National elections analyst calls 5th District race a toss-up

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5 thoughts on “National elections analyst calls 5th District race a toss-up

  1. Please indy and Hamilton County, choose Christina Hale. She’s a moderate. Victoria is way too severe and strict and far right. Congress needs more reps that can work with both Repubs and Dems. And that’s definitely not Comrade Spartz.

  2. Spartz points out that Trump won the district by 12 points in 2016. Trump though only received 56% of the vote in Hamilton County in that election, under performing every Republican candidate in that county. In the 2018 and 2019 election, the GOP numbers in northern Marion County and Hamilton County declined dramatically, so much so that by the 2019 municipal elections, Democrats were winning races in Carmel and Fishers. In 2019, Republicans did not win a single precinct in Washington Township, which is the largest and wealthiest township in Marion County. Pike Republicans also got shut out and the Lawrence GOP darn near did as well. While Spartz doesn’t think the numbers have swung that dramatically to Democrats in the district, she would be wrong. While attaching herself to Trump might have helped in the primary, it will certainly be an albatross around her neck in the general election.

  3. Just remember, Spartz has pledged to be a rubberstamp for anything Donald Trump wants. Hale will at least be more thoughtful and more independent when it comes to a President Biden. My Republican Party blew it when it came to Trump. They abdicated their constitutional responsibility to check Trump and hold him accountable. They refused to do any actual oversight. And now Republican House and Senate candidates will pay a price for that irresponsibility. They earned the slaughter that’s coming.

  4. As between the radical left and the far right; I’ll take my chances on the far right. We’ve seen a preview of the radical left over the last month.

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