Hollingsworth brings in more outside aid from Speaker Ryan to help his struggling carpetbagging campaign
As local television station WHAS11 reported that his race with Monroe County Councilwoman Shelli Yoder is “closer than he would like,” Tennessee Trey Hollingsworth is shipping in more outside help in an attempt to boost his struggling carpetbagging campaign.
Tennessee Trey is already getting hundreds of thousands of dollars in help from his dad’s super PAC over in Tennessee, and now he’s shipping in Speaker Paul Ryan from Washington, DC, where Trey lived for years.
This comes after Meet the Press named Indiana’s 9th District race as one of the top three congressional races to watch in the country, and an October poll showing Yoder and Hollingsworth in a dead heat.
Taking notice, local and national racewatchers have moved this race in Yoder’s favor, including Cook Political Report and Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball. Howey Politics Indiana now considers the race a pure toss-up:
“Yoder is clearly the superior candidate…and is generating intense enthusiasm among the Democratic faithful in Southern Indiana. She is a natural with a unique way to connect to everyday Hoosiers. Her campaign commercials tout that “Shelli is one of us” — a claim Hollingsworth has no way of making credibly.
In fact, Hollingsworth is a flawed candidate. He moved to Indiana from Tennessee a year ago because he calculated that an open seat in a district with multiple and expensive media markets would provide him – a self-funding candidate – the best chance to win.”
“It’s clear Tennessee Trey Hollingsworth has only lived in Indiana for a year, because he still doesn’t understand Hoosier values,” said Sacha Haworth of the DCCC. “This race is ‘closer than he would like’ because Hoosiers are thoroughly rejecting Tennessee Trey and his father’s blatant and arrogant attempts to buy this seat in Congress while having owed Indiana taxpayers $90,000.”
Watch WHAS11’s segment here.