EXCLUSIVE — A Nebraska Republican Party official resigned over the weekend, days after the failure of a legislative effort to change Electoral College vote rules that helped President Joe Biden in 2020 and could again this year in one of the nation’s otherwise reddest states.
Doug Petersen stepped down as 2nd Congressional District chairman after heading the Republican operation in a Greater Omaha area district that has been at the center of an intraparty GOP political firestorm of late. Nebraska’s unicameral legislature, where Republicans hold a majority, on April 3 rejected a proposal to change how the state allocates its electoral votes in presidential elections, a move that would help former President Donald Trump if enacted.
Peterson expressed frustration with the Nebraska GOP as it fought over the electoral rule change and more broadly has been at war with itself
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