Chip Maxwell (born August 10, 1962) is an American politician and

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talk radio host from the state of

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. A member of the Republican Party, Maxwell served in the unicameral

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from 2001 to 2005 and on the Douglas County

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from 2005 to 2009. He stated that he would run in the Republican Party primary election for the U.S.

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in the 2016 Election. Maxwell was defeated in the 2016 Republican primary by

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, 66%–34%, and in 2017 became the host of the "Omaha's Morning Answer" radio show on The Answer/ KOTK.

Career

Maxwell earned his BA in

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from

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, his MA in

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from the

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, and his JD from the

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. In 2000 when Democratic State Senator Shelley Kiel ran for

in the

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, Maxwell ran to succeed her. In the technically nonpartisan race to succeed her, he defeated fellow Republican J. Scott Knudsen by 4,663 votes (54.83%) to 3,751 (44.11%). He declined to run for re-election in 2004, instead running for the District 5 seat on the Douglas County

. He defeated Democrat John T. Green by 14,084 votes (52.67%) to 12,600 (47.12%). He was unseated by Democrat Marc Kraft, a former

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lor by 13,882 votes (49.04%) to 11,925 (42.13%). In 2009, Maxwell ran for the Omaha City Council, losing to Democrat Chris Jerram by 4,766 votes (52.39%) to 4,247 (46.69%). He considered running in the Republican

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for the House of Representatives in the 2nd Congressional district against incumbent Republican

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as a

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challenger in the

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. After choosing not to run in the primary, he decided to run in the general election as an independent instead. He mounted an independent bid against Lee Terry and

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. Despite collecting enough signatures to make the ballot, Maxwell withdrew from the race on July 24, saying that he had been asked by high-profile Republicans not to run and didn't want to create a "permanent rift" in the district's Republican Party. However, he said that he planned to run against Terry in the Republican primary in 2016, and noted that "I think this thing's a toss-up, even with me out of it." Democratic nominee Brad Ashford defeated Terry in 2014, and Maxwell declared that he would run against Ashford in 2016.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Maxwell, Chip 1962 births Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences alumni Republican Party Nebraska state senators Politicians from Omaha, Nebraska University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni Tea Party movement activists 21st-century members of the Nebraska Legislature