RESULT: Omaha's Republican Mayor Jean Stothert just lost to her Democratic challenger John Ewing.
Stothert, who was running for a fourth term, resorted to anti-trans ads and messaging around who uses bathrooms in the final stretch of the campaign.
Ewing will be Omaha's first Black mayor.
John Ewing directly put down anti-trans attacks, calling them a "fake issue" rather than act mealy mouthed or adopt GOP framing like his mainstream Democratic peers did.
Meanwhile the DNC is still in bed with consultants who called Trump's "Kamala's for they/them" ad one of the best ads ever.
May 14, 2025 03:57But also, you're just not gonna be able to successfully paint a straight old black dude as being some sort of trans rights crusader lol
It was an effective ad for Trump. But the inability of Kamala to get more voters out wasn't because of that ad.
John Ewing's ad was excellent and effective. I hope others will use similar messages. They'd be braindead not to in municipal elections with opponents focued on toilets.
Actually that ad was not the one that helped Trump when they did testing, it was the one with the clip of Kamala saying she'd do nothing differently from Joe Biden
Yeah. That killed the whole point of replacing Biden and at the same time communicated that Kamala was a follower, not a leader. Trump pouncing on that statement definitely kept a lot of potential voters home.
Omg what an ad
