Trump loses more than 20% of the vote in noncontested primary in deep red state
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The relative support that Trump’s zombie opposition is finally getting some attention:
In 2016, Indiana put Donald Trump on the doorstep of the GOP presidential nomination. But eight years later, the state he called “Importantville” delivered his campaign some flashing red warning signs as Nikki Haley cleaned up in the suburbs.
By virtue of its late-in-the-nominating-calendar primary, the Hoosier state has always occupied a unique and occasionally powerful perch to make or break candidacies: Sen. Ted Cruz and then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich dropped out immediately after Trump’s victory that year. But the barn-red state also often acts as a pace car for Republicans nationally.
And in a primary that saw a record-breaking $98 million splash across the state, according to AdImpact, Tuesday was no exception.
A zombie Haley candidacy continued to punch above its weight in the Trumpiest of states: The former South Carolina governor is on track to break 20 percent for the first time since she dropped out of the race two months ago.
1)Does Trump bleeding double-digit support in one primary after another although all of his opposition has dropped out this mean much of anything? My guess is probably not. I suppose it shows he’s unusually unpopular for someone with a lead in most swing states right now, but we knew that.
2)If anything like this was happening to Biden, this would be a constant five-alarm story. There were attempts to preemptively gin up “BIDEN IS IN TROUBLE” stories going back to New Hampshire, and then there was the “uncommitted” hype that completely fizzled out after the unusual context of Michigan (and even “uncommitted” ended up with only 13%.)
Of course, we could also talk about what the coverage would look like if a Democratic candidate had semi-consensual unprotected sex with a porn star while his wife was pregnant and then paid her so the story wouldn’t interrupt the wall-to-wall EMAILS! coverage, but anyway.