BANKS EXPOSED: Indiana’s Biggest RINO Tries to Grift the Midterm Meltdown After His Own Candidates Got Crushed

Rino Jim Banks grifts again.

Jim Banks wants a “frank conversation.”

The Senator from Indiana just dropped a statement calling to delay tomorrow’s Senate Republican leadership elections because the conference needs to talk about “where we fell short” and what they’re going to do for “working families.”

Spare us.

This is the same Jim Banks who spent the year crowning himself the conservative boss of the Indiana GOP. He dumped Diego Morales and shoved his own staffer, Max Engling, down the party’s throat at the state convention. Banks told everyone Engling was the tough election-integrity fighter who would beat the Democrats in November.

Engling lost. Badly. To Beau Bayh.

That wasn’t the only body bag. Republicans watched their House supermajority get cracked. Speaker Todd Huston got taken out. The 5th District flipped. A string of other races went the wrong way. Banks himself called it a “bad night” with “no way to spin it.”

Now he’s first in line demanding accountability and a delay so everyone can sit around and figure out what went wrong.

Hoosiers already know what went wrong. Banks’ preferred candidates got shellacked. The priorities he talks about never got done. And the minute the losses hit, the man who helped pick the slate that failed is suddenly the outsider demanding a reckoning.

It’s the oldest con in politics: talk tough when the base is angry, then show up after the bodies are cold to sell yourself as the guy who saw it coming.

Eric Holcomb was a cautious manager who avoided fights. Banks is worse. He picks the fights for the cameras, backs the candidates who can’t close, and then tries to grift the wreckage into a new chapter for himself. The base sees it. Working Hoosiers didn’t send people to Washington so they could hold post-election therapy sessions after their hand-picked candidates lost.

The midterms were a message. Banks is trying to turn that message into his next career move. Don’t buy it.