Democrats are emphasizing winning one specific district in Nebraska this November over campaigning in other states as the blue wall in the upper midwest states starts losing electoral power.
The Democratic super PAC Future Forward USA recently reserved about $130 million in advertising from late August through Election Day, including $3.7 million in Nebraska’s 2nd District. The super PAC had only spent $698,775 in the same district in 2020.
The decision comes as Democrats have less of a sure thing in crucial swing states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin due to population changes.
“The industrial north strategy — the old blue wall that held even for Al Gore and John Kerry when they lost — you now need Nebraska-2 to make that math work,” Kyle Kondik, an election handicapper at the University of Virginia’s
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