The city hasn’t had a Democratic mayor since 2013
EDIT: Not only that, but looking to win by a large margin while heavily outspent. The Republican spent around ~$1.3 million vs the Democrats spending ~$550 thousand
https://www.wowt.com/video/2025/05/07/officials-release-update-campaign-spending-omaha-mayoral-race/
And don’t be a fucking Scheumer and roll over the first instance the President or your Governor barks at you.
State & local dem parties have, generally speaking, been better about standing up compared to the national party
Obviously not 100% of them, but certainly a lot more
See: States limiting involvement with ICE, tons of state AGs suing trump, Maine’s Governor directly challenging trump’s anti trans actions and winning, NY Governor challenging trump’s threats on pulling congesting pricing, Illinois Governor signing an EO to limit the state’s sharing of any Autism data with the federal government after RFK’s registry comments, etc.
Former cop. We will see.
I’d like to think that LSU baseball has something to do with this by fans buying 68,888 Jello-shots at the college World Series.
Lincoln, NE had democrats win big as well. Omaha was always the swing area, and the rest of Nebraska is dark red.
I did my part!
