Dan Osborn
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Sep 14, 2026
Chris CillizzaHOST
So it's a two way race, a Republican against an independent.
Chris CillizzaHOST
It's gotten less buzz.
Chris CillizzaHOST
I have to say the Nebraska where you have another incumbent, uh, you have, you have an incumbent Senator and Pete Ricketts running against an independent without a Democrat guy named Dan Osborne.
Chris CillizzaHOST
We can look at that after this is 98 to two.
Chris CillizzaHOST
Does that mean Brian Banks has almost no chance of winning?
Jeffrey SkellyHOST
Yeah.
Jeffrey SkellyHOST
Who are functioning as the Democratic nominee in a lot of these races.
Jeffrey SkellyHOST
Uh, Dan, Dan Osborne has the best shot, but right now he only has about a 15%.
Connell McShaneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Good to see you, Paul.
Paul RieckhoffHOST
Good to see you, my friend.
Connell McShaneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Who's on with us every week.
Connell McShaneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, I've never heard your story in full.
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Connell McShaneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That, that-
Paul RieckhoffHOST
Yeah
Connell McShaneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
... back then, I had a lot of friends who did that, so anyway.
Paul RieckhoffHOST
Yeah, you know, I, I had joined in 1998 and I, and I, you know, I graduated college and joined the Army, and a lot of people looked at me like, "What the heck are you doing?"
Dan OsbornGUEST
And I believe in the words of Abraham Lincoln, this is a government by and for the people.
Dan OsbornGUEST
This isn't a government for Democrats or Republicans.
David SirotaHOST
That's Dan Osborne.
David SirotaHOST
a Navy veteran turned industrial mechanic.
David SirotaHOST
And in 2026, Dan Osborne is running for the U.S. Senate as a populist independent who seems to have no filter and no patience for bullshit.
David SirotaHOST
He's a union guy through and through, serving as the president of the Bakery Confectionery Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, Local 50G.
David SirotaHOST
That's a union that mainly represents workers in the food processing industry.
David SirotaHOST
Dan Osborne was in that industry when he worked at a Kellogg's plant in Omaha.
Tara McGowanHOST
And we are seeing a a lot of candidates running really, really, really competitive races in battleground states vying to take back the Senate.
Tara McGowanHOST
We're talking about folks like Dan Osborne, an independent running for the Senate in Nebraska, Mary Paltola, who is running as a Democrat, but she's practically independent in Alaska in a competitive race.
Tara McGowanHOST
John Ossoff, of course, in Georgia, another battleground state.
Tara McGowanHOST
All of them are talking about the Epstein cover-up and the Epstein class in their ads.
Jane KleebGUEST
The Republican Party was trying to force us to put a Democratic candidate on the ballot line.
Jane KleebGUEST
We chose to leave that ballot line open because we are supporting Dan Osborne.
Jane KleebGUEST
He's a mechanic, a Navy veteran.
Jane KleebGUEST
We think that he is a better suited to beat a billionaire Pete Ricketts.
Mark CunninghamPANELIST
They actually are supporting the independent candidate.
Mark CunninghamPANELIST
They're saying we're not going to put a Democrat up because Dan Osborne is a popular candidate.
Mark CunninghamPANELIST
So, you know, it did not work out for them in Montana where they're going to have a weird kind of, you know, 20 percent of the Democrat, 20 percent for the independent.
Mark CunninghamPANELIST
But the Democrats, I think, have made a smart move, at least as an institution to say, hey, the more candidates, the worse for us here.
Mark CunninghamPANELIST
if we can try to go one-on-one, especially with an unpopular Trump, that is our best case scenario.
Mark CunninghamPANELIST
And even if it's not somebody who might be exactly on our side, again, like Osborne in Nebraska, you know, we want to try to get as close as we can to the majority.
Mark CunninghamPANELIST
And even if we don't have the majority, you know, Bernie Sanders is independent, but if you have Dan Osborne who votes with you, 75% of the time, that's way better than the alternative for them.
Mark CunninghamPANELIST
So I do think the Democrats have been smart in the Mountain West area and even the Midwest.
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
We'll dig into that and much more.
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
But first, our next guest is looking to unseat Republican senator Pete Ricketts in Nebraska.
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
Independent candidate Dan Osborne is standing by.
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
How he plans to win his election this November.
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
Morning Joe will be right back.
Dan OsborneGUEST
No smoke-filled back rooms either.
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
Okay.
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
That's part of a new campaign ad for Dan Osborne.
Hillary ClintonGUEST
I saw Jason Crow talking about that.
Hillary ClintonGUEST
I saw Dan Osborne talking about that earlier on this show.
Hillary ClintonGUEST
These are real events in people's lives.
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
Mm-hmm.
Tony KennettHOST
Again, sure, these candidates... will then go to their own people.
Tony KennettHOST
The Democrat, is it Osborne, who's running as an independent in Nebraska? Osborne was caught on tape, I believe so.
Tony KennettHOST
It's hard keeping all these people out.
Tony KennettHOST
Yeah, yeah, so Dan Osborne is running as an independent mechanic and Navy vet for Senate.
Tony KennettHOST
There is audio that has been leaked in the last week.
Tony KennettHOST
where he went to a lot of Democrats and said, oh, sure, I believe all of this insane, crazy, radical crap, but I can't say that because in order to win, I need all of these Republicans to vote for me.
Theodore RossHOST
And it's between an independent who's sort of a Democrat.
Theodore RossHOST
His name is Dan Osborne and Pete Ricketts, the owner of the Cubs.
Theodore RossHOST
And they had a debate last week in Grand Isle, Nebraska, which is the home of a very large JBS meatpacking plant.
Theodore RossHOST
We had somebody from there covering it.
Theodore RossHOST
I've been to the one in Texas.
Theodore RossHOST
Anyway, during the debate...
Theodore RossHOST
Ricketts, the owner of the Cubs, and a billionaire, is debating with Dan Osborne, who got his start as a labor organizer, organizing workers at a Kellogg's plant, trying to get them to go out when they were going to ship jobs out.
Theodore RossHOST
And Ricketts, they're talking about the cost of food, and he mentions...
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