‘Literally off his rocker’: Why Trump is fixated on Indiana
Trump’s focus on the heavily-Republican state has become a bizarre subplot of the 2024 primary.
INDIANAPOLIS – Donald Trump has spent much of the past week fixated, of all places, on Indiana, accusing elections officials here of conspiring against him to help his rival, Nikki Haley, in a Republican presidential primary that won’t take place until May.
The complaints are baseless, elections officials say.
Worse, they and Trump’s opponents warn, with the former president raising alarms even in a state like deep-red Indiana, they look like a test run by Trump and his allies to undermine confidence in the election in November.
“Trump is reinforcing a narrative where the only acceptable outcome is his victory, thus pre-emptively delegitimizing any electoral defeat,” said Joshua Claybourn, a Republican attorney from Evansville and former GOP delegate from the state. “It sets the stage for yet another crisis of legitimacy in the November general election.”
Thanks for explaining the whole situation, because I had heard snippets from a Podcast that focuses on national politics and was just confused. It was also interesting why planting the seed of doubt for election validity in Indiana is more important than one might think.