Originally published at: Indiana Republicans Who Wouldn’t Cave to Trump Pressure See Sweeping Losses in Primaries
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s redistricting failure in Indiana, he vowed political retribution against Republican state senators who refused to cave to his pressure to gerrymander maps in their state. The results of Tuesday’s primaries in Indiana show Indiana voters may still be influenced by Trump’s rhetoric and his broader campaign to gerrymander…
It sucks that Republican voters still seem to embrace Trump’s awfulness in full.
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It does indeed. Note though that these are primary voters who tend to be hard-core. I’m curious to learn whether any of these seats are in competitive districts, such that the hard-core Trumpies might have worse prospects in the general.
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Disgusting. I live in Indiana and this is causing hard feelings in the GOP. There are the traditional Republicans like Mitch Daniels and then there are the Trumpys. Tonight the Trumpys got their revenge. How dare those 8 people do what they thought was the right thing.
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They can revel in their misery and racism.
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Oh well, those guys can go masturbate in the YMCA toilet stall.
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We’ll see, but it sounds to me like these loons are doomed in the general.
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Let’s hope that the Republicans who voted for the losers either vote Democratic in November or don’t vote.
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Indiana has been a lost cause for quite a while, but it will be interesting to see how things turn out in Iowa. But, I’m curious, did Mike Pence have anything to say about this in advance of the Republican primaries?
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A cult remains a cult despite reality based evidence.
One of the distinguishing features of a cult.
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MAGAts remain MAGAts. It doesn’t matter what he does or says, so long as FauxSnooze tells everyone he’s right, they will continue to vote this way.
80-year-old state Sen. Jim Buck was unseated by Tipton County Commission member Tracey Powell after serving in the Legislature since 1994.
Buck, who was facing his first primary since joining the state Senate in 2008, had the support of Mike Pence, the former vice president and Indiana governor.
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The Democrats have candidates who will be running in all 9 districts. I tried comparing number of R vs D who turned out, but it varied wildly who had the higher turnout.
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Democrats kept control of the Michigan state senate, with support much stronger than the 1% Kamala Harris won the area by.
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Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Trumpers are more apt to lose in a blue wave election.
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What will it take to cause these folks to think?
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Ya, but it will probably be unproductive…
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The MAGA cult, while diminishing, still has pockets of ardent supporters. More work at de-infestation is needed. Let’s get to work!
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That was my first question as well. I know that Indiana skews significantly Republican so they probably have a reasonable chance of getting elected, but it’ll be interesting to see if Trump’s coattails are as effective come the general election.
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Actually that will help when they try to rewrite history after their massive losses in November.
No St. Peter’s denials for them.
Let’s be clear about something with regard to Ohio. Yes, we were gerrymandered into the ongoing mess after the 2020 Census, but this re-gerrymandered was required under the re-districting “reform” we passed in 2017. The state’s officers involved in redistricting after 2020 (Governor, Sec’ty of State, State Auditor) abjectly failed in their duty and behaved in a completely partisan Republican fashion. Neither Democrat involved in the redistricting commission would vote for the messes the commission approved. Since the map failed to have bipartisan support, the law required the maps to be redrawn after the 2024 elections.
We got a worse map. One of the Democrats involved voted for the maps, on the grounds that the map wasn’t as bad as it could have been.
We need more Democrats and we need better Democrats. (I understand that politics is an art of the possible, but sometimes you must stand on principle.)
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Here’s another thing to consider: Indiana doesn’t record party affiliation. It’s like Ohio in that you can ask for any party’s primary ballot. I have not seen how ballot demand broke out for yesterday’s election. It’s possible that only the hardest core Morons Are Governing America membership voted in this primary–people who are fed up with the iDJiT’s nonsense decided to vote in another party’s primary in an effort to have a palatable candidate on the ballot in November.
We can’t conclude anything about whether the Morons Are Governing America gang had a good night until we see how the ballot demand came out.
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