Diego Morales Loses Delegate Race Ahead of Indiana GOP Convention, Raising New Questions About Party Support

Let’s talk about what I think should actually be the biggest story, and that is that Diego Morales went down in his delegate election last night, which means he can’t vote for himself at the convention. So for those of you, most of you are voters, so you know, at the back of your ballot whether you pulled a Republican or a Democrat ballot, that you got asked to vote for delegates to the state convention. And these are the people that vote on things like the party platform. They vote on the candidates for statewide office, the big one on the Republicans, I think the only challenged office is secretary of state, and it’ll be David Shelton and it’ll be Diego Morales. And so you have all these people running. And in Indianapolis, like many other places, they’re done by district. Diego, I guess, has finally figured out where he actually lives because you’re like, what? What is he talking about? Don’t forget Diego Morales when he was running for Congress. Diego wanted to be in office. He doesn’t care what office he’s actually in. He just wanted to be in an office. He tried to run for secretary of state, realized he couldn’t beat Connie Lawson. This was back in 2018. Then he decided, okay, I can’t beat Connie Lawson, I’ll run for Congress. He lived in Indianapolis, but he knew he couldn’t beat Andre Carson, so he said he was going to run in the Fourth Congressional District, which is the western part of the state. But he didn’t live there, but he wanted to vote for himself. So despite taking his homestead credit, which is where you live, you guys who pay property tax, you know, you file that homestead credit. Homestead, it is what it says, right? Homestead. That’s where you live. Despite filing a homestead credit in Marion County, Diego Morales somehow voted, I believe it was in Plainfield. No one’s ever been able to answer how that happened.

Diego Morales’ Delegate Election Loss Signals Weakness Ahead of GOP Convention

So I guess Diego’s finally figured out he does indeed live in Indianapolis because he was on the ballot for Indianapolis voters to pick delegates. And I’ve not checked the final tally, Abdul said as of the last time, which I think all the votes are in, in those districts, he was 12th out of 18. 18 people running for these delegate positions, and Diego Morales, the sitting secretary of state, got 12th. His wife did even worse. You know, his wife, who sometimes goes on these mysterious trips with. Yeah, she did even worse.

Questions About Residency and Past Political Campaigns Continue to Follow Morales

And to me, I’m looking at this going, why are more people not talking about this? We’re pulling the curtain back on what this guy actually is and what he’s not protected by the party and more importantly, the money of the party. How people actually view him. See, this is what’s happened with Diego, and I’ve said this for years. Follow the money. People like Banks and Rokita and the establishment of the Republican Party protect Diego because of the money. If you look at the money that touches Diego Morales, it touches so many of these other Republican politicians. Why will they endorse him? Why will they stand behind him? Why will they give him money? They know what he is. Rokita fired Diego from the office when he was secretary of state. Rokita knows what an incompetent, ridiculous buffoon Diego Morales is. The paperwork shows it. You guys know this, right? That when Rokita was Secretary of State, Diego worked for him, and paperwork shows Rokita fired Diego. Paperwork shows Diego went back when Charlie White became secretary of state and was about to get fired again before he quit. Diego Morales is beyond description levels of incompetence. Everybody knows it. Everybody knows what an unethical, likely corrupt joke this guy is who disappears to a foreign country for ten days and won’t tell you who paid for it. Oh, let me rephrase that. Then Diego came back and said, I paid for India. I’ll pay.

Ethics Controversies and Financial Questions Surround Indiana Secretary of State

I will never forget that, guys. And this is a great example. So most of you know, I went to the Clay County Lincoln Day, I was invited, I went, Diego was there. I went up and had the conversation with him. Nobody else will, but I did. He had a complete meltdown in front of everyone. And then because he knew he had the meltdown, because he can’t answer the question, who paid for the trip to India. By the way, how ridiculous is that? A sitting statewide office holder disappeared to a foreign country for ten days. Won’t tell you what he did there, won’t tell you who paid for it. Then bizarrely, months later comes out and goes, I paid the money back. Okay, who’d you pay it to? I paid for India. I pay at Clay County. After he had the meltdown in front of everybody, he got up to give a speech and he started shouting more about it. This guy’s dirty as hell and everybody knows it. And yet the power structure of the Republican Party protects Diego Morales because of money. It’s why they banned me from the Hendricks County Lincoln Day dinner, because they knew it was going to be Clay County 2.0. And they know once I get ahold of these people and it’s in public, he’s going to melt down the same reason they didn’t want me asking Micah Beckwith how he ended up at the NBA finals with a high profile known felon whose life and criminal career reads like a CVS receipt.

Republican Party Leadership Faces Criticism for Continuing to Back Morales

They don’t want better people. They want the money and they want the power. So they just cut you out. They make me to be the bad guy. We can’t have him asking Diego who paid for the trip because Diego will melt down. They should all be demanding to know who paid for the trip, the no bid contracts, the people who give to his campaign, the hiring of family members, the raises, the filming of the commercial using state resources for his campaign, the car, all of this stuff. The people hate him and we saw it yesterday. He couldn’t even win a delegate race to go vote for himself at convention. We were told by Rokita and Banks and all of these people about how beloved Diego is. Oh, Diego, he’s doing a hell of a job. Apparently, the people who can vote on him think he’s doing a horrible job. Look, there’s a huge part of me that is cheering for Diego to win at that convention, because that will be best for our show. That will be awesome for our show. If Diego wins, getting five months, six months of being able to talk about Diego with Greg Ballard likely on the ballot and Beau Bayh, that was going to accomplish so many things that I want. The only way to fix the Republican Party is for them to start losing elections.