Importantville

Days until Indiana’s primary: 0 A decade ago this month, Donald Trump called Indiana IMPORTANTVILLE as it made him the presumptive nominee. Tonight, we’re going to find out just how much juice he still has here. MAGA allies and their opponents have spent some $13.5 million this primary, according to AdImpact, a 4,736 percent increase from last cycle. What…

Days until Indiana’s primary: 11 FRANKLIN — President Donald Trump’s retribution campaign here is not going as well as he’d like. The push to oust eight Indiana Republican state senators after they refused to bow to him on redistricting was supposed to be a major show of force. But after millions of dollars spent and weeks of intense campaigning, his alli…

Days until Indiana’s primary: 29 Gov. Mike Braun, in just his second year in office, is preparing to go nuclear on incumbent state GOP senators who did not back President Donald Trump’s plan for mid-cycle redistricting. Braun’s HOPE Super PAC is planning to spend $500,000 in next month’s primaries, as I scooped. He also plans to endorse a number of the…

We are careening toward what is fast becoming the Spite Primary here in the Hoosier state. Years of political grievances and intraparty feuds are spilling out into the open. Everybody is against everybody: Turning Point is endorsing six primary challengers to Indiana Republican senators who opposed a mid-decade map redraw. So, too, is President Donald T…

Days until Primary Day: 56 With the short state legislative session in the rearview mirror, Indiana politics is heating up: State senators who voted down mid-cycle redistricting are starting to feel the heat, the now multiple-way secretary of state’s race is threatening politicos with a good time and the national political gaze will fall on the Hoosier …

NEWS: Former Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard is weighing an independent campaign for secretary of state, according to multiple people briefed on the matter. Neither Ballard nor his spokesperson Robert Vane responded to requests for comment Thursday. Democratic candidate Beau Bayh’s advisers have been closely tracking the development. Among the people be…

This week in Indiana politics, a decade happened. For the first time in a long time in this barn-red state, a Democratic statewide candidate has out-raised their Republican incumbent opponent. Beau Bayh has more cash on hand than GOP Secretary of State Diego Morales — $1.56 million to $1.19 million. A city councilor from Bluffton, meanwhile, found himsel…

HAPPENING THIS WEEK: Gov. Mike Braun will deliver his state of the state speech at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. NEW THIS MORNING: Democratic secretary of state candidate Beau Bayh announced raising $1.8 million and ended the year with $1.56 million cash on hand. We reported yesterday his expected haul was almost $2 million. The news release makes a careful poin…

THE IMPORTANTVILLE READ: I’m out this morning with a nearly 10,000-word, 7-chapter piece on President Donald Trump’s plot to redraw America, co-authored with my colleague Andrew Howard, with significant new reporting on Indiana’s role in the plan. Some highlights:

IN 2016, ON THE BRINK of winning the GOP nomination heading into our consequential May primary, Donald Trump dubbed Indiana Importantville. Nearly a decade later, the Hoosier state would reclaim that title. From Oval Office summons of Indiana pols to Truth Social posts about workaday state senators to threats of state legislative primaries, Trump rekind…