Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasson conservative who he rebuked political tribalism and stood out as a a longtime critic President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer.
Sasse, 53, made the announcement on social media, saying he learned of the illness last week and is “now marching to the beat of a faster drummer.”
“This is a hard one to write, but since a lot of you have had an inkling, I’m going to go ahead,” Sasse wrote. “Last week I was diagnosed with stage four metastatic pancreatic cancer and I am going to die.
Sasse was first elected to the Senate in 2014. He comfortably won re-election in 2020 after fending off a pro-Trump primary challenge. Sasse drew the ire of GOP activists vocal criticism about Trump’s character and policies, including questioning his moral values and claims that he has befriended hostile foreign leaders.
Sasse was one of them seven Republican senators vote and convince the former president of ” inciting rebellion “after the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. expanded his criticism to party loyalists who blindly worship one man and refused to bend the knee for his refusal.
Huh resigned from the Senate in 2023 to serve as the 13th president of the University of Florida after a contentious approval process. Huh he left that post the following year after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy.
Sasse, who holds degrees from Harvard, St. John’s College and Yale, served as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush. Before running for the Senate, he served as president of Midland University, a small Christian university in eastern Nebraska.
Sasse and his wife have three children.
“I’m not going down without a fight. One part of God’s grace is found in the astounding advances science has made in the last few years in immunotherapy and more,” Sasse wrote. “Death and dying are not the same thing – the process of dying is still something to be experienced.”
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