Posted on 05/06/2026 11:07:13 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Terms such as "historic" and "game-changing" were used by to describe the outcome of the nationally watched Republican primaries for state Senate in the Hoosier State.
No less than five of the Trump-backed challengers unseated incumbents. Only two GOP senators have been defeated in primaries in the last 40 years.
The outcome of the primaries will not affect the shape of Indiana's U.S. House districts until 2027.
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My once POTUS crush Mitch Daniels was against it. Good that he’s too old too.
Very happy to see many of the Pence/Lugar RINO’s get primaried. Too bad ALL of them weren’t voted out (I think, what, two survived?) but this will hopefully tilt Hoosier politics away from the camp of Benedict Pence.
i can’t remember,was he 2000 or 2008 semi-hopeful?
RINO season was very good in Indiana.
I remember when Bratt beat Cantor and how big of a deal that was.
Texas Bush-RINO primary not yet over.
Neither is GA’s Kemp-Ratensburger-endorsed RINO primary.
Any other outcome would have been embarrassing.
Better to wait to celebrate until after the November election, and make sure none of those seats go to D's. If even one does, the Democrats will claim a symbolic victory.
This November is going to be a strange election.
RINO season’s been good nationwide. The Turtle and Tillis are “retiring” this year. Cornyn is toast. Cassidy is toast. We’ll see how Lindsey Graham does in South Carolina.
Before the terms the Republican wing of the uniparty, Deep State, GOP elite, and RINO came to be the operative term was Rockefeller Republicans.
And the Midwest was as much their home as New York.
The “old guard” that opposed Reagan and some might say cheated Reagan out of the nomination in 76 were Midwesterns.
Ford, Lugar, Michel et al.
NEVER forget Tricky Dickey Cheney was a Rockefeller Republican of the first order and was Warren Commissioner Gerry Ford’s Chief of Staff.
Reagan wanted NO part of Cheney in 1980 and exiled him to his home state though not the state he was born.
Cheney “reinvented” himself as a “conservative” as did Daddy Bush who was born in Massachusetts and Jethro Bodine Bush who was born in Connecticut.
As I like to say they went to Texas and got a fake “conservative” tan that wore off really quick when the got to DC.
Rockefeller Republicans or RINOs or just plain traitors who voted for Crooked Hillary or wrote in a name or whatever but NEVER voted for Trump as I and most folks on this forum have done THREE TIMES.
Indiana Mike Pence RINO’s got slaughtered.
Did the fly on his head survive?
Congratulations Senators McGrath, Cooper, and Talarico.
Cooper maybe. The other two? Nope!
Mike Pence is history. Out of sight and out of mind.
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