On Tuesday, Republicans in Indiana nominated a woman who has been dead for two months to take on incumbent Democratic Rep. André Carson.
Public relations specialist Jennifer Pace won a crowded primary in the state’s 7th congressional district with more than 31% of the vote, according to Decision Desk HQ. But according to several reports, Pace — who also ran for the seat in 2022 — died of a heart attack in early March.
According to a Ballotpedia candidate survey, Pace’s platform included limiting government interference, parental rights, and addressing inflation.
“My parents instilled that limiting government overreach has always been the Republican way to protect individual freedom, rights and equality of which I’m committed to doing,” Pace wrote in the survey.
It remains unclear who will actually be the GOP nominee in the Indianapolis-based House seat. Under state law, local precinct committee members meet to select a new nominee when the current nominee dies.
But it’s also somewhat beside the point — Carson, who’s served in the House since 2008, has won with more than 60% of the vote since 2016.
This isn’t the first time something like this has happened.
In fact, there are several instances of dead candidates winning not just primaries, but general elections.
Two famous examples include Rep. Nick Begich in 1972 and Gov. Mel Carnahan in 2000, both of whom won elections in their respective states of Alaska and Missouri after dying in plane crashes.
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Democrats don’t care if a candidate is dead or alive, legal or illegal, smart or stupid, a murderer or just a crook, just so they have the ‘D’ after the name that guarantees lifetime Welfare/S.S.I. for 20s years old junkies…
I hate to hit you with reality, but the states with the largest percentage of welfare recipients and under the poverty line are southern red states
Also, the states that contribute the most to the federal coffer are mostly blue states
Also, In all fairness, it was not democrats who nominated a person just because she had an R next to her name……BUT she had no pulse.
On the other hand considering that current Republicans have no spines and do whatever the Orange God wants them to do….a dead congresswoman works fine
Every day I try incredibly hard to not call current Republicans idiots and stupid. And them they go and because she has an R next to her name, they nominate somebody who has been dead for two months…..making my life more difficult to be civil…..
I know that calling them names, deserving or not, does not make them more inclined to open their minds and learn something…..BUT Jesus, give me a break !!!
I also remember when Republicans values included law and order, respect the Constitution and elections and the peaceful transfer of power, stand up to bullies like Putin, free trade and respect for those that disagreed with you…….and then go and nominate a moronic decrepit, rapist as a candidate for POTUS that want to do away with the Constitution and the rule of Law