Herbster and Pillen are pretty far ahead of the rest of the pack. If anything, Pillen looks like he is running to Trump-Endorsed Herbster’s right.
Raw plurality wins, but Dems switching over to vote for Lindstrom look to be spinning their wheels from where I sit in Arizona.
I haven’t seen any recent poll suggesting it’s NOT a 3-way race, including the RINO squish (and liberal darling) Lindstrom. It’s supposedly close enough between the 3 that the 2 good candidates could easily split the conservative vote, and the next Nebraska Governor will be a Democrat one way or the other — he just might “identify” as a Republican, in Lindstrom’s case, but he’s still really a Democrat.
Nebraska can and should do better, but there’s a decent chance they won’t.
Pillen is well-known and respected but I think he’s going to look like “more of the same”, which isn’t a plus in these crazy times. A lot depends on how Herbster weathers these storms.