Democrat hoping to flip Nebraska House seat pushing for action on affordability
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[0:00] Welcome back to the Takeout. One of the
[0:02] competitive congressional races
[0:04] Democrats are eyeing as a potential flip
[0:06] is Nebraska's second congressional
[0:07] district currently held by Republican
[0:09] Congressman Don Bacon. But he's not
[0:10] seeking re-election. The seat is known
[0:13] as Nebraska's blue dot, home to the
[0:15] heavily Democratic city of Omaha and
[0:18] surrounded, as you might suspect, by a
[0:20] lot of deeply red Republican counties.
[0:22] Joining me now, the Democratic nominee
[0:24] for Nebraska's second congressional
[0:25] district, Denise Pal. Denise, it's good
[0:27] to have you on the program. So, we're at
[0:29] the stage of a campaign where the party
[0:31] that has good atmospherics around it, a
[0:33] sense of momentum, begins to panic and
[0:35] say to itself, "Oh my god, we're
[0:37] overconfident. It's all going to fall
[0:39] apart. All the promising stuff, all the
[0:42] great headlines, we're in mi