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Bayh's 2010 Issues Resurface In V22, No. 2 Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016 Bayh’s 2010 issues resurface in ‘16 murky. Was it his looming deciding vote for Wealth, residency, Obamacare, Obamacare? Was it the emerging Tea Party post-Senate career mark week movement that would help end fellow Sen. Dick Lugar’s political career two years later? By BRIAN A. HOWEY Was it the fact that the Bayhs found them- INDIANAPOLIS – In the fateful hours selves much wealthier at this point than before Evan Bayh’s February 2010 bombshell that when he entered the Senate in 1999? Was he wouldn’t seek a third U.S. Senate term, a waiter it that the media attention would be afixed described a private confab in a downtown Indianapolis to Susan Bayh, an attorney of unremarkable stature who hotel that was attended by the senator, his wife and some ended up on a number of corporate boards where she of his closest supporters. raked in millions of dollars? The waiter described the scene as Bayh loyalists pleading with him: “You just can’t run.” The details were Continued on page 4 Pence moves in Trump Inc. By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – This latest week of Mike Pence’s excellent adventure began under the cloud of gloom and a landslide Trump loss in the making. Instead of measur- ing for curtains in the Old Executive Office Building, Pence allies were said to be scouting “Maybe it’s just the mother in potential post-2016 options for a governor soon to be without a me.” state. - Kellyanne Conway, Donald At this writing, Pence seemed to have consolidated a Trump’s new campaign stronger position within Trump/ Pence, Inc., when his long-time manager and Gov. Pence’s pollster, Kellyanne Conway, was pollster, on how she elevated to manage day-to- day operations while Breitbart doesn’t like name calling executive Stephen Bannon was and negative campaigning made chief executive in the Page 2 second Trump campaign shakeup this they believe traditional political lead- summer. It comes as a new Mon- ers have failed them because they mouth University Poll in Indiana shows are corrupt or out of touch. She said the Republican ticket leading Clinton Trump has tapped a feeling among 47-36% with Gary Johnson at 10%. voters who increasingly ask, “Is it fair Conway’s ascension could for me to work so hard to support signal greater influence by Pence on people who aren’t working at all?” the Trump operations. Conway was Conway isn’t infallible. As Pence’s long-time pollster who joined Pence’s pollster, her client wasn’t the campaign early this summer. It prepared for the firestorm that 2015 Howey Politics Indiana was Conway who suggested Pence Religious Freedom Restoration Act cre- WWHowey Media, LLC 405 to Trump as a potential vice presi- ated, essentially ending Pence’s own Massachusetts Ave., Suite dential nominee and appears to have presidential ambitions. His defense of 300 Indianapolis, IN 46204 guided the nominee in the governor’s RFRA faltered on ABC’s “This Week” direction. Pence was supposed to when he stumbled over whether dis- www.howeypolitics.com be Trump’s liaison to conservative, crimination could occur in the public evangelical and establishment Repub- space. Pence is famous for adhering Brian A. Howey, Publisher licans. Even after Pence joined the to a strict set of poll-tested talking Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington ticket, establishment Republicans have points that were absent in April 2015, Jack E. Howey, Editor continued to peel away from Trump’s though Pence successfully breezed undisciplined campaign. through a similar line of questioning Mary Lou Howey, Editor National and from Fox’s Chris Wallace on Maureen Hayden, Statehouse state news stories posi- Sunday. Mark Curry, photography tioned Pence as Trump’s Bannon’s elevation apologist, clarifier and from the red meat conser- cleanup man. “I couldn’t vative website Breitbart Subscriptions be more honored to be seemed to imply that Trump HPI, HPI Daily Wire $599 campaigning shoulder to would continue his aggres- HPI Weekly, $350 shoulder with a man who sive nature. NBC News Ray Volpe, Account Manager I believe is going to be observed: In doing so, he’s 317.602.3620 the next president of the placing a campaign-defining United States,” Pence said bet on his raw political email: [email protected] on “Fox News Sunday,” instincts to dig him out of Contact HPI adding, though, that he Kellyanne Conway will a polling slump that’s seen [email protected] and Trump simply have now manage the Trump/ Clinton seize a significant Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 “different styles.” That Pence campaign. lead nationally and in key came after a New York swing states. Washington: 202.256.5822 Times article that claimed