Christine Harrington 🙏🏼

Congratulations, Hamilton County transplants and the usual “we just want to make Indiana California but with the corn” crowd. You finally flipped a seat that Trump carried by 17 points two years ago and that Spartz won by nearly 20 last cycle. You didn’t do it with some massive 20-point Democratic overperformance like the cope account claims. You did it by 3–4 points after years of suburban demographic change, record outside spending, and a Republican incumbent who spent more time lecturing about Ukraine than she did about the price of groceries, property taxes, and the open southern border. Spartz was never a pure America First warrior. Ukrainian-born, frequently more interested in Kyiv’s problems than Indiana’s, and occasionally more interested in picking fights with her own side than closing the deal with voters who just want their kids’ schools to teach math instead of gender theory. That said, replacing her with a state senator whose defining achievement is being “historic” for the identity checklist is not exactly the flex y’all think it is. America 1st doesn’t mean “lose every suburban district because the party preferred virtue-signaling and foreign aid packages over kitchen-table issues.” It means learning the lesson and running candidates who actually put Indiana and America 1st instead of treating the Midwest like a consolation prize while chasing coastal donor priorities. Enjoy the victory lap. The same voters who flipped this seat will be the first ones screaming when the new guy’s party keeps pushing the same policies that made the cost of living feel like a second mortgage. Hoosiers notice.