Multi-millionaire and Tennessean Trey Hollingsworth just spent his daddy’s money – literally – to help him buy himself a seat in Congress.
Trey Hollingsworth – who only moved to Indiana in September – not only loaned himself hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure himself a win in yesterday’s primary, but also had his father fund his very own Super PAC, allowing Trey to bash his political opponents on the airwaves without ever leaving his penthouse.
All this has Hoosiers asking, “Who is this Trey guy?” No one can “recall ever seeing him in person.”
“Armed with his daddy’s money and his very own Super PAC, Tennessee Trey will likely continue to be as much of an absentee candidate as he has already proved himself to be,” said Sacha Haworth of the DCCC. “However, Mr. Hollingsworth is mistaken if he believes Hoosiers will let an out-of-state millionaire buy their votes.”
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ICYMI: A Tennessean Just Won an Indiana Congressional Seat
Roll Call
Trey Hollingsworth didn’t live in Indiana a year ago.
But Tuesday night, he was well on his way to becoming the next representative from the 9th District.
Hollingsworth, who moved to the district last fall, tapped into an outsider narrative and his own personal wealth to win a five-way Republican primary in a district that’s rated Safe Republican by the Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report/Roll Call.
He won 34 percent of the vote. State Sen. Erin Houchin — the only woman in the race — came in second with 25 percent of the vote. Attorney General Greg Zoeller trailed them with 22 percent of the vote, followed by state Sen. Brent Waltz with 13 percent of the vote and engineer Robert Hall with 7 percent.
Besides the hundreds of thousands of dollars he donated to his own campaign, Hollingsworth also benefited from a super PAC funded by his father.
Those resources allowed his campaign to dominate the airwaves in the south central Indiana District for months. Ads from the super PAC attacked Zoeller as a career politician.
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But none of the area shop owners and customers who talked to Roll Call last month could recall ever seeing him in person or even hearing about him.
Read the rest of Roll Call’s story here.