Donald Rainwater Responds To Attack Ads From The Indiana Republican Party
This race for governor has gotten ugly. Normally the mud slings between Republicans and Democrats, but because Libertarian Donald Rainwater got 11% of the vote in 2020, he too has found himself now the target of negative political ads.
Donald Rainwater joined Tony Katz and the Morning News to respond to these attack ads. Why are the Republicans running these ads now?
Rainwater:
To get an honest answer, I’m sure you would have to ask the Indiana Republican State Committee. What I have heard through the Grapevine is that they want to get over 50% of the vote in order to have a mandate. With the General Assembly, and because their polling shows that they don’t have that, they feel that if they smear my good name that they can peel votes away from me. I find it interesting that I always hear from people that I’m going to steal votes from the Republican or from the Democrat? And I have heard both this election cycle. The reality is I’m earning my votes. The people who are voting for me, I’ve earned their vote. And it appears that the Republican Party feels that their candidate is not doing a good enough job of earning people’s votes, so they have to discredit me in order to hope to pick those votes up
The focus of these ads center around Rainwater’s own financial misfortunes that resulted from his divorce. The mailer being sent to Hoosier homes accuses Rainwater of losing custody of his child, failing to pay child support and being held in contempt by a judge.
Because child custody was the focus of the mailer, Tony asked Donald about his current relationship with his son. Listen to the discussion in full, and how Rainwater would govern if elected Governor of Indiana:
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