‘Fake Independent’ Senate candidate funded by DC Democrats, filings show

Union chief Dan Osborn, candidate for U.S. Senate in Nebraska, has campaigned on being an “unbiased,” going as far as to say he has no plans to work with both main social gathering if elected, however his latest FEC filings paint a distinct image.

Osborn wasn’t alone endorsed by leaders of the Democratic Get together of Nebraska and mobilized fundraising on ActBlue, the Democratic Get together’s main fundraising platform. He has additionally accepted donations from a number of distinguished political motion committees of Washington Democrats and the Democratic Get together.

His marketing campaign donors embrace the marketing campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and the PACs of former Democratic Sens. Bob Kerrey and Jon Tester. Democracy Summer season, a management PAC based by Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, additionally donated $2,000.

The newest FEC filings, launched final week, additionally present that Osborn continues to simply accept fundraising assist from The Folks United, a left-wing tremendous PAC that has backed Democratic “Squad” members corresponding to Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Summer season Lee and Ilhan Omar.

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Union chief Dan Osborn is working for the second consecutive election to turn into a U.S. senator after dropping in 2024. (Leigh Vogel/Wire Picture and Invoice Clark/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Photographs)

“As an unbiased, I shall be uniquely positioned to deliver collectively a majority to get this performed,” Osborn’s “The place I Stand” net web page mentioned on his marketing campaign web site, referring to securing the border in opposition to unlawful immigration. “I imagine all of us have extra in frequent with one another than with the partisans who run Washington.”

However these “partisans” in Washington, a minimum of a few of them, look like serving to finance his marketing campaign in opposition to former Nebraska Republican Get together governor and present Nebraska junior senator Pete Ricketts.

“Dan Osborn is being purchased and paid for by his out-of-state liberal coastal donors,” a marketing campaign spokesman for Ricketts mentioned earlier after Osborn introduced he would combat for a Senate seat for the second straight election.

In 2024, Osborn was inside single digits of defeating Senator Deb Fischer. Fischer’s marketing campaign made related claims that Osborn was truly a Democrat disguised as an unbiased.

A Fox Information Digital evaluation discovered that in his failed 2024 Senate marketing campaign, Osborn acquired a number of $5,000 donations from the main PACs of Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, amongst others. Warren’s Senate marketing campaign additionally donated one other $2,000 to Osborn final 12 months.

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Dan Osborn, unbiased candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks throughout a press convention and broadcasts that he is not going to settle for any social gathering or political endorsement at his house in Omaha, Neb., on Could 15, 2024. (Nikos Frazier/Omaha World-Herald by way of AP)

“Elizabeth Warren is taken into account essentially the most far-left politician in Washington,” Ricketts advised Fox Information Digital. “She helps the Inexperienced New Deal, tax breaks for unlawful immigrants and abolishing non-public well being care. By accepting marketing campaign funds from Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer and Bob Kerrey, Dan Osborn has proven Nebraska voters precisely who he’ll facet with within the Senate: the identical Democrats who’re bankrolling his bogus unbiased marketing campaign.”

Fox Information Digital reached out to marketing campaign representatives for Osborn however didn’t obtain a response.

The donations Osborn lately acquired from the likes of Warren, Kerrey, Tester, Raskin and different Washington Democrats totaled about $15,000 this quarter; Nevertheless, simply days earlier than his race in opposition to Fischer in November 2024, Osborn acquired a big infusion from the Democratic Senatorial Marketing campaign Committee (DSCC) value nearly $60,000. The Senate Majority PAC, the primary tremendous PAC of Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, additionally spent $3.85 million supporting Dan Osborn’s 2024 marketing campaign, information present.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Chuck Schumer, DY, have donated to the marketing campaign of Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn. (Kayla Bartkowski and Kevin Dietsch by way of Getty Photographs)

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The company serving to create and run advertisements for Osborn’s marketing campaign is named Combat Company. Combat Company was based by a gaggle of Democratic Get together strategists, together with advisers to Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential marketing campaign and the successful Senate bid for Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman and Arizona Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego.

The company has labored with left-wing Democrats corresponding to New York Metropolis socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders and progressive Democrat Greg Casar.