{"id":1682186,"date":"2022-10-10T17:52:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T21:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682186"},"modified":"2022-10-10T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T21:53:09","slug":"sen-lindsey-graham-wants-nebraska-governor-to-take-over-senate-seat-left-vacant-by-sasse-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-lindsey-graham-wants-nebraska-governor-to-take-over-senate-seat-left-vacant-by-sasse-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Lindsey Graham Wants Nebraska Governor to Take Over Senate Seat Left Vacant by Sasse Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-lindsey-graham-wants-nebraska-governor-to-take-over-senate-seat-left-vacant-by-sasse-resignation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682186&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is pushing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nebraska\">Nebraska<\/a> Gov. Pete Ricketts to fill the vacant seat left by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), who recently announced his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Sasse confirmed on Oct. 6 that he will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/ben-sasse-responds-after-reports-hes-set-to-resign-from-senate_4780342.html\">retire early from the Senate<\/a>\u00a0and will likely take a position as president of the University of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Graham wants Ricketts to take Sasse\u2019s place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-senate\">Senate<\/a>\u2014a position to which Ricketts could theoretically appoint himself.\u00a0Under Nebraska law, the governor appoints a new senator if a vacancy arises in the middle of a term.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ricketts has been clear that he does not intend to appoint himself, though he did still leave open the prospect of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/nebraska-governor-says-he-could-replace-sen-sasse-if-certain-scenario-unfolds_4783702.html\"> joining the U.S. Senate<\/a>\u00a0when his term is over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I choose to pursue the appointment, I will leave the appointment decision to the next governor and will follow the process established for all interested candidates,\u201d Ricketts said. \u201cIt is the honor of a lifetime to serve as the governor of Nebraska. It is the greatest job in the world, and it will remain my number one focus for the remainder of my term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ricketts\u2019s second and final term expires in early 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Ricketts \u201cmay be moving to Washington for a few years,\u201d Graham told a gathered crowd during a stop in Nebraska, the Cornhusker State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the Ricketts family,\u201d Graham said, \u201cyou\u2019re the American dream, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t buy his dad\u2019s book, but I don\u2019t buy anybody\u2019s book, don\u2019t take it personal,\u201d Graham joked, referencing a book by Ricketts\u2019s father and TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts. \u201cBut he told me his story, his father\u2019s story, and his family\u2019s story, and that\u2019s a story that could only happen in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Pete, I hope you\u2019ll think about it, sit down with your family and pray on it, and if that opportunity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is pushing for Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts to fill the vacant seat left by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), who recently announced his retirement. Sasse confirmed on Oct. 6 that he will retire early from the Senate\u00a0and will likely take a position as president of the University of Florida. Now, Graham wants [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}