<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1656360823923,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017b-c08e-d8fe-afff-f79f16230000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1656360823923,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017b-c08e-d8fe-afff-f79f16230000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_55753902", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1036819"} }); ","_id":"00000181-a6cc-da7c-a7c7-e7ec60f80000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedRepublican state Sen. Mike Flood won the special election in Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District to replace former Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry.
Flood beat out Democratic state Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks for the seat that was left vacant after Fortenberry was convicted of lying to the FBI about campaign contributions and resigned in March. Flood and Brooks are also facing each other in the general election in November for a full term in the solidly Republican district. Republicans backed Flood against Fortenberry when he was still on the ballot for the regular primary.
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“Today, our nation is at a crossroads,” Flood said on his campaign website. “More so than at any other point in our lifetimes, we face a choice between prosperity and socialism; traditional values or liberal wokeness; and greater freedom or bigger government. The radical Left wants to fundamentally reshape America in ways that will destroy the nation we love. We can’t let that happen.”
Flood had raised over $1.2 million, according to June Federal Election Commission filings, compared to Brooks’s nearly $800,000. The 1st District encompasses Lincoln and much of the western part of the state.
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Fortenberry was indicted on the charges last fall and gave up his committee assignments. Fortenberry was first elected to the seat in 2004 and was running for reelection when the indictment came down, which resulted in three felony convictions in a Los Angeles court and his resignation on March 31.
