TFG came to Nebraska to defend a fellow sex offender
Allegations of sexual misconduct by eight women against Nebraska Republican Charles Herbster, and former President Donald Trump's defense of him, have brought national attention to the candidate's quest for the state's governorship in Tuesday's primary.
But like many of the more than 50 voters CNN spoke with here, most of whom are Republicans, 59-year-old Lisa Ketcham said she has "mixed" feelings about the allegations, amid fierce pushback from the businessman and farmer/rancher, who has denied them. Ketcham, a Republican from Omaha, said the allegations raised concerns for her but neither the controversy nor Trump's endorsement would be the driving factors when she casts her ballot.
The Nebraska Examiner's mid-April accounts of seven women who said they were groped by Herbster at political events or beauty pageants, and an additional woman who accused him of kissing her forcibly, injected a jolt of uncertainty into the GOP primary to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts. The Examiner said that all eight accounts were corroborated either by witnesses or people who spoke to the women about what happened immediately afterward.
It's already been an unpredictable three-way race in this heavily Republican state between Herbster; hog farmer and University of Nebraska Board of Regents member Jim Pillen, who has Ricketts' support; and state Sen. Brett Lindstrom. And earlier this month, Trump -- whose endorsement is widely sought in GOP primaries -- traveled to Nebraska to shore up Herbster at a rally where he dismissed the women's accounts.
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