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Nebraska State Sen. Mike McDonnell announced he is fleeing the Democrat party to become a Republican, giving the GOP what U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts calls a “filibuster-proof majority” in Nebraska’s unicameral legislature.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, left, and former Gov. Pete Ricketts laugh at a joke during the announcement of a new senator to Nebraska’s open senate seat on January 12, 2023, at Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln. Republicans now have a filibuster-proof majority in the Unicameral. Read my statement calling for Nebraska to pass winner-take-all and put one more electoral vote in the Republican column for 2024:“I am pleased to welcome Senator Mike McDonald to the Republican Team. The extreme new Democrats are pushing common-sense officials and voters to our party,” Ricketts said in a statement, emphasizing that the move establishes a “filibuster-proof Republican majority in the unicameral.
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