The Omaha World Herald published leaked audio on October 6 in which Nebraska Senate independent Dan Osborn says rural Nebraskans' lives suck and they vote for Donald Trump to feel like winners. Osborn has apologized, and he says about 70 people came to a Red Cloud town hall where residents were not deeply offended. Ricketts has separately said Osborn told Nebraska's Black and Latino Democrat caucus the border wall is racist, and Trump is set to rally in Grand Island with Ricketts and the governor. The race turns on whether the apology holds rural support against a presidential visit.