I will admit that I did not vote in yesterday's primary elections. Although I have now lived in Delaware County for almost five years, I still do feel I know enough to vote in local primary elections. But this is my sermon the Republican primaries.
I have a bias against Southerners who came to live in Indiana.
It is one I inherited. I believe that slavery imprinted on the white Southerner the desire to obey. No one in the slave-owning slave was free or wanted to be free - except the African-Americans.
Indiana let too many of the Southerners into the state to work in the now-vanished factories. That their descendants perpetuate their slavishness within our borders is proven by their obeying Trump's command to get rid of our state Senators voting against the Orange Fool's redistricting plan.
GOP incumbents fall to Trump-endorsed challengers in Indiana (Axios Indianapolis)
The eyes of the country were on Indiana last night.
And Indiana Republicans failed to show any spine.
Trump Is Happy. But So Are Dems. (The Bulwark)
In Republican primary elections across Indiana, Trump-backed challengers deposed five Republican state senators who had helped block his wished-for gerrymander of the state’s congressional districts. A sixth race was too close to call. And the incumbents who lost were conservative Republicans, albeit of a more traditional type.
The only real issue in the races was loyalty to Trump. As NBC News noted, in central Indiana’s District 41, for example, where Trump-backed candidate Michelle Davis challenged a 20-year incumbent, one ad from American Leadership PAC on behalf of Davis mentioned Trump’s name four times in fifteen seconds. Davis won, 59 percent to 41 percent.
So Trump is happy, putting up celebratory posts on Truth Social. He’ll be happier still if he succeeds ten days from now in knocking off incumbent Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) in the GOP primary, and then if Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) goes down to defeat three days later, on May 19. The first result seems likely, the second quite possible.
Key takeaways from Tuesday’s primary elections in Indiana, Ohio (The Hill)
“Big night for MAGA in Indiana,” Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) said in a post on the social platform X, as results were still coming in Tuesday. “Proud to have helped elect more conservative Republicans to the Indiana State Senate.”
The senator took a significant interest in helping to oust the state senators, and two groups affiliated with Banks reportedly spent several millions of dollars in the races.
Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith (R) told CNN that even three wins made a statement for Trump.
“It was really that battle between the old-school Republicans of the Mitch Daniels, Mike Pence, George Bush era, versus Donald Trump and the ‘America First’ era,” Beckwith told the network, nodding to two former Indiana governors and the former president. “And Indiana — at least the Republicans — are saying, we want to be the ‘America First’ party.”
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is pushing up gasoline prices while making America a fool on the world stage: What’s in the US’s 1-page proposal for Iran peace deal? (The Hill)
The restrictions have resulted in the price of oil increasing around the world, with gas prices stateside also rising. On Wednesday, the average price of a gallon of regular gas in the U.S. exceeded $4.50 for the first time since 2022, according to AAA.
Why does the deal Trump is now proposing sound so much like the Obama deal that was thrown away by Trump?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters Tuesday that if Tehran wants a “civilian nuclear program,” then it is free to pursue one.
“They could have that if that’s what they wanted, but they’re not acting like that’s what they wanted,” Rubio said in the White House briefing room. “They’re acting like they want a military nuclear program. That’s unacceptable.”
Under the memorandum of understanding, Iran would also agree to inspections by the United Nations on its nuclear program, while the U.S. would gradually lift sanctions and release billions in frozen Iranian funds, according to Axios.
Indiana Primary Results Prove It: The GOP Is Still a Trump Cult (The New Republic)
The good news is that the results of Indiana show that the Republican Party is really a cult of Trump—so Republican candidates will be reluctant to distance themselves from an increasingly unpopular president and therefore might lose winnable races this November and in two years.
The bad news, though, is that the results in Indiana show that the Republican Party is a cult of Trump—so Supreme Court justices, governors, state legislatures, congresspeople, and even rank-and-file GOP voters will keep falling in line with the whims of our wannabe dictator.
Trump-backed candidates romp to wins in Indiana Senate races (The Indiana Capital Chronicle)
Bray said Tuesday night that he would seek to remain as the Senate’s leader. He said the primary results showed the impact of the unheard-of $10 million-plus that national organizations spent on defeating the incumbent senators.
“The amount of money that was spent in Indiana is material, it matters, and that was very, very difficult to overcome,” Bray told the Indiana Capital Chronicle. “We worked really hard. Our candidates worked really hard to get their message out, but the voters spoke, and we’ll deal with that in the coming days and months.”
***
That unleashed a torrent of broadcast ad spending that reached $13.5 million for the primary campaigns — a nearly 5,000% jump from the roughly $250,000 spent in 2024 on state Senate races, the ad-tracking service AdImpact posted Tuesday.
All I can say about this analysis by the winner of one of these primaries, Jeff Ellington of Bloomfield, is what drugs are you on?
“I think President Trump does but, really, I think it is all about what the decisions of the voters want, and it shows they want change and they want small communities to be listened to,” Ellington said. “They want job creation, they want investment and they want their taxes lowered while making government more efficient.”
None of the defeated were for no investment, for raising taxes, or for expanding Indiana's government.
Besides showing a lack of principles to local government and self-respect, the failure of Indiana Republicans endangers the Republic.
Gerrymandering is poisonous enough, but now we are ignoring the Constitution. The Democrats have had to follow the Republican lead just to save themselves, and perhaps the Constitution, too.
But it also seems to me as bad politics for the Republicans. We have also seen Chief Justice Robert's goal of eviserating the Voting Rights Act met with the assistance of Justice Alito. Black voters may turn out in November as they rarely do in midterms. Perhaps Black conservatives will finally realize the Republicans have run out of uses for them. Might the Republicans who voted to keep their state Senators understand the true RINOs wear MAGA hats. After all, Trump is losing support among Republicans and independents.
Jake Tapper on Trump CNN poll claim: ‘Nope’(The Hill)
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office earlier Tuesday about the supposed poll, suggesting that “I am at, according to CNN, 100 percent approval within the Republican Party,” adding that he thinks “the people that did that poll probably got fired.”
“Nope,” Tapper responded in a post on social platform X and included a link to the CNN story.
“In this story from today, we see Trump support among Republicans from 3/25 to 3/26 has gone from 90% to 80% and strong support from 64% to 43%,” he wrote.
I have spent time (probably too much time) looking through the Indiana Secretary of State's site looking at information on the 2024 election. What I wanted to find was the difference between votes cast and the total number of voters in each race. I could not find any records showing the votes in state legislative races.
I did find General Election Turnout and Registration. Yes, there might be enough voters to make a difference in a close race; this may also be an illusion.
There is also STATEWIDE VOTER COUNTS BY COUNTY AND STATUS.
So, I am trying this:
Donald J. Trump 1720347
Kamala Harris 116360
Which totals to 1,836,707. The total of registered voters: 4,674,413 (as of January 2, 2024). The difference is 2,837,706. Therein lies enough voters to have made a difference. There might be enough voters in Indiana to change the Republican hold on us. sch |
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please feel free to comment