Hopefully senators starring in the failure theater production of ‘debating’ the SAVE America Act heard Indiana’s message loud and clear.
Indiana conservatives just sent a message to RINOs everywhere: FAFO. These voters are mad as hell and they’re not going to vote for spineless Republicans anymore.
Hopefully GOP senators performing in the failure theater production of “debating” the SAVE America Act heard Indiana’s message loud and clear.
Most of the Republican Indiana state Senate candidates endorsed by President Donald Trump won primary races Tuesday against incumbents who voted with Democrats to stop a congressional redistricting bill. As of late Tuesday evening, The New York Times election results showed challengers picked up at least five of the seven state Senate seats targeted by Trump and allied conservatives groups. Republican primary voters rejected politicians standing on “fairness” principles while Democrats employ every weapon in their political arsenal to wrest back control of the U.S. House.
Indiana Sen. Jim Banks helped drive the campaign to oust the incumbents who helped kill a mid-decade redrawing of the red state’s congressional maps. The redistricting plan, urged by Trump, would have given Republicans two additional seats in a House of Representatives with a razor-thin GOP majority.
“Everyone in Indiana politics should have learned an important lesson today: President Trump is the single most popular Republican among Hoosier voters,” Banks said in a statement. “Indiana is a conservative state, and we deserve conservatives in our State Senate who have a pulse on Republican voters.”
Trump and his political action committee allies are ready to spend to jettison Republicans who don’t see the next two election cycles as existential battles. And they have a lot of money to take on RINOs and leftists heading into the midterms.
The Indiana Senate Republican primaries generated $13.5 million in ad spending, a 4,736 percent increase from the last cycle, according to ad tracker AdImpact. The brunt of the spending poured in from Trump-allied groups targeting the incumbents.