Donnelly won his first term in 2012, when Democrats swarmed to the polls to re-elect President Barack Obama.
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The primary features two sitting congressman and a former state representative who all have tried to position themselves as the most Trump-like, and the most conservative.
Before his loss was official, Blankenship promised to explore his options in the general election including whether state election law might allow him to launch a third-party bid that could undermine Morrisey’s candidacy.
Messer said he was disappointed by the result of the election, “but I wouldn’t take any of it back”. In addition, he ran weird ads dubbing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “cocaine Mitch” because his father-in-law came from China and owned a shipping company. “Mike Braun will take a message of objective with him to Washington as a U.S. Senator, and be a strong partner for me and for all Hoosiers”.
Republicans had been wringing their hands over Blankenship, who appeared to be surging in the final days of the race. Blankenship led the company that owned the mine and was sentenced to a year in prison for conspiring to break safety laws, a misdemeanor.
Interested in Midterm Elections? Joe Manchin’s general election challenger. Donald Trump and his son Don Jr both disavowed Blankenship when the media stoked the idea of a surge, but it appears that the big takeaway was that the surge was mostly a fantasy stoked by internal polling and media hype. Joe Donnelly in November in what is expected to be one of the country’s most competitive Senate contests.
All through the first, Rokita continuously introduced a cutout of President Trump to marketing campaign occasions. And all three candidates have failed to earn Trump’s endorsement, although they all claim to be the most loyal to the president of all Republicans in the race. And Congressman Luke Messer was touting his Indiana Red Republican credentials. They ran hard. They ran tough.
The victor of the race faces incumbent Democratic Sen. But Tuesday’s outcome also made clear that the current mood of the GOP remains angry, defiant and not the least bit satisfied with the change that has come to Washington over the past 16 months.
And in OH, another businessman, Mike Gibbons, has sworn allegiance to Trump and is suing his opponent, Rep. Jim Renacci, for libel because the congressman has accused Gibbons of being anti-Trump. And in Indiana, Reps. Todd Rokita and Luke Messer.
Businessman and former state representative Mike Braun expressed a similar concern. A former Democrat, Braun has used his personal fortune to buy television ads across the state that painted Messer and Rokita as indistinguishable career politicians.
Rokita donned Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” hat in his ads and campaigned with the slogan “Defeat the Elite”.
But one congressman, Republican Rep. Jim Renacci in OH, captured his party’s nomination for the Senate with 47% of the vote.
Election night in the Buckeye State’s closely watched gubernatorial primaries was nearly over before it began, as Democrat Richard Cordray and Republican Mike DeWine immediately built huge leads based on early voting.
“We’re going to win this thing on the ground, one voter at a time, making sure that we focus on their family and their concerns”, he said in a conference call.
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The visible distinction was additionally the main target of certainly one of Braun’s most memorable adverts of the cycle, wherein he portrayed Messer and Rokita as similar, cardboard cutouts. Democratic front-runner Danny O’Conner won his primary fairly easily. Renacci was endorsed by the president, who came and campaigned for him multiple times.
