We need not time-travel to foresee what will happen “day one” if the magaGOP [FN1] ticket for IN Gov/Lt Gov wins. A significant typo in that ticket must be given context. Micah Beckwith [FN2] announced in June 2023, s/he’d try to be the party nominee for Lt Gov. [FN3] 1/13

Sen Braun won the primary on May 7 & announced her/his “pick” for Lt Gov May 8. [FN4] As noted here, neither Braun nor her/his campaign hyped that pick. [FN5] So Braun either a) has her/his mind on deeper matters or b) is clueless. You decide. In a 03/22/22 media call 2/13

Braun said States should be allowed to ban interracial marriage. [FN6] [FN7] The reaction was so negative that, on the same day, Braun said “I misunderstood the question.” [FN8] [FN9]
Even if Braun & Beckwith hold a joint press conference & swear Beckwith, if elected 3/13

LT Gov, will obey/do anything Braun says, such promises are unenforceable. Once elected & sworn in, that’s it. IN Gov can’t order LT Gov to do/not do a damn thing, but LT Gov presides over the Senate. [FN10] Beckwith can effectively shut things down in a snit. [FN11] 4/13

Or Beckwith can demand Braun resign because “God” has told Beckwith this should be so. That brings me back to the typo. The ticket should be Beckwith alone as s/he has gotten the press & poses a real threat for higher office because of 891 delegates’ votes. 5/13

That’s the story of the magaGOP. Their cult of personality is centered on a man who never has had the most votes in a gen’l election. They take the Oval Office because of one of the vestiges of slavery: electors. #BrainsNotBraun 6/13

Footnotes:
FN1. This iteration of the Republican Party is not the GOP of old, but a magaGOP cult taken by the far right before 2010 and then enthralled by trump since 2016.
FN2. Hamilton County preacher whose only public office, as a board member of the Hamilton East Public Library (“HEPL”) is not listed on his campaign website. 7/13

Footnotes:
FN3. Wren, Adam, “Confessions of an (alleged) book banner,” Importantville, 09/24/2023.
FN4. Volmert, Isabella, “Indiana GOP governor nominee Mike Braun announces his choice for lieutenant governor,” AP, 05/08/24. 8/13

Footnotes:
FN5. “(E.g., Braun’s campaign emails, touting McGuire, were sent to delegates the morning of the convention),” “Blog 24-99,” CDN, 06/16/24.
FN6. The person who asked the question was Dan Carden of NWI. In this blog of 03/22/22, the name of the reporter asking the question was incorrect. 9/13

Footnotes:
FN7. In Loving v Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), SCOTUS unanimously held unconstitutional a criminal statute that carried a sentence for up to one year (in that case) a white man and a black woman being married. 10/13

Footnotes:
FN8. The questions related to whether federal courts overstep their bounds. The reporter cited Loving & its holding and asked if that was improper. Braun said it was and that such laws allow for the expression of individual States. 11/13

Footnotes:
FN9. The relevant questions begin at 16:00. See, Christy, Matt, “Sen. Mike Braun said interracial marriage ruling should be left to states,” FOX59, 03/22/22.
https://fox59.com/indiana-news/sen-mike-braun-said-interracial-marr... 12/13

Footnotes:
FN10. Ind. Const. Art. V, § 21.
FN11. Beckwith looks up to the magaGOP that has shut down the Fed gov’t. 13/13