Susie Buffett asked the Omaha Republican on September 2 to pull an ad using her father's image, saying it implies an endorsement he never gave. The ad stayed on the air until the following week. Harding's public statement never mentioned her request.
The Speaker of the House headlined a Harding campaign breakfast built around one small, temporary tax break from Trump's budget bill. The same bill could cost Nebraska up to $4 billion in Medicaid, and 18,000 fewer Nebraskans are getting food assistance than a year earlier.
Harding's pitch is that Congress has 'turned the public's trust into personal benefit' by trading stocks. For ten months he ignored the federal law requiring him to tell Nebraska voters what he owns — until Democrats referred him to the Justice Department.
Omaha's Republican congressional candidate joined the vice president's sombrero meme campaign during the 2025 shutdown. The woman who ran the LULAC council he asked to join in 2023 asked him to delete it and apologize. Six months later he told a voter guide that leaders who inflame division erode democracy.