Independent Dan Osborn announced another bid to represent Nebraska in the Senate on Tuesday, challenging GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts after his loss in an unexpectedly competitive race against a Republican incumbent last year.

Independent candidate Dan Osborn will run in Nebraska‘s 2026 U.S. Senate race, his campaign announced Tuesday. Osborn lost an unexpectedly close race to Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) in 2024 after cultivating a pro-union,

On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that Osborn, an independent in the 2024 race against Sen. Deb Fischer, will now run against Sen. Pete Ricketts in the 2026 election. Osborn received 436,493 votes in the race against Fischer. He was a political upstart in that race, submitting around 12,500 signatures to appear on the ballot.