Allegedly unmatched, the Republican mayor of the largest city of Nebraska used Anti-LGBTQ+ Playbook GOP in his re-election application. And lost!
John Yuing pumped his fist after the results are announced at the Electoral Evening for Ying for the Mayor of Omahi in the Hilton city center in Amakh, the state of heaven, Tuesday, May 13, 2025.
(Chris Square / Omaha World Herald via AP)
Omaha Mayor Jean StoerThe Republican, who is looking for refurbishment in one of the few strongholds of the big city, was to be invincible. She won her application for re-election in 2021 for the third term with almost two-thirds of the vote, and her company in the company of 2025 was full of money from corporate leaders and billionaire donors. But St. Encountered evidence that Democrats in the largest city of Nebraska and across the country Highly motivated Voting in the odd elections of 2025 and signals that the local campaign of Mary Demoli candidate John W. Juing Jr. has survived, Statert and her supporters seized the fact that GOP strategists continue to imagine the Victory Strategy: Transfobia.
With a company based on the fact that the Senator of Nebraska Megan Hunt described as “Trans Hate and Discrimination,” Stotrt’s supporters were delivered “Last minute the blitz of Republican Anti-Transgender Propaganda“The latest television advertising from the mayor’s camp claimed:” Juing stands with radicals who want to allow boys in sports girls “, while sending out of the Committee on Political Actions on Starters Returned the National GOP conversations and suggested that Juing wants to” go. “
But guess what? The GoP strategy failed. Massively. What was widely described as the main disorder – the one that the Democrats said as a reliable sign that they can make progress in the Red States when frustrated with Trump and Musk –Juing scored a wide victory 56-44 Above the current one. Now he will become the first Black Mayor of Omarah.
Ying’s decisive victory sent a powerful signal about the new 2025 policy – and the restrictions of the GoP fanatics. “We need to understand this as a victory against trans-nationality and discrimination,” said Senator Hunt, who led the fight against the anti-Trans measures in Nebraska’s legislative body. “Regular Americans do not respond or call for panic. Enough. We’re talking about the future.”
As a result, amaji, a heart in which the Republicans have historically been able to hold their own political fee, resist the story of GoP strategists that continue to build their companies around the rough fight messages.
Television ads and newsletters similar to those focused on Juing were used by Republicans and their conservative allies in racing across the country in 2024, and became Standard attack lines On the progressives working in guerrilla and technically non -partisan competitions (such as the Omaha race) in 2025. But Stocert was particularly leaning against them as issues relevant to the municipal competition, saying“The mayor is absolutely 100% involved in public bathrooms in our public spaces, public centers, golf sites, parks and day camps.”
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Juing, Deputy Chief of Police, Deputy Minister of Baptist Church of Salem, and The chosen treasurer From the surrounding district Douglas, she opposed the focus of Statert on this issue, saying: “Nobody has ever caused this issue. So I believe that this is a resolved issue of Jean Statert and the Republican Party.”
But Juing and his supporters did not only call on the precinct disease. The Democrat actively campaigned for the support of LGBTQ+voters, appearing this month in event Sponsors of the Democrats of Nebraska Stonewall at the Flixx Lounge & Cabaret city bar. And dynamic Democratic Party NebraskaLeaded by Jane Cles, ally Senator Vermont Bernie Sanders, who was recently elected President of the State Democratic Committees Association, directly and effectively opposed the attacks on Juing, “while the mayor St. Directors. On real issues that affect people’s pockets – endless potholes, new economic development and housing, which will help the amakhans, not the great donors of Jean. “
Democratic message was strengthened on social media with the help of a marine image of the mayor, which pic under the door of the bathroom, in which the marks are presented“Gin focused on the sweat. John focused on potholes.”
The contrast turned out to be powerful. Juing won a large in the city, which is at the heart of Congress, which was narrowly conducted by US Republican representative Don Bacon. Ken Martin, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, noted after the results of the amah were announced: “From the coast to the coast, from the blue to the purple to even the Red States, the Democrats are mostly superior to the Republicans in almost every election held this year” and announced: “After today.
Everything is true. Also true was Observing the clibe The fact that the campaign to combat the Republican and its allies successfully counted “creative graphics and a simple message (the Democrats of Nebraska), which was used to control the point of home that Dems focused on issues that care about families and that GOP has no connection.”
