Dan Osborn, the Impartial Senate Candidate Who May Tip Nebraska


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As management of the Senate hangs within the steadiness, many eyes are on Dan Osborn, of Nebraska. He’s a dream candidate for the Democrats: a mechanic within the food-processing trade, a former president of his native union, and a veteran of the Navy and the Military Nationwide Guard. However Osborn isn’t a Democrat; he’s working as an unbiased. Polls present a detailed or tied race with the Republican incumbent, Pete Ricketts, an inheritor to a monetary fortune. David Remnick talks with Osborn about main a strike at a Kellogg’s plant, how Donald Trump’s tariffs are affecting voters in an agricultural state, and Osborn’s determination to not caucus with both occasion if he wins the seat.

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