Posted on 01/27/2024 4:42:26 AM PST by cotton1706
PAPILLION, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - Former Tea Party darling Dan Frei of Omaha filed late last week to challenge U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Papillion in the 2024 GOP primary in the 2nd District.
Frei had no immediate comment Saturday about filing. He told the Examiner in early January that he was seriously considering a bid against Bacon. Frei later courted partisans attending a Nebraska Republican Party fundraiser in Omaha involving Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake, who has still not conceded her loss in Arizona’s 2022 governor’s race. Some leaders in the Nebraska GOP have said they prefer candidates who express more loyalty to former President Donald Trump than Bacon does. Bacon endorsed Trump in 2016 and 2020. But he has said he would not endorse Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary. Trump, during an unrelated visit to Nebraska in 2022, called Bacon a “bad guy.”
Bacon, who is running for his fifth term in Congress, is a retired Air Force brigadier general. Frei is a regional sales director for GreatAmerica Financial Services, with a background in banking, sales and information technology.
A small group of state and county party leaders worked with some of Trump’s political team to recruit potential challengers for Bacon. People close to Frei have said privately that he is trying to secure Trump’s endorsement, which would boost Frei’s ability to raise money
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Same day as presidential primary.
This is why it was important that the RNC didn't just "declare" Trump the presumptive nominee.
Trump Republicans could sweep Don Bacon (CR score 48%) out of his House seat on May 14th!
Don Bacon represents a district that Biden won in 2020 (this is why Nebraska’s electoral votes were split).
Is there any chance in hell that Dan Frei is going to be elected there — even if he defeats Bacon in the primary?
Yeah, he pretty much made it clear he was going to do that on Bannon’s war room yesterday.
He’s impressive. . .
He’s impressive. . .
Republicans have been lucky that there hasn’t been any good Democrat candidates. The last one was Brad Ashford & he was Republican before switching.
Certainly says the right things, but as always, action speaks louder than words. How many times have we been betrayed by words that do not match the actions.
Fry Bacon!
I met “Bits” Bacon in Germany when we were both colonels. He’s a mouthy little twirp.
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