SAN ANTONIO (AP) — President Donald Trump, facing protesters and a poor political climate, fought to rally Texas voters behind Senate candidate Ken Paxton on Wednesday night in a bid to stave off sweeping Democratic victories in the nation's most populous red state.

But Trump's remarks were not focused solely on Paxton.

As an Army veteran who served as an emergency room medic in Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, Omaha resident Katy Eilers will have veterans’ care at the top of her priority list as she casts her vote this November for a new U.S. House representative for Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District.

“What I care about is who's gonna listen to me, whether they're in my party or not,” she said.

Months before Gov. Jim Pillen recommended her for a $2.5 million no-bid consulting contract that Nebraska’s auditor later said “smacks of favoritism,” Julie Bushell was lobbying state officials for another deal.

She seemed poised to get it, despite skepticism from the state’s top environmental administrator. In emails obtained by the Flatwater Free Press, he called the technology she was selling “developing and aspiring at best.”

That warning, sent to Pillen’s chief of staff, wasn’t shared with the lawmaker advocating for the money.