Democrat-backed Nebraska Senate hopeful Dan Osborn has quietly scrubbed every single reference to abortion from his campaign website, apparently hoping that voters in one of the reddest states in America have the memory span of a goldfish. Spoiler: they don't.
Here's the beautiful part. He deleted the word, but he kept the money. You really can't make this stuff up.
According to a report from the Free Beacon's Andrew Kerr, Osborn's policy platform now contains zero mentions of the word "abortion." Not one. Vanished. As if his positions on the issue just evaporated overnight like morning dew on a cornfield. But as recently as March 31, his website explicitly stated that he opposes "extreme national measures to ban abortion" and argued that the "federal government isn't capable of resolving the issue of abortion."
So what changed between March and now? Did Dan have a come-to-Jesus moment on the sanctity of life? Did he suddenly realize that maybe — just maybe — Nebraska voters who went for Trump by 19 points might not appreciate a Senate candidate bankrolled by the abortion industry?
Nope. He just thought he could scrub the website and nobody would notice.
But the receipts don't lie. Osborn's 2026 campaign has accepted $5,000 from Naomi Aberly, the wealthy former board chair of Planned Parenthood. Aberly's most recent contribution came in late April — weeks after Osborn was apparently already in the process of pretending he never had an abortion stance to begin with.
Let's do the math here. You take $5,000 from the former board chair of Planned Parenthood, you run with the endorsement of the Nebraska Democratic Party, and then you delete the word "abortion" from your website and expect people to believe you're some kind of common-sense independent? That's not moderate positioning. That's a con job.
Osborn is running as an "independent" to unseat Republican Senator Pete Ricketts in deep-red Nebraska. The independent label is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. It's the political equivalent of putting a fake mustache on a Democrat and hoping nobody recognizes him at the party.
This is the same playbook we've seen a dozen times. Run as an independent in a state where the Democrat brand is toxic. Hide your actual positions. Cash checks from every liberal interest group in America. And pray that the local media is too lazy or too sympathetic to connect the dots.
The Free Beacon connected them anyway.
Nebraska voters aren't stupid. They can see a candidate who says one thing on his website in March, deletes it by June, and deposits Planned Parenthood money the whole time. That's not evolution. That's not a candidate "refining his message." That's a guy who thinks you're too dumb to use the Wayback Machine.
Dan Osborn can scrub every word off his website if he wants. He can redesign the whole thing in red, white, and blue with an eagle on every page. But as long as Naomi Aberly's $5,000 is sitting in his campaign account, we know exactly where he stands — and so does Nebraska.