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Four Days in July That Rocked Indiana Pence’S Pursuit of Veep Nod, Holcomb’S Win at GOP Central Committee Were Bold Moves Toward November History by BRIAN A V22, N15 Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 Four days in July that rocked Indiana Pence’s pursuit of veep nod, Holcomb’s win at GOP Central Committee were bold moves toward November history By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – When filing back through time to make sense of the Gov. Mike Pence and Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb sensational Nov. 8 election that catapulted celebrate their Election Day victories that Gov. Mike Pence were forged by four momentus days in into global power July, including Trump’s visit to Indianapolis and capped Eric and Westfield. Holcomb’s unprec- edented rise in Indi- Republican presidential ticket with ana, it comes down Donald Trump. Except it was not fait to four days in July accompli. That wouldn’t happen until when the historic Friday, July 15. and fateful dramas unfolded. And on Monday July 25, after 22 Indiana Republi- On July 14, we witnessed cable breaking news can Central Committee members migrated back to Indiana reports of Gov. and Mrs. Pence disembarking on a charter from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, the flight from Indianapolis to Teterboro, N.J., in what most thought was an obvious sign he was about to join the Continued on page 3 2016 winners and losers By MARK SOUDER FORT WAYNE – Every election results in individual and categorical winners and losers that impact the longer- term future of politics. Here are a few of my selections. Indiana winner: The Pence/Coats establishment. “The very worst choice you can It directed the quasi-slating of the victorious state ticket: Todd make is to opt out as a citizen, to Young for Senate, in part by give in to the cynicsm, the moving Eric Holcomb out and into position to become gover- despair and the anger. We have to nor; Suzanne Crouch as lieu- tenant governor; Curtis Hill as pull back from the toxity of this attorney general; and Jennifer election, and if we don’t, our McCormick as superintendent of education. In political years, system of government eventually especially by Indiana stan- will break.” dards, they are “fresh faces” ready to ready to rejuvenate - Lee Hamilton Page 2 the brand. Jeff Flake, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Indiana loser: An exhausted many others. Democrat re-tread brand. Evan Bayh National loser: See Indiana is one of the most decent men to reference, insert “Pelosi” and “Clin- represent our state, but coming back ton.” Reelecting Nancy Pelosi minority after clearly moving to Washington leader would not help the re-tread and becoming Big Bucks Bayh was a image. Nor would making Joe Biden huge mistake, and his biggest mistake head of the Democrat National Com- was trying to deny those changes. mittee. New Senate Minority Leader John Gregg had a detailed list of what Chuck Schumer, because he is so Howey Politics Indiana he wanted to accomplish, and is gen- much more media savvy, is a short- WWHowey Media, LLC 405 erally considered “affable” when not term bridge to the new radical, more Massachusetts Ave., Suite nuking his opponents. The problem socialist wing of the Democrat Party. 300 Indianapolis, IN 46204 is that Gregg’s solutions, and Bayh’s, National winner: President were the same liberal re-tread ideas Barack Obama. Donald Trump did www.howeypolitics.com that Hoosiers had passed up long ago. what the President, his policies and Superintendent Ritz no longer had the Democrats could not do; they Brian A. Howey, Publisher Superintendent Bennett to kick Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington around. In fact, the Democrats Jack E. Howey, Editor really missed Richard Mourdock as well. They were hoping Trump Mary Lou Howey, Editor would drag down the ticket. At Maureen Hayden, Statehouse some point, the Democrats will Mark Curry, photography have to develop a strategy that appeals to Hoosiers, and not just try to scare them. Subscriptions National winner: The HPI, HPI Daily Wire $599 Congressional GOP. For a year of HPI Weekly, $350 “draining the swamp” there was Ray Volpe, Account Manager very little water seepage. From 317.602.3620 the earliest primaries until elec- tion day, 80-year-old incumbent email: [email protected] Republican senators were clobber- Contact HPI ing outsider rivals. For a number [email protected] of election cycles we have been Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 hearing Republican victories being Speaker Paul Ryan with 9th CD congressman- attributed to a grassroots rebel- elect Trey Hollingsworth in Sellersburg last Washington: 202.256.5822 lion, then to a desire to maintain month. (HPI Photo by Thomas Curry) Business Office: 317.602.3620 the status quo, then – repeat. At some point, since Republicans have pushed Obama to over 50% popular- © 2016, Howey Politics been prevailing in both the House ity. The