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Omaha Steve

(106,406 posts)
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:05 AM Jul 15

Retired Navy veteran Kishla Askins joins Nebraska 2nd District U.S. House race (Blue Dot)


The former Biden administration VA assistant secretary is running to serve something greater than herself
By: Juan Salinas II - July 15, 2025 4:00 am



Retired Navy veteran Kishla Askins is running in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District. (Courtesy of Matt Cashore for the Kishla Askins campaign)

LINCOLN — The Democratic primary for the open U.S. House seat in Nebraska’s Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District is getting crowded.

Retired U.S. Navy veteran Kishla Askins, a former deputy assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs under President Joe Biden, is running to be the first Democrat to represent the district in nearly a decade.

“I am the only one ready on day one,” Askins told the Nebraska Examiner. “I am the only one who can walk into Congress and understand how Congress works.”

For 30 years, Askins said she and her wife have lived where the military told them to live. She grew up in Toledo, Ohio, but her wife, Alison, grew up in Omaha and Lincoln, and now they get to live “back home.”

FULL story: https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/07/15/retired-navy-veteran-kishla-askins-joins-crowded-nebraska-2nd-district-u-s-house-race/

Kishla is the fifth D candidate in the primary next March. There will be at least one more candidate when she announces in the near future. As soon as Kishla has an ActBlue page, I'll create a DU link to it.

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Retired Navy veteran Kishla Askins joins Nebraska 2nd District U.S. House race (Blue Dot) (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jul 15 OP
Kick Omaha Steve Jul 15 #1
I just hope there aren't too many Democratic primary candidates, MineralMan Jul 15 #2
Kick Omaha Steve Jul 15 #3

MineralMan

(149,506 posts)
2. I just hope there aren't too many Democratic primary candidates,
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 02:40 PM
Jul 15

and that the competition doesn't lead to Democrats skipping the general election vote if their favorite isn't the candidate.

That's what worries me sometimes.

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