Nebraska’s Dan Osborn says mocking Trump voters ‘came from a place of passion’

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Nebraska independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn said on Tuesday that his criticism of rural supporters of President Donald Trump from a recently leaked audio “came from a place of passion.”

Osborn is still managing the fallout in which he suggested a fictitious voter in the small town of Red Cloud, Nebraska, supports Trump because “all he knows is that he’s on the winning team” and “because their lives probably suck so f***ing bad.”

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