President (and his family) Indiana. All rights reserved. and Senate, there needs to be an were also what conservatives had acknowledgement that voters prefer always thought Bill Cosby was, a real- Photocopying, Internet forward- conservative Republican policies and life example of an American dad (and ing, faxing or reproducing in tend to prefer the incumbents over family) that happened to be African- any form, whole or part, is a the opposition. Speaker Paul Ryan and American and a role model that suc- violation of federal law without Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc- cess in American can come regardless permission from the publisher. Connell endure a lot of abuse but are of your background. Furthermore, in positioned rather well; they expressed the critical first week after the Trump their concerns about President-elect victory, the President stood nearly Trump but did not totally abandon alone among national Democrats as a him. They control the legislative towering reminder of the importance branch to the degree that it can be of a smooth transition of power, this controlled. President Trump will now with a man who had questioned his be heavily dependent upon senators citizenship. he personally attacked, including John National winner: Bernie McCain, Lindsay Graham, Ben Sasse, Sanders and the Socialist wing of Page 3 the Democrats. Elizabeth Warren is set up to be the new president. Jerry Falwell and others who backed Trump Bernie. The general feeling in the left wing of the Demo- seemed morally lost. “Success” trumped character. Abor- crat Party is that Bernie would have defeated Trump if he tion is the last moral issue standing, in part because it was hadn’t been cheated out of the nomination. This faction not identified as primarily evangelical. will be almost as important to Republicans as Democrats. National losers: Small government conserva- “Socialists” will replace “Clinton” as the new voter mobili- tives. Donald Trump the nationalist is more statist than any zation word. Selecting leftist, Muslim-American Congress- of the Bush family. To be honest, I am more like Trump on man Keith Ellison would cement that socialist trend, with certain economic issues (i.e. trade, business support) that the goal of also highlighting not just white liberal social- resulted in me getting primary opponents every election ists from the East Coast. The question is this: After years but, compared to Trump, I’m a libertarian. of calling every liberal a “socialist” will it work as a scare Media Winners: Brian Howey, Megyn Kelly, Jef- word when faced with the real thing (though actually frey Lloyd, Chris Wallace, and especially social media. American socialist politicians are sort of “socialism lite.”) Media Losers: The Big Three TV networks, Fox National loser: Evangelical conservatism as a News, pollsters, the top 100 daily newspapers (only the political movement. The political evangelical movement Las Vegas Review Journal endorsed Trump and he lost that is now deeply divided. Many, many church leaders were state). shocked that so many Christian leaders not only voted for Biggest media winner: Brad Parscale. His media Trump, but defended him. They will likely step back from coverage will explode, just as it did about the Obama digi- direct politics for the foreseeable future stressing religion, tal world advances. He ran Trump’s alternative strategy of not politics. Evangelical Mike Pence as vice president is messaging. His firm in San Antonio had proven success in emerging as a likely power in critical administration staff- brand management. He demonstrated it could translate to ing and policy decisions, but the evangelical political domi- politics. Check out the article in Wired magazine. v nance within the Republican Party has been destroyed. Donald Trump buried the issues related to gay marriage. Souder is a former Republican congressman from Not that many years ago Dr. James Dobson was blasting Indiana. gambling. This election he was pushing a casino man for aides in the “Bridgegate” scandal in the final week of the Four days, from page 1 campaign, perhaps eclipsing FBI Director James Comey’s Holcomb campaign was riding high on endorsements from stunning letter that pulled the Hillary Clinton email scab off Pence and legislative leaders and expressing sheer con- in public view for the final time. It might have blunted the fidence he had the nomination in the bag. But he didn’t. surging tidal wave that would not only propel Trump, but That wouldn’t be secured until a second ballot on July 26. Pence and Holcomb into office. These cascading events have profoundly reshaped Trump would carry Indiana 57.2 to 37.9% for the political contours of Indiana Hillary Clinton and 4.9% and American politics. They for Libertarian Gary John- have obliterated the political and son, a 525,000 plurality media industries, from polling that swamped Gregg, Sen- to social media, to get-out-the- ate nominee Evan Bayh vote mechanisms. It has thrust and Supt.
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