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After a month and a half recess from the campaign trail, Democrat Kara Eastman is back.

Eastman — who tried to blaze a new path for Nebraska Democrats but ultimately fell 2 percentage points short on Nov. 6 — announced Thursday that she will seek a rematch against Republican Rep. Don Bacon in the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District.

Bacon noted that he has not yet been sworn in to his second term and questioned Eastman’s early announcement.

But Eastman, 47, said she announced her candidacy early in the interests of transparency and to quell rumors.

“I figured, well I’ll just let the voters, the district know what I’m going to do,” she said.

In a reprise of her argument from the 2018 cycle, Eastman painted Bacon as “extreme” and sought to tie the congressman to President Donald Trump. She also raised many of the same issues she focused on in 2018, particularly health care.