Trump voters abandon GOP senator over claims dad bought his seat: ‘We’re not for sale’

A Republican senator with a family fortune is losing Trump voters in his own deep-red state to a blue-collar challenger.Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE), worth more than $200 million, faces a stiff test from independent Dan Osborn, an industrial mechanic who has turned the senator's inherited wealth into the centerpiece of his campaign, The New York Times reported Thursday.Ricketts is an heir to the TD Ameritrade fortune built by his father, Joe Ricketts. Osborn's ads and social media posts paint the senator as a pampered rich kid whose dad bought him his seat in Washington. Osborn, by contrast, reported making about $108,000 last year at a heating and air conditioning company."Nebraska has to make this decision and tell the rest of the country we're not for sale," Osborn said after a town hall in Tekamah earlier this month.That message is landing with some voters who backed President Donald Trump. Sean Dell,...