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U.S. House · Updated Oct 9

Nebraska's 2nd District

Denise Powell win chance

86%

Typical margin: Powell by 8

Democrat

Denise Powell 86%Brinker Harding 14%

Who's running

Denise PowellDemocrat
Brinker HardingRepublican

The numbers behind it

Cook Political ReportAs of Sep 23, 2026Lean D
Money raisedFEC, through Jun 30, 2026Powell $2.7MHarding $2.0M
Campaign money

Denise Powell

Raised $2.7M · $997K cash on hand · through Jun 30, 2026 · FEC filing ↗

Brinker Harding

Raised $2.0M · $1.1M cash on hand · through Jun 30, 2026 · FEC filing ↗

Our model counts the money gap as worth 0.1 points to Denise Powell. Even a 10× gap is worth at most 1.5.

Other filers in this race raised $1.7M in total.

Candidates' own committees only, from fec.gov. Third-quarter reports are due Oct 15.

How the numbers moved
  1. Sep 23Cook Political Report: Lean DCook Political Report
  2. Jun 30Brinker Harding had raised $2.0MFEC filing
  3. Jun 30Denise Powell had raised $2.7MFEC filing
How we got this number

We blend the polling average (when there is one) with the race's fundamentals: past results, incumbency, the national mood and the money. Then we play the election out 40,000 times, with polling misses that move every race together, and count how often each side wins.

90% of the model's 40,000 simulated elections land between R+4.3 and D+20.2.

No public polls yet, so this forecast rests on the fundamentals alone, with a wider range.

Our method ›