Here’s why Hillary Clinton is campaigning in deep-red Nebraska

Published August 1, 2016 4:52pm ET



Hillary Clinton’s hunt for Electoral College votes takes her to Nebraska on Monday, a seemingly odd place to kick off her first full week as the Democratic presidential nominee.

The GOP nominee won the popular vote in the deep-red state of Nebraska in 2012 and 2008, but the Clinton campaign thinks it has a shot of swiping a single Electoral College vote just as Obama did in 2008. The Clinton campaign’s stop in Omaha suggests it is not taking the recent polling bump she received after the convention for granted.

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