Three state senators who were defeated in Tuesday’s primary told NBC News they don’t feel differently about the redistricting vote that drew Trump’s ire.
After a group of Indiana Republican legislators rejected their party’s redistricting plan last year, they faced public ridicule from Donald Trump and millions of dollars in negative attack ads, with several ultimately losing their jobs Tuesday.
But three of those state senators told NBC News on Wednesday that they have no second thoughts about the vote that put them in the spotlight and led to their defeats at the hands of Trump-backed challengers.
We need to start calling thr GOP “trump’s party”. That way when he is gone it will remind people of all the “like minded” politicians he put in place, and that they need to go as well.
No, they’re all MAGA now. The Republican party was just the larval stage before they morphed into their final form - MAGA. The Republican Party should only be referred to in a historical, scholarly context.
Then when it’s all over, and MAGA is declared a Domestic Terror Organization, and an active National Security Threat, we can prohibit it from existing, and the Republican party will go away with it, and the few conservatives who haven’t been prohibited from holding office under 14A/S3, will be forced to create a new conservative party from scratch, except this time it will have government regulation, to keep it from becoming what it became before.
And if they don’t like it, then they don’t get a party at all. We are in no way obligated as a nation to tolerate Treason, Racism, and Pedophilia under the disengenuous guise of Free Speech.
As does every other member of the Republican party
I hope one day we can return to even a semblance of the country I like to think we once had (or at least once liked to pretend that we had) where we can have different values, ideologies, and strategies between parties, but at the very least we can agree on fair representation, mutual respect, compromise, cooperation, and basic humanity. I doubt these men and I agree on much, but as a Hoosier I am grateful that they didnt let this state succumb to Trump’s attempt to make my vote count even less than it already does in my red district. They have my deep respect in this one regard at least for having good principles and the backbone to stand by them. Their replacement will probably be our loss.
Report from 2023 on the map they were defending that you say shows their "good principles (arc)
The report declared Indiana’s maps a “clear partisan gerrymander” given the state’s Republican trifecta.
“Fair maps advocates faced an uphill struggle to make their voices heard,” the report said. “The legislature ultimately drew and passed maps that focused primarily on maximizing the number of districts that Republicans would win.”
It said lawmakers “erected structural barriers” that hindered public participation: few redistricting hearings, meetings during weekdays, on already-completed proposals.
If you really want to get back there can be agreement on mutual respect and fair representation, fuck off with your bullshit fantasies. The Republican party hates you and me and anyone who tries to defy them and no amount of lying to yourself and everyone here is going to change that, it’s just going to give those bastards more opportunities to repress us.
Only 3 of 8 lost. Having a petty pdfile attack them doesn’t work like it used to.
Factually incorrect,
Five of the seven lost their primaries Tuesday, while another, Greg Goode, advanced to the general election. The other, Spencer Deery, led Trump-backed Paula Copenhaver by just three votes in a race that remained too close to call Wednesday.
Moreover, the argument you’re trying to make with that fact is divorced from reality. Trump is hugely influential among Republicans - polls consistently show self identified Republicans having over 80% approval for him and his policies, and the vast majority of their electeds have done everything he wanted and refused to condemn any of his craziness.
This is because the Republican party is an evil organization and has been so ever since the 1960s when they came out swinging against the Civil Rights Acts because they wanted to get dirt poor racist rednecks to vote for tax breaks for oligarchs and deregulation for their factories. Donald Trump is just the latest and most severe example of generations of doubling down on bigotry as a way to market their grifts.
There are no good members of the Republican party. Failure to accept this difficult truth and act accordingly will lead to the destruction of America.
Of course they don’t, dipshit asshole conservatives never think anything is their own fault, even when it comes straight out of the political party they’ve supported their whole lives
Yeah not sure the hostility here. They opposed dark money in politics, voted the way their constituents wanted, and paid the price.
We should be complimenting those actions
So, did they vote the way their constituents wanted? This Tuesday’s results would disagree with that no?
Primary voters aren’t the whole of the electorate. Though being Indiana, I suspect the new whackjobs are going to win the general.
it’s an indicator… But, with all the “stuff” going on, it could have just been the current ‘hot topic’ which voters were tricked into “if we don’t support THIS terrible thing, the democrats are going to do THAT terrible thing” and its not necessarily reflective of actual beliefs.
Yeah, you’re probably right. I actually had the exact same thought as your original comment. I’m just kind of hoping that with the way things have been going lately maybe something good will actually happen. But I’ve lived in Indiana so that hope is very small.
Hello fellow Hoosier <sigh>
Normally these races have at most $200,000 at play. Trump dumped millions in negative ads against them because they wouldn’t gerrymander the voting districts.
Reading comprehension?
