ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In many parts of the country, Republican candidates are trying to put distance between themselves and President Trump. In the Indiana Senate primary, the bruising fight is over which candidate is the more authentically Trumpian. As the May 8 primary election approaches, the race here has taken a nasty turn, with candidates attacking one another as insufficiently aligned with the president, or way too late to Team Trump. Some Republicans worry that the tenor has the potential to bloody the winner so badly that he will be weakened in the general election contest against Senator Joe Donnelly, one of this election year’s most vulnerable Democrats.”
–Michael Tackett,” In Indiana and Beyond, Bruising G.O.P. Primary Fights Worry Party Leaders,” The New York Times online, April 2, 2018