{"id":171160,"date":"2026-03-22T05:21:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/171160\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T05:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:21:31","slug":"who-is-ahead-in-nebraskas-2nd-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/171160\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Ahead in Nebraska&#8217;s 2nd Congressional District?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"svelte-17kb3tr\">An open race to represent the Omaha metropolitan area should be interesting to watch because the congressional district was one of only three in the United States that elected a Republican representative in 2024 while also voting for Kamala Harris over Donald J. Trump. With Representative Don Bacon not seeking re-election, Brinker Harding, a member of the Omaha City Council, is expected to be the Republican nominee. The Democratic primary, meanwhile, has numerous candidates, including John Cavanaugh, a state senator; Crystal Rhoades, a district court clerk and former public service commissioner; Denise Powell, a founder of the political group Women Who Run Nebraska; and James Leuschen, a former policy director for Representative Steny Hoyer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An open race to represent the Omaha metropolitan area should be interesting to watch because the congressional district&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[416,859,46937,58612,9,11,10,1707],"class_list":["post-171160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-elections","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-nebraska","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-polls-and-public-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}