Governor

Supports licensing Nebraska farmers to grow medical cannabis and creating an industrial hemp industry as a rotational crop.

Supports processing more of what Nebraska grows within the state.

Cites the ban on lab-grown meat and a proposal for farmers to own their agricultural data; supports protecting the aquifer and expanding agricultural trade.

Supports targeting tax relief to farmers and ranchers and better preparedness for foreign animal diseases.

Would have the state auditor review companies receiving ImagiNE Nebraska tax incentives and recapture credits from those that miss job requirements.

Would hold state budget growth to about 2.5% a year and says growth, not new taxes, should fund tax relief; supports recruiting former Nebraskans and targeted industries.

Says he would end tax incentives for large technology data centers, lower property insurance rates and stop hedge funds from buying homes.

Proposes a ban on price gouging, a temporary gas tax holiday and a school-supply sales tax holiday, and would end state income tax on tips and overtime.

Supports raising income taxes one or two points on the top earners for a property tax reduction fund; opposes broadly taxing services but would tax some discretionary consumer services.

Proposes rolling multi-year averages for property valuations, valuing farmland mainly on its productive income, and lowering the maximum school operating levy from $1.05 to 50 cents over time.

Supports hard caps on local government spending and limits on property valuation growth; has sought to repeal sales tax exemptions and apply sales tax to more goods and services to fund property tax relief.

Proposes a universal homestead exemption on the first $100,000 of a home's value and a cap on annual valuation increases; says she would cut property taxes without raising sales taxes and opposes sales tax changes that raise consumer costs.

Supports coordinating K-12 schools, community colleges, apprenticeships and employers as one workforce pipeline.

Supported the bell-to-bell school cellphone ban and opting in to the federal scholarship tax credit; wants every third grader reading at grade level and K-12 funding reform.

Supports strong schools and earlier reading interventions for young students.

Supports a constitutional amendment modeled on Montana's plan to limit corporate and special-interest spending in elections.

Supports awarding all of Nebraska's electoral votes to the statewide winner and changes to the ballot petition process.

Supports restricting no-bid contracts to declared emergencies, a code of ethics for elected officials, and implementing ballot measures as voters approved them.

Supports a pause on new data center permits and environmental impact studies of data centers, and ending their tax incentives.

Supports protecting public power and expanding the electrical grid before demand outruns it.

Supports a statewide strategy to track and monitor new data center developments.

Supports full implementation of the 2024 voter-approved medical cannabis initiatives and accepting federal funds the state has turned down.

Pledges to get the voter-approved medical cannabis program running faster, and says government should not tell people how to take care of their own health.

Describes himself as '100% pro-life'; his platform pledges to 'protect life.'

Cites passage of constitutional carry (carrying concealed handguns without a permit) as part of his record.

Supports building housing near existing jobs and infrastructure.

Partnered with ICE in 2025 to convert a state facility in McCook into an immigration detention site, and says he would eliminate state taxpayer-funded benefits for people in the country illegally.

Supports finishing rural broadband deployment.