The race was still too close to call early Wednesday morning with election officials determining that Republican challenger Don Bacon held a slight edge over incumbent Democratic Rep. Brad Ashford with only about 70 percent of the vote counted.
Under Nebraska law, a recount is triggered when the vote margin between candidates is 1 percent or less of the winner's vote total.
Ashford, is a former state lawmaker from Omaha who has touted himself as a champion of bipartisanship in a gridlocked Congress. Bacon, a retired Air Force brigadier general, has painted himself as a Washington outsider.
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