interviews Conway, who will apparently Business Office: 317.602.3620 with more than 20 Republicans who travel with Trump and have a flow of are close to Mr. Trump or in commu- survey data at her fingertips, can be © 2016, Howey Politics nication with his campaign, many of seen as refining the billionaire’s mes- Indiana. All rights reserved. whom insisted on anonymity to avoid sage and keeping him on something clashing with him, describing their of a script, as opposed to the wheel- Photocopying, Internet forward- nominee as “exhausted, frustrated ing and dealing free lance optics that ing, faxing or reproducing in and still bewildered by fine points have consistently gotten the mogul off any form, whole or part, is a of the political process and why his message and into the hot messes that violation of federal law without incendiary approach seems to be sput- Pence has tried to clean up. permission from the publisher. tering.” “I have known Steve and Speaking in Indianapolis last Kellyanne both for many years. They month, Conway called Pence a “win- are extremely capable, highly quali- dow to party unity” after a fractious fied people who love to win and know GOP primary fight. In her remarks to how to win,” said Trump. “I believe more than 1,000 members of ALEC, we’re adding some of the best talents Conway urged the elected officials in politics, with the experience and to heed the anxiety of Trump voters. expertise needed to defeat Hillary They feel angst about the economy Clinton in November and continue to and national security, she said, and share my message and vision to Make Page 3 America Great Again. I am committed to doing whatever it that President Obama was the “founder” of the terror- takes to win this election, and ultimately become president ist caliphate ISIS, doubled down with Pence alternatively because our country cannot afford four more years of the defending him and bashing the media, Trump fooled us failed Obama-Clinton policies which have endangered our all, saying it was just “sarcasm,” adding, “I love watching financial and physical security.” these poor, pathetic people (pundits) on television working With just over 80 days left in the campaign, time so hard and so seriously to try and figure me out. They is of the essence. Early voting commences on Sept. 23, can’t!” Trump would move away from that, saying over the first of 35 states (including Indiana) to do so. The the weekend that while he was being sarcastic, he wasn’t New York Times reported on Wednesday that early voting being that sarcastic. has become a critical, even decisive factor in presidential Trump seemed to acknowledge a “tremendous elections. President Obama was sufficiently ahead in the problem” in Utah. He was asked by CNBC how he planned early vote in Iowa and Nevada in 2012 that his campaign to reverse the trend, Trump responded, saying he simply shifted resources from those states to others. Nearly 32% planned to do “the same thing I’m doing right now. At the of voters cast their ballots before Election Day in 2012, ac- end, it’s either going to work, or I’m going to, you know, cording to census data, compared with 29.7% in 2008 and I’m going to have a very, very nice, long vacation.” 20% in 2004. Sifting out in the national press came word that This means that Pence and his team are already looking beyond Trump/Pence has a little Nov. 8. Politico reported that barring a sharp more than a month to turnaround, Pence’s allies will “need to focus on change the dynamic before minimizing the damage” if he aims for a political actual votes are cast. career after Election Day. “Mike has done a good The news coming this job distancing himself from Trump even as his VP week wasn’t good news choice, and as odd as that is as a campaign dy- for the ticket. An NBC/ namic, it’s showing that his principles come first, Survey Monkey Tracking however much some think he has compromised Poll shows Hillary Clinton his principles,” Politico quoted a Pence ally. This leading Trump among reg- comes after Pence ditched a long-time stance as istered voters nationally by a free trade advocate for the Trump position, and 50-41%. Even more crucially, Clinton is demolishing Trump embraced the proposed Muslim ban he once called “offen- on the question of who has the right personality and tem- sive” and “unconstitutional.” perament to be president: 42% of voters say Clinton does, The New York Times reported: “Behind the scenes, versus only 17% who say Trump does, according to the Mr. Pence and his team of loyalists are waging an equally Washington Post. A Post poll in swing state Virginia shows challenging campaign, hoping to position him as a com- Trump trailing 14% and a Monmouth Poll in Florida shows pelling national politician for a post-2016 landscape.
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