Ricketts, a Republican who completed his second term as governor earlier this month, will hold the seat until a special election in 2024.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen on Thursday said he is appointing former Gov. Pete Ricketts to fill the Senate seat left vacant by Republican Ben Sasse’s resignation. The seat will then be on Nebraska’s ballot again in 2026 for a full six-year term. Pillen and Ricketts appeared together at a joint news conference at the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, where Pillen described the selection of Ricketts as “very, very obvious.
Pillen pointed to Ricketts’ ability to win elections as key to the former governor’s selection for an office he’d have to seek reelection to two consecutive cycles. Nebraska is a heavily Republican state. Former President Donald Trump carried it by 19 points in 2020. The state has not had a Democratic senator since former Sen. Ben Nelson opted against seeking reelection in 2012. Ricketts ran for the Senate once before – in 2006, when he was trounced by Nelson, a popular former governor himself.
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