Lanane said Bayh being on the November ballot will have an impact on state and county races. He said he hasn’t talked to Trump since they met in person two Saturdays ago. In Vigo, “It would be a tremendous impact in a favorable way to all of our candidates”.
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He went on to serve four years as USA ambassador to Germany and was working as a lobbyist – with plans to retire in North Carolina – when he jumped into the 2010 GOP primary after Bayh ended his re-election bid.
Hill has struggled to raise money, while Bayh has $9 million sitting in his campaign account. And I want to do everything in my power to ensure a U.S. Senate that will govern responsibly.
Vigo County Democrat Bionca Gambill said the news “comes as a pleasant surprise”.
Bayh is easily the most popular Democrat in the state.
CNN reported on Monday that former Democratic U.S. Senator Evan Bayh meant to enter the race.
Fred Nation, former executive assistant and press secretary to then-Gov. Still, political scientist Andrew Downs says people shouldn’t discount how long it’s been since Bayh ran for office. “It will be a little while”.
Not to put too fine a point on this, but Bayh wouldn’t make a move like this – especially so late in the process – unless the conditions favored Democrats. I hope you will continue to do the same.
Todd Young’s campaign manager said Monday, “After he cast the deciding vote for Obamacare, Evan Bayh left IN families to fend for themselves so he could cash IN with insurance companies and influence peddlers as a gold-plated lobbyist”.
Nation said he didn’t see it coming.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is in line to be the Senate Democratic Leader after Sen.
Hill didn’t refer to Bayh when he posted on his campaign website that he was dropping out, but the moderate Democrat did imply there was a candidate with a better chance waiting in the wings. Evan Bayh is known statewide. I had never heard a rumor about it… “I think John Gregg has to be smiling and this could even get us in a position to begin making in-roads in the Legislature”.
He added, “It really shakes up the local ticket…”
The circumstances of Bayh taking over Hill’s candidacy mid-election is a bit odd because it’s the opposite of what happened back in 2010.
Barack Obama reportedly considered naming Evan Bayh his vice presidential running mate in 2008 before settling on Joe Biden. “Whether we like it or not, our future is going to rise and fall together….”
Bayh immediately becomes the favorite in a race where Republican Todd Young appeared to be on his way to a runaway victory.
Against Baron Hill, “I thought Young would easily win”.
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“Bayh has publicly said ‘I hate politics and it’s broken, ‘ but he’s now doing something that’s inherently political by getting back in”, Republican pollster Christine Matthews said Monday.
