Independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn announced a new hybrid political action committee for working-class candidates Monday following his narrow loss to Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE).
Osborn, a steamfitter by trade, is fresh from his senate campaign as an independent candidate. Now, with his experience as a former union president and Navy veteran, he’s created a part-PAC, part-strike fund to help candidates and union workers.
“Our campaign showed that candidates who are actually from the working class can unite the working class to change our politics,” Osborn wrote Monday on X. “We need a hell of a lot more working class people running for office, and that’s why we’re launching @WrknClassHeroes.”
“Less than 2% of our elected leaders are from the working class,” the PAC’s website reads. “Special interests and billionaires own our politicians. That’s why both parties have lost touch with regular people.”
Fellow independent Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT) said the Democratic Party, which he caucuses with, “abandoned the working class” in the days following the Nov. 5 election, in which the Republican Party won the White House along with the majorities in the Senate and House.
Osborn refused to align himself with Democrats, who didn’t run a candidate in the Nebraska Senate race themselves. The party ran a similar strategy in Utah in 2022, not running its own candidate but successfully endorsing independent candidate Evan McMullin.
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In both races, these independents were up against incumbents and came closer than the Democratic candidates have in recent memory.
Osborn’s PAC’s website implies that it will prioritize “patriots who have served their country” and will organize “working-class voters to mobilize for working-class issues.” It also solicits nominations for candidates.