Pelosi will address Nebraska Democrats in red state visit

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be the keynote speaker at the Nebraska Democratic Party's annual Morrison Exon fundraiser on Oct. 26 in Omaha.

Pelosi's decision to come to a rural red state carries with it a message that Democrats are preparing to compete everywhere in 2020.

And the visit to Nebraska is packaged with the lure of a potential presidential electoral vote, one that Democratic nominee Barack Obama vigorously sought and won 11 years ago.

The Nebraska Democratic Party is "working to deliver that blue dot once again by flipping congressional seats red to blue and sending our Democratic nominee to the White House with an electoral vote," state party Chair Jane Kleeb said Thursday.

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(Lincoln Journal Star)