Warren Buffett has yet to weigh in on the 2024 campaign, even as an electoral battle rages in the Oracle of Omaha’s backyard that could put either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump over the top. Buffett’s silence is unusual, though, since he has been a vocal supporter of Democrats in previous contests—and so, too, is the set of circumstances that have made Omaha the potential deciding factor in choosing the next U.S. president.
While Omaha is located in Nebraska, a deeply red state that is not considered a battleground in the same way as Pennsylvania or Georgia, one pocket of it is very much in play. That’s because of a political quirk that means the Cornhusker State does not follow the vast majority of other states (Maine is the only other exception) in awarding all of its electoral college votes with a winner-take-all approach.
