The document summarizes recent political news and polling in Indiana. It finds that Governor Eric Holcomb has strong approval ratings, with 54% approval overall and 40% among blacks. However, Attorney General Curtis Hill has low approval ratings and 60% of voters have no opinion of him. The document also discusses potential 2020 Democratic candidates for governor and a possible primary challenge to Republican Congressman Jim Banks.

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Our 2020 Vision
Since we are less than a year away
from the May primary, we here at TCS
have decided to take a look at the
political landscape and see where
things are. And if you’re Governor
Eric Holcomb, you are in a pretty
good place, at least according to the
latest public polls. The poll of 800
registered voters conducted by We
Ask America had Holcomb’s approval
ratings at 54 percent, and 50 percent
thought the state was moving in the
right direction. Donald Trump was
only at 46 percent.
What was really interesting was in the
crosstabs.
Eric Holcomb
Holcomb’s approval ratings amongst
blacks were 40 percent. In the
Chicago and South Bend media
markets, his approval ratings
averaged about 46 percent, and you
know neither of those is necessarily a
Republican stronghold. And among
Democrats overall, Holcomb’s
approval ratings are at about 33
percent.

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When asked whether Indiana was on
the right track, 35 percent of blacks
thought Indiana was on the right track.
51 percent of the respondents in the
Indianapolis media market, 40 percent
of those living in the Chicago media
market and 48 percent in the South
Bend media market thought Indiana
was on track and 23 percent of
Democrats thought Indiana was
headed in the right direction.
And Holcomb’s approval ratings
among Independents is over 40
percent.
So what about his re-election? Forty-
six percent of blacks said yes or
probably. 45 percent of those living in
the Chicago media market said yes,
while 44 percent of those living in the
South Bend market. And about a third
of Democrats thought the Governor
should be re-elected as did 51 percent
of Independents.
Curtis Hill
The Attorney General hasn’t
specifically said he is running for re-
election, however, in our last
conversation in my LNG
capacity (Legitimate News Guy for
you new subscribers) he has a lot of
room to maneuver because a lot of
voters just don’t have an opinion of
him, despite the recent controversies.
Overall, Hill’s approval rating was 13
percent and his disapproval rating was
26 percent, but 60 percent had no
opinion of the AG. With that said, Hill’s
strongest approval ratings were

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among blacks at 22 percent. And 61
percent of Democrats had no opinion
of Hill.
Pete Buttigieg
If Mayor Pete wants to win the
Presidential nomination, he will have
some work to do here in the Hoosier
state. Buttigieg polls third (20 percent)
after Joe Biden (33 percent) and Bernie
Sanders (23 percent); however with
the margin of error, Sanders and
Buttigieg are statistically tied. With
voters 35 and older Buttigieg comes in
second after Biden, He polls second
with women and third with men. He
polls at zero percent with African
Americans.
Indiana Democrats
They are currently in the process of
fielding candidates for next year. The
two names TCS keeps hearing for
Governor are Dr. Woody Meyers,
former State Health Commissioner and
former Congressman Baron Hill. The
other person we are keeping an eye
on is State Rep. Karlee Macer. She
recently changed the name of her
Facebook page to Karlee Macer for
Indiana. This is leading to speculation
that Macer wants to run for Lt.
Governor. That leads to speculation
that would only happen if Meyers
didn’t run for Governor since both are
from Marion County. And if you’re
wondering about Christina Hale, all
signs point to her running against
Susan Brooks in CD 5 next year.

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Jim Banks
We are hearing Jim Banks may be
getting a primary challenge next
year. As if only getting seven percent
of the vote in 2016 wasn’t enough,
Pam Galloway, the former Wisconsin
State Senator (I won’t say
carpetbagger because that’s an insult
to carpet baggers) is likely going to
challenge Banks next year. They self-
funded last time and spent nearly a
quarter million dollars to come in 4th
place. She also affiliated with Hoosiers
for Life and Tea party Empress Monica
Boyer.
A Few Other Items of Note
Long time Indiana State Police
Spokesman Dave Bursten going to
take over Communications at the
Indiana Department of Corrections.
OMB Director Micah Vincent is the
latest Holcomb administration official
to depart. He is heading to the
Heritage Group. Deputy Chief of Staff
Cris Johnston is taking his place,

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Scott Rudd, the director of broadband
opportunities in the Lt. Governor’s
Office, was appointed to the
Broadband Deployment Advisory
Committee, which is housed under the
Federal Communications Commission.
Equal Time
As you know last week we wrote that
the word on the street was that the
gaming corporation Penn National
was believed to be behind some of the
bad press regarding the omnibus
gaming legislation in an effort to
protect its interest in Nothern Indiana.
We got a call from one of their
representatives who told us Penn had
nothing to do with the bad press and
our sources were wrong.
TCS told them are sources were pretty
reliable and we had to politely agree
to disagree. We did offer them a
chance to go on the record and chat in
our LNG capacity and they were very
receptive to the offer, so stay tuned.
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