Most likely, yes, but it does also depend on just how much damage the GOPniks manage to do to themselves with all those threatened revenge primaries between now and then.
If they nominate a couple of Todd Akin types (you remember, the guy back in 2012 who claimed that “legitimate” rape would not result in pregnancy), who knows.
Inertia, billionaire interference, and the natural lack of knowledge and understanding of MAGAts.
As a long time Hoosier, I’m glad I was wrong about this one. I thought for sure we’d do the wrong thing because of course we do. I gotta believe part of the calculus is that they know this will be a wave election and they run the risk of losing more than the two seats they would gain.
That is a lot of people to primary. Won’t happen.
“I will partner with the incredibly powerful MAGA Grassroots Republicans” - mm yah. I think a lot of those guys are smelling the big stink and they will be rethinking their money. They were already starting to wobble with Trump action on the Fed. ADP report, which is a goode substitute to the Fed’s unavailable data did not look beautiful.
I can’t decide if DonOLD’s comeuppance needs to be quick or slow. I guess I’ll have to flip a coin.
I think they were pissed at being threatened. Same thing happened to Pence and he did not back down either.
It was also the insane and heavy handed bs coming from Trump and his minions. Swatting people, threatening people, etc.
I’d like to do everything I can to encourage them to try, though. Circular firing squads for everyone!
I am not so sure about that. I have lived in Indiana for a long time, and I have heard a lot of people talking about how they hated this whole thing, the threats, the craziness of it. I think that threatening to kill the grandson of one of those Republicans had a lot to do with it. They have almost every seat as it is. It was not worth it to go along with that freakshow.
And hot off the headlines, here’s another data point:
(The vote was brought to the floor by a discharge petition, so no thanks to Speaker Feckless Insurrection Johnson, but 20 GOPniks crossed over to support it.)
“You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?”
– J. T. Baptist
A perfectly reasonable political calculus but even if their allegiance to Trump and MAGA was mostly passive, a matter of survival, there is little reason to give them much credit for that: they not only survived they thrived while a lot of bad things happened to their fellow citizens during the interim.
Not to overly belabor the point but, as Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “[H]e who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it”, and until now the Indiana Republicans mostly did cooperate. Personally I rather expect they will continue to do so to a significant degree.
Somebody wrap Donny’s swollen ankles because that boy’s a lame duck.
It’s rare, but some days I’m glad I’m color blind. I dig the descriptor Cardiac Red though, lol.
Does Mike Braun have any further political ambitions?
Victory over communism!
Not a matter I have any direct knowledge on, so how about some unfounded speculation? 
Braun served one term as a U.S. Senator, and then got elected gub’nor in 2024 instead of continuing in the Senate. That sounds to me like he is, or thinks he is, going places.
He’s been a loyal member of the cult:
He clearly sees his political future in slavish obesiance. Perhaps wearing a Braun shirt.
I never thought I’d say, “Thank god for Indiana Republicans!”
I wonder if Pence has been candid with his former colleagues about what a POS amoral moron trump is.
Yeah, right - because it’s been so well hidden until now! 
