The Price of Saying No

Sun, 10 May 2026 06:00:00 -0500

On Tuesday evening in Markle, Indiana, a small town in Huntington County, Travis Holdman watched the returns come in from a primary he had expected to survive. He has held his state Senate seat since 2008. He’s the third-most powerful Republican in the Indiana Senate, the chairman of the Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee, the kind of lawmaker who knows where the decimal points are in the state budget because he put them there. By nine o’clock, his challenger Blake Feichter had taken sixty percent of the vote, and the Associated Press had called the race.

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The Price of Saying No