive Trump-backed election rule change". Politico. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  4. ^ Pengelly, Martin (April 3, 2024). "Far-right podcaster prompts Nebraska move to change electoral system". The Guardian.
  5. ^ Kerr, Nicholas (April 3, 2024). "Lawmakers skeptical of enacting Trump-backed bill in Nebraska that could give him edge over Biden". ABC News.
  6. ^ Kamisar, Ben; Bowman, Bridget; Smith, Allan (April 3, 2024). "Trump and GOP leaders push to change Nebraska electoral votes to winner-take-all". NBC News.

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