ELECTION/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Luke Messer says President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. Todd Rokita is introducing a resolution to end special counsel Robert Mueller’s ‘witch hunt’ into Trump’s campaign. Mike Braun wants Indiana voters to know he’s a convention-busting businessman — ‘just like President Trump.’ The bloody Republican primary in one of the nation’s most competitive Senate races has offered a window into Trump’s takeover of the GOP two years after he knocked Ted Cruz out of the race and effectively clinched the party’s presidential nomination here two years ago. The three candidates vying to take on first-term Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly — Rokita and Messer, both House members, and Braun, a former state representative and auto parts distribution company owner — are each casting themselves as Trump acolytes in their closing arguments ahead of the May 8 contest…In the race’s closing days, the three candidates are attacking each other as insufficiently supportive of Trump.”
-Eric Bradner, “Indiana’s GOP Senate primary is a contest to prove who loves Trump the most,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 3, 2018 1:01 pm