“Mike Pence really is able to recruit a decent amount of money and attention from the same people who really want to tamp down on what the voters want, but he really is not able to have much purchase among voters, and these resounding results in Indiana from Tuesday night are really another indication of that,” Federalist Executive Editor Joy Pullmann told Steve Bannon on War Room Thursday.
“It was just [a] knock-down, drag-out win for really transforming the party in the state. You have these two wings — the usual insurgent conservative wing supported by Gov. Braun, U.S. Sen. Jim Banks, [Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita], really a vibrant side of the party attempting to transform it. People will say in a more Trumpy direction, but I would say more in a direction along the policies and the transaction and the delivery that Trump excites and gives to voters.”
“The other side of the party is the people who really just get elected in order to continue getting campaign donations from local businesses. They don’t really have an agenda. They don’t understand the existential crises, many of them compounding, that the country is in, and the need and desire and urgency for having serious, sustained action to meet those problems. So Mike Pence represents the past of the GOP, where voters are done with that.”
“I do think people respect [Pence] for his personal integrity, it is absolutely a great thing not to sleep around with other women. But voters also can see that there are other virtues that are important than just temperance,” she continued. “One of the four cardinal virtues is also courage. And courage is something that President Trump absolutely has in spades and that voters are really responding to, as the virtue of the moment that they want to be following into some victories over Democrats that really want to destroy our country, destroy our future, destroy our children.”
“So it’s been really a motivating moment to see these victories in Indiana. The [state senators] who voted against redistricting, they were … misled by local and corporate media, as well as the activism among the Democrat side to cloud and confuse their minds. They should have been having better listening sessions, because clearly their voters want a different direction for the party and for that to be all the way down to the local level.”
