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Indiana Rep. Victoria Spartz will win her hard-fought Republican main for her fifth District seat primarily based within the northeastern Indianapolis suburbs Tuesday, CNN initiatives.
Spartz, who in 2023 said she wouldn’t search reelection, reversed her resolution simply earlier than February’s submitting deadline. She confronted eight challengers, included state Rep. Chuck Goodrich, a businessman who had introduced his marketing campaign a month earlier and outspent Spartz.
The Ukrainian-born Spartz was an early advocate for US assist for the nation in opposition to Russia’s unprovoked invasion. However final month, she voted in opposition to a $95 billion international help package deal that included $61 billion in backing for Ukraine. She forged that vote as Goodrich aired tv adverts accusing Spartz of placing “Ukraine first.”
Spartz’s marketing campaign, in the meantime, aired TV adverts claiming Goodrich “places China first to get wealthy.” The advert claims Goodrich voted to permit Chinese language firms to purchase Indiana farmland. Goodrich truly voted in favor of a measure banning such purchases, which handed on near-unanimous votes this yr. The measure permits firms to resume leases made earlier than July 1, 2024, which Spartz’s marketing campaign instructed The Indianapolis Star is a “loophole.”
Spartz first received the fifth District seat in 2020, when Democratic good points in suburbs made it a battleground. However the redistricting course of, managed by Indiana’s Republican-dominated state legislature, turned the seat into protected GOP territory.