DIEGO’S REVENGE: MORALES GETS THE LAST LAUGH AS BANKS AND ROKITA’S "GOLDEN CHILD" CRASHES AND BURNS!

Diego Morales gets the last laugh at Rino Jim Banks and Todd Rokita.

INDIANAPOLIS — Karma just served up a piping hot plate of political payback in the Hoosier State—and incumbent Secretary of State Diego Morales is sitting back enjoying every single bite!

For months, U.S. Senator Jim Banks and Attorney General Todd Rokita paraded around Indiana whispering in the ears of party insiders, swearing up and down that Morales was damaged goods who couldn't beat Democrat Beau Bayh in November. Their grand master plan? Knife Morales in the back right before the June 2026 Indiana GOP State Convention, dump their endorsements, and force-feed delegates their hand-picked "golden child"—Banks’s own senior staffer, Max Engling.

Well, November 3 came and went, and how did that master plan work out for the establishment puppeteers?

Total disaster.

Engling didn't just lose to Beau Bayh—he got crushed by more than nine percentage points, handing Indiana Democrats their first Secretary of State victory since 1990 and their first statewide win since 2012! Turns out, the guy Banks and Rokita promised was the "safe bet" couldn't even keep a three-decade Republican stronghold red.

The Big "No-Bid" Smear

To justify tossing a sitting Republican overboard, Banks, Rokita, and the mainstream press spent months hammering Morales over millions of dollars in no-bid contracts issued by his office. They acted like Morales had pulled off the heist of the century to convince delegates he was unelectable.

Here is the kicker we fact-checked: Morales’s contracts were completely legal and in full compliance with Indiana state procurement laws at the time they were signed! The legislature didn't even pass Senate Enrolled Act 5—the law banning those types of non-public, no-bid agency contracts—until 2025, well after those deals were ink-dried and operating under the old rules. Once the new law kicked in on July 1, 2025, Morales's office shifted straight to public bidding.

Delegates Got Played—And Voters Won't Forget

Back in June in Fort Wayne, Morales stood his ground and warned the roughly 1,800 Indiana GOP State Delegates that party bosses were pulling a fast one to install an insider. Instead of listening to the guy who actually won statewide in 2022, the delegates swallowed the establishment's scare tactics hook, line, and sinker, booting Morales in favor of Engling.

The result? The delegates got played, the GOP lost a critical statewide office for the first time in 36 years, and Diego Morales gets to watch the whole dumpster fire from the sidelines with the ultimate "I told you so."

Karma truly is a bitch—and it’s going to be even funnier the next time Todd Rokita and Jim Banks put their names on a ballot and Hoosier voters remember who really sold them a bill of goods!