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Voters wait in line to cast their ballots during early voting in Carmel, Indiana, in 2020. | Michael Conroy/AP Photo
HOOSIER HOPEFULS A mayoral primary in the otherwise politically sleepy, tony Indianapolis suburb of Carmel suddenly hit the big time this week.
Some of the biggest names in national politics including former Vice President Mike Pence and former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain took an interest in this city of 100,000, situated in one of the fastest growing and most educated counties in the nation.
Over the years, this suburb of lush and well-kept lawns, McMansions, and gated communities navigated by golf carts has become the place Republican vice presidents go to retire. Pence who moved back to Carmel after his vice presidency, joining Dan Quayle who also briefly resided here in the 1990s after his own public service ended voted here in Indianas municipal elections Tuesday, which included the first open mayoral contest in three decades (Republican Jim Brainard, first elected in 1995, announced his retirement last year).
Klain, the Hoosier native who still has family ties to the northern Indianapolis suburb situated in reddish Hamilton County, has been closely watching the race, too. He is in talks with Democratic nominee Miles Nelson about campaigning for him (Klains recently passed mother, Sarann Horwitz Klain, was the former vice chair of the Hamilton County Democratic Party.)
Im all in for Miles Nelson, Klain told me recently, before tweeting about Nelsons win Tuesday evening.
Tuesdays electoral results show in miniature the national Republicans weakening grip on the suburbs. Come November, the race will also be a key post-midterms bellwether for both parties. Democrats made big gains in suburbs nationally in 2018 and 2020.
Nowhere else is that more apparent than Carmel. Slowly, this city has become more diverse and seen an influx of younger, more moderate voters who flock here for its award-winning school system, public art, affordability and culture (its home to a $126 million concert hall drawing national acts like the singer and songwriter Jason Isbell, and boasts more than 138 roundabouts, more than any other city in the U.S.). Students of the public school system speak 65 languages from 55 countries. Though many of its communities are gated, its not been walled-off from social change: Black Lives Matter marches snaked down the Monon Trail in Carmel amid $1 million townhouses and an upscale steakhouse in the summer of 2020.
Young voters from around the country are moving to Carmel, and you know what? Theyre bringing their politics, too, Nelson told me today, just a few days after winning his partys nomination.
Tuesdays electoral results in the Democratic and Republican mayoral primaries saw more than 82 percent of the Republican voters over 50 years old, according to preliminary analysis of voter data by Peter Hanscom, former Sen. Joe Donnellys (D-Ind.) campaign manager and the current Democratic 5th district vice chair.
Thats a gigantic problem for them in the general, Hanscom said. The families with kids dont seem to be on their side.
Donnelly was the first Democrat to win Carmel in his unsuccessful 2018 Senate campaign. A year later, Nelson became the citys first Democratic elected official as a city councilman. In 2020, Biden defeated Trump, who just four years earlier held a packed rally at the concert hall where I saw Isbell perform. And in 2022, Democratic Secretary of State Destiny Wells won here, too.
Our community in particular is much more international than it ever was, said Nelsons Republican challenger, Sue Finkam. With that comes people that dont vote and vote on all different aspects along the spectrum.
Now, the Indiana Democratic Party is eyeing Carmel as a potential pickup this November. Mike Schmuhl, Pete Buttigiegs former campaign manager and the state party chairman, is targeting this suburb in hopes of flipping it blue.
The city has changed a lot, Schmuhl said over lunch today at Fat Dans Chicago Deli in Carmel. This used to be a rock-ribbed, Republican, conservative area but the Republican Party has changed a lot, too. So what you have up in Carmel is a lot of development, a lot of families, educated voters, hard working people, and the Democratic Partys values appeal to those people.
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