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Federal candidate · 2025–2026 cycle

Brinker Harding

Party
Republican
Running for
U.S. House · Nebraska District 2
Filing address
Omaha, NE (city and state on the FEC filing)
FEC filing name
HARDING, BRINKER
Next election
Primary May 12, 2026 · General November 3, 2026 (Wikipedia, checked October 22, 2026; confirm with your state election office)
Map of Nebraska with the 2026 district highlighted

Nebraska, District 2

FEC page

RepublicanU.S. House · Nebraska District 2Open seatGeneral-election nominee

FEC candidate ID H6NE02208 · Principal campaign committee: BRINKER HARDING FOR CONGRESS

Total raised$2,850,577.02
Total spent$2,537,204.17
Cash on hand$313,372.85
Debts owed by the campaign$0.00
Loans from the candidate$0.00

2025–2026 cycle totals through October 14, 2026, from the FEC’s candidate summary file. This is a dated snapshot, not live reporting; the FEC’s page for this candidate is the official source.

Where the money comes from

Individual contributions: $1,582,589.96PACs and other committees: $494,000.00Party committees: $10,000.00Candidate’s own money (contributions and loans): $3,500.00Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $759,663.72Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $823.34
  • Individual contributions$1,582,589.9656%
  • PACs and other committees$494,000.0017%
  • Party committees$10,000.000%
  • Candidate’s own money (contributions and loans)$3,500.000%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$759,663.7227%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$823.340%

Self-funding: $3,500.00 (0% of money raised): $3,500.00 given and $0.00 lent by the candidate.

Individual money

  • Contributions of $200 or less (small-dollar, including unitemized)$92,958.885%
  • Contributions over $200$1,636,771.4395%
  • Itemized from inside Nebraska$1,129,084.9969%
  • Itemized from other states$513,928.2131%

Top out-of-state sources of itemized individual money: Florida $112,489.26 · Texas $78,069.18 · District of Columbia $52,000.00 · Illinois $35,177.78 · New York $31,840.47. States with fewer than 10 contributions are not listed.

FEC-computed totals by contribution size and state, retrieved October 22, 2026. No individual contributor is named.

Raised and spent over time

$1.1M$0 OCTOBER QUARTERLY: raised $561,527.90OCTOBER QUARTERLY: spent $123,697.64YEAR-END: raised $315,400.79YEAR-END: spent $209,234.60APRIL QUARTERLY: raised $359,185.50APRIL QUARTERLY: spent $166,009.85PRE-PRIMARY: raised $34,303.55PRE-PRIMARY: spent $122,789.73JULY QUARTERLY: raised $621,353.39JULY QUARTERLY: spent $221,416.61OCTOBER QUARTERLY: raised $625,435.70OCTOBER QUARTERLY: spent $1,093,644.112025-092025-122026-032026-042026-062026-09

Raised per report Spent per report Cash on hand

PAC and committee contributors

79 committees reported giving $286,700.00 to this candidate, as filed by the giving committees through October 18, 2026. Timing differs from the campaign’s own reports, so this list may not match the totals above.

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Outside spending

  • Independent expenditures supporting Brinker Harding$0.00
  • Independent expenditures opposing Brinker Harding$1,383,946.03

FEC totals for the 2026 cycle, including groups that are not political committees, retrieved October 24, 2026.

Independent expenditures by committees that are not part of the campaign, as reported by those committees. This money is spent separately, not given to the candidate.

The race

Nebraska U.S. House, District 2, 2026 · 12 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
Brinker Harding (R)$2,850,577.02$313,372.852026-10-14
Denise Powell (D)$5,093,103.99$480,473.262026-10-14
Donald J Bacon (R)$1,502,945.80$372,311.072026-09-30
John Cavanaugh (D)$1,368,619.20$11,846.212026-09-30
Kishla Askins (D)$901,522.43$0.002026-06-30
James Leuschen (D)$393,803.69$118,337.772026-09-30
Brett Lindstrom (R)$375,098.51$0.002026-07-15
Crystal Rhoades (D)$182,791.25$112.002026-05-31
Mark Edmund Johnston (D)$10,146.58$0.002026-03-31
Melanie Williams (D)$2,419.00$679.002026-04-22

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

Recent polls

PollsterDatesSampleMargin of errorResults
National Public AffairsOctober 2–5, 2026800 (LV)± 5.0%Brinker Harding 38% · Denise Powell 50%
SurveyUSASeptember 8–13, 2026182 (LV)± 12.2%Brinker Harding 42% · Denise Powell 46%

Ratings and polls as listed on Wikipedia: 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska (retrieved October 22, 2026), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. TerraCivic does not rate races or compute its own average.

Sources and updates

  • Money: FEC bulk data (candidate summary, committee master, committee-to-candidate contributions), retrieved October 23, 2026. FEC candidate page · Principal campaign committee: BRINKER HARDING FOR CONGRESS.
  • Polling, ratings and candidate status: Wikipedia, retrieved October 22, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Status shown above comes from the race’s Wikipedia page.

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