National Democrats target Mike Flood in Nebraska’s CD1
A progressive nonpartisan former U.S. House candidate might prove prophetic for having said Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Flood was more vulnerable than many in eastern Nebraska's 1st Congressional District understood.
Now that Austin Ahlman has left the challenger's role to its primary pursuer, Democratic nominee and former diplomat Chris Backemeyer, national Democrats appear to agree.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a national group that steers national donors toward races it believes are competitive or could become so, has, for the first time in two decades, identified a Nebraska House contest outside the Omaha-based 2nd District as worthy of investment.
The DCCC on Wednesday announced it was adding the Lincoln-weighted eastern Nebraska congressional race to its Districts-in-Play program, showing party leaders increasingly view the 1st District as competitive. It's a formal step toward the DCCC potentially backing and investing in an individual candidate like Backemeyer…