There will be a major battle for control of the U.S. Senate in November

DEMs have a problem in Nebraska where they are trying to defeat REP Ben Sasse

https://hotair.com/archives/ed...w-sexual-harassment/

Chris Janicek must have seemed like a dream candidate for Nebraska Democrats hoping to unseat Ben Sasse. The openly gay moderate might have given them enough credibility on both wings of their party and among Cornhuskers to give a serious challenge to incumbent Republican Ben Sasse, whose occasional clashes with Trump might have left him a little vulnerable.

Instead, Nebraska Democrats have a nightmare on their hands. E-mails from Janicek have emerged that he sent to a woman on his campaign discussing whether to spend money on “getting her laid,” and that “it will probably take three guys” to accomplish it. Now they need him to quit in order to replace him:

The Nebraska Democratic Party called on its U.S. Senate nominee to drop out of the race Tuesday after he made sexually repugnant comments about a campaign staffer in a group text with her and other staffers.

The party said its state executive committee voted unanimously on Monday evening to withdraw all of its resources from Chris Janicek’s campaign. …

The text messages, which were obtained by The Associated Press, were from a group chat involving Janicek and five other people, including the female staffer. At one point, he wrote that he had argued with her and then asked whether the campaign should spend money on “getting her laid.”

“It will probably take three guys,” he wrote, before describing in graphic detail an imagined group sex scene involving the female staffer.

Unfortunately for the party, Janicek has already been nominated. He won a seven-person race for the ballot slot last month, and the party can’t remove him now that he’s been certified. A new nomination would first require Janicek to step aside, and he’d have to do so before September 11, when the state certifies the general-election ballot. That would force the party to hand-pick Janicek’s replacement, which would itself create all sorts of headaches for the party, but not as many as having these texts floating around in a general election.

Despite the state party’s request that he withdraw, Janicek told CNN that he “did not consider it ever.”

“I’d like to just move on with the campaign, but the Nebraska Democratic Party has taken it in another direction,” he said. …

Janicek, the party’s nominee running against Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse, told CNN that in late May he sent a text message to a group including himself, the female former staffer and four other campaign staffers. He characterized the message as “simply repeating what she had said earlier in the week, that she needed to get laid.”

“I’m an openly gay man running for senate against Ben Sasse, so it was not sexual harassment, it was something that had been discussed between her and a girlfriend,” Janicek said, later adding that he had overheard the staffer’s phone conversation at campaign headquarters.

Wow, so he's eavesdropping on calls between a staffer and one of her girlfriends?

At any rate, several other news ("news"?) stories are pointing out that he made a real splash before getting nominated by making a lot of noise about having no tolerance for the kinds of things Trump says. Nebraska's got a lot of pretty straightforward people (from what I've seen, anyway), but this may actually be a case of the Dems not being able to stand the hypocrisy of one of their own.

So why does he have a problem? Dems only care if a Republican does things like that.

Sasse may defeat himself with some of his own tone deaf and insensitive remarks. He better hope his opponent does more of the same.