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Midterms 2026 · US House

NE-02 House race: Denise Powell vs Brinker Harding

How the candidates in the Nebraska's 2nd district race are arguing their case, read the same way for each of them. Updated every 15 minutes until election day, 3 November 2026.

Cook Political Report rating: Lean D

DP
Absolutes1.1
Labeling0.7
Threat & fear0.2

Hostility this week 1.6 / 10, in line with their usual.

Audience impact, 30 days: +0.7 leans reassuring

20 Oct 2026 · WOWT 6 politics (Omaha)

Nobody wants more taxes. That’s why I support extending the middle-class tax cuts of 2017. He has voted to raise taxes over a million dollars... failing to pay his own taxes on time more than 40 times.
Absolutes

Audience impact −1 leans negative

15 Oct 2026 · WOWT 6 politics (Omaha)

I have been working to advocate for the things that I know Nebraskans care about. He was even at the midterm convention, the Trumpapalooza kissing the ring of Donald Trump just a few weeks ago. We have lost that courage. And I think it is time to bring that…

Audience impact +1 leans reassuring

15 Oct 2026 · washingtonsun.com

Cutting Medicaid, raising health insurance premiums, the tariffs, the war in Iran — Brinker Harding supports Trump on all of it.
Threat & fearLeverage

Audience impact 0 neutral

15 Oct 2026 · Campaign of Denise Powell

Brinker can’t seriously expect voters to believe that if they send him to Congress he’ll work to lower taxes when his record on the City Council shows that he’s done the exact opposite. He’s too busy to pay his own taxes on time, but he has no problem raising…
Absolutes

Audience impact 0 neutral

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BH

Brinker Harding

Republican

Absolutes0.8
Leverage0.2
Threat & fear0.2

Hostility this week 0.3 / 10 (too little history yet for a personal norm).

Audience impact, 30 days: +1 leans reassuring

21 Oct 2026 · WOWT 6 politics (Omaha)

You had over five and a half million dollars of coastal billionaire’s money and dark money. ...to buy this seat for you or the nomination for you in the primary. Reid Hoffman, one of your top supporters, Epstein Island visitor. You’ve received money and been…

Audience impact +1 leans reassuring

20 Oct 2026 · WOWT 6 politics (Omaha)

Yeah, I think what you heard in part there was more taxes. And raising taxes on that is not the simple answer to it. I mean, the answer is not more taxes. The answer is not more regulations.

Audience impact 0 neutral

15 Oct 2026 · WOWT 6 politics (Omaha)

I want to make sure that the next 250 years are the best 250 years for this country. There she goes again. My opponent keeps trying to say that I’m a rubber stamp for President Trump. The fact is that’s simply not true. I just said a minute ago, I live by the…
Absolutes

Audience impact +2 reassures or unites

14 Oct 2026 · yahoo.com

be settled as quickly as possible. We need to be energy independent, and we got lost under the Biden administration with the Green New Deal. That was something. Now we have to rely on foreign despots and their energy, and so we need to get a quick resolution…
Leverage

Audience impact −1 leans negative

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