Former Nebraska U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn decided Thursday to explore another run for the Senate, this time against Republican U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts in the midterms.

Former independent U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn announced Thursday he’s forming an exploratory committee for a possible second Senate run in 2026.

Dan Osborn, the independent Senate candidate who nearly toppled an incumbent Republican last year, is taking steps to prove his overperformance in deep-red Nebraska was no fluke.

Dan Osborn expands the number of Nebraska offices he is eyeing Says he is considering bids for 1st, 2nd District in U.S. House, Senate bid against Ricketts and governor’s race ...

LINCOLN – Former Nebraska U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn has expanded his options for a next possible run for office to a seat in the U.S. Senate or House or a bid for the Governor’s Mansion.

U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn meets with prospective voters at a Big Red Keno in west Lincoln on Oct. 20, 2024. (Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner) LINCOLN – Former Nebraska U.S. Senate ...

Dan Osborn, an independent, blue-collar populist who ran an unusually competitive campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska, launched a new political action committee, the Working ...

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (LINCOLN, NE) — Dan Osborn, a former union president and Navy veteran who ran an unusually competitive U.S. Senate campaign in deep-red Nebraska as ...

Populist independent candidate Dan Osborn has lost his bid for U.S. Senate in Nebraska to two-term Republican incumbent Sen. Deb Fischer. The result helps solidify the GOP’s control of the ...

As voters in Nebraska head to the polls, Dan Osborn, an upstart independent challenger to Republican Sen. Deb Fischer, has a chance to pull off the most shocking upset of the 2024 campaign.

Dan Osborn, independent candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks during a news conference, May 15, 2024, at his Omaha, Nebraska, home. (Nikos Frazier/Omaha World-Herald via AP, File) ...

Dan Osborn, an independent running for one of Nebraska's U.S. Senate seats, talks to supporters during a campaign event in a Lincoln keno bar Oct. 20, 2024. Osborn, a veteran of the U.S. Navy and the ...