What Went Down In The Indiana Primary

In the last half hour, Sanders has begun to show more strength. He’s ahead in South Bend, and he’s holding his own in Indianapolis and its suburbs. However, Clinton should eventually be able to count on a better margin in Indianapolis and traditionally late-reporting Gary, which have the highest proportions of African-American voters in the state. Clinton still looks like the favorite to win, but suddenly it’s not looking like as much of a blowout.

We probably won’t record one of our patented (okay, fine, patent pending) late-night podcasts to discuss Indiana tonight. But we do have a live show in Washington, D.C., tomorrow where we’ll be able to analyze the results. All along, we thought that if Cruz won Indiana, we’d have delegate math to break down, and if Trump won we’d take a step back, treat him like the presumptive nominee, and start to grapple with…. what that means. So, I’m curious: What big-think Donald Trump questions do you have tonight? For us, for yourself, for our country? What’s your working theory about Trump’s rise? What does it say about the state of our politics? This is a moment, people. Help us get our heads around it. Tweet me, email us, or post in the comments to the right (yes, we read those).

We’ve spent some time over the last couple of weeks talking about Trump’s strategic decision to call the GOP primary process unfair; in our Slack chat earlier today, Nate pointed out that “Trump’s gains in the polls coincided with the period when he started pressing the case about the Republican primary system being rigged against him.” But it looks like that’s not necessarily a message that’s playing in any particularly meaningful way with voters in Indiana. According to the exit polls, only a third of voters agreed with Trump’s argument that the GOP nomination process is “rigged.”