{"id":22244,"date":"2026-05-06T15:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22244"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:59:25","slug":"trump-gets-revenge-and-other-takeaways-from-tuesdays-indiana-and-ohio-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22244","title":{"rendered":"Trump gets revenge, and other takeaways from Tuesday\u2019s Indiana and Ohio primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;the president and his political allies flooded the ordinarily sleepy state legislative primaries \u2014 where the spending is typically in the tens of thousands and primary votes cast number about 10,000 to 12,000 \u2014 with millions of dollars in advertising casting the incumbents as disloyal to Trump and blaming them for voters\u2019 various frustrations, particularly property taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s approval rating has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/05\/politics\/trump-approval-rating-analysis-vis?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slipped nationally<\/a>, and his support among independents has evaporated. But very conservative voters \u2014 those who make up his base \u2014 are still with him. And they are the voters who decide contests like state Senate primaries in deep-red Indiana.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/trump-gets-revenge-other-takeaways-031835956.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/trump-gets-revenge-other-takeaways-031835956.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the president and his political allies flooded the ordinarily sleepy state legislative primaries \u2014 where the spending is typically in the tens of thousands and primary votes cast number about 10,000 to 12,000 \u2014 with millions of dollars in advertising casting the incumbents as disloyal to Trump and blaming them for voters\u2019 various frustrations, particularly property taxes.<br \/>\nTrump\u2019s approval rating has slipped nationally, and his support among independents has evaporated. But very conservative voters \u2014 those who make up his base \u2014 are still with him. And they are the voters who decide contests like state Senate primaries in deep-red Indiana.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/trump-gets-revenge-other-takeaways-031835956.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[585,221,372,198,1438,783,134,141,170],"class_list":["post-22244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-campaign","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-indiana","tag-ohio","tag-propaganda","tag-taxes","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22246,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244\/revisions\/22246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}