DIEGO MORALES GOES DOWN IN HISTORY AS INDIANA’S FINAL GOP SECRETARY OF STATE AFTER BANKS AND ROKITA BOTCH THE RACE!

Thank you Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita and US Senator Jim Banks for promoting a criminal candidate for Secretary of State. Indiana Republicans lost because of your incompetence.

INDIANAPOLIS — Mark it down in the Indiana history books right now: Diego Morales is officially the last Republican Secretary of State in Indiana—and the last GOP candidate to ever beat a Democrat statewide for that office!

While establishment power brokers in Washington and Indianapolis are scrambling to point fingers after November’s humiliating statewide wipeout, one undeniable fact stands taller than the Soldiers and Sailors Monument: when Diego Morales was on the ballot in 2022, Republicans won. When the insiders shoved him aside in 2026, Republicans lost a seat they had locked down for 36 straight years!

Diego Morales, Max Engling and Dave Shelton speak at a Republican Event in March 30th.

A Historic Victory Traded Away for a Political Dud

Let’s look at the cold, hard scorecard. In 2022, Diego Morales took on Democrat Destiny Wells and crushed her by nearly 14 percentage points, proving he knew how to rally Hoosier voters and defend a cornerstone GOP office.

Yet instead of standing behind a proven statewide winner, U.S. Senator Jim Banks and Attorney General Todd Rokita decided they knew better than the voters. Ahead of the June 2026 Indiana GOP State Convention, the duo stabbed Morales square in the back, yanking their support and peddling a fairy tale to Hoosier Republicans that Banks’s own senior staffer, Max Engling, was the "safer, stronger" choice to take on Democrat Beau Bayh.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita costed Republicans a Statewide seat by not vetting his pick.

Hoosiers Were Sold a Lie

Banks and Rokita looked Hoosier delegates and voters in the eye and swore up and down that Engling was the ticket to victory while smearing Morales over contracts that were completely legal when signed.

And what happened when the actual voters went to the polls on November 3?

US Senator Jim Banks costed Republicans a Statewide seat by not vetting his pick.

Engling got blown out by Beau Bayh by more than nine points!

The "sure thing" promised by Banks and Rokita collapsed in spectacular fashion, snapping a three-decade Republican winning streak and handing the Secretary of State’s office—and oversight of Indiana’s elections—straight to the Democrats for the first time since 1990.

Thank you Diego Morales for your years of service and public service. We Hoosiers are sorry and will hold Todd Rokita and Jim Banks accountable for this major loss.

The Blame Stops at Banks and Rokita’s Doorstep

You don’t need a political science degree to see who wrecked the GOP’s statewide streak. Todd Rokita and Jim Banks traded away a battle-tested Republican officeholder for a hand-picked Washington insider who couldn't close the deal when it counted.

Now, as Diego Morales prepares to pass the keys to a Democrat in January, he walks away with bragging rights nobody in the Indiana GOP can touch: he was the last Republican to hold the fort, the last Republican to beat a Democrat for the job, and the guy who warned them all along.