Nebraska and Maine are the only states that split their electoral votes by congressional district, and both have done so in recent presidential elections. In Nebraska, which is solidly Republican, that means one of the state's five votes is competitive for Democrats.

Candidates for the Nebraska Legislature spent a record total of $3.5 million and set other new spending records while competing for spots on the November ballot this year.

A single Republican state senator appears to be holding back a push by Donald J. Trump to net a potentially pivotal electoral vote even before ballots are cast.

A top Donald Trump ally is pressuring Nebraska Republicans to award all of their state’s Electoral College votes to the statewide winner, a late-stage rule change that could potentially help return Trump to the White House.

Nebraska is one of two states that award some of its electoral votes by congressional district. A vote from the Omaha area is part of Harris’s easiest path to victory.

As the Trump campaign pressures Nebraska Republicans for a change that would net him an electoral vote, state law in Maine would block Democrats from making a counter-move.

Former President Donald Trump spoke by phone Wednesday with at least one of the two dozen Republican state senators who attended Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen’s winner-take-all meeting at the Governor’s Mansion.

Donald Trump, with the help of Lindsey Graham, is pushing for Nebraska to change it's allocation of electoral votes to give himself an advantage.

“To my friends in Nebraska,” Graham (R-S.C.) said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “that one electoral vote could be the difference between [Kamala] Harris being president and not, and she’s a disaster for Nebraska and the world.”

On Wednesday, five Nebraska Republican members of Congress wrote to Governor Jim Pillen and Speaker of the Legislature John Arch to push for the change. They said: "We need a Pres

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) took a trip to the Cornhusker state last week intending to secure one more possible electoral vote for former President Trump — through a crunch-time upheaval of Nebraska's vote allocation system.