One of six Republicans who intend to run in the May 8 primary for the party’s U.S. Senate nomination lunched and listened to RV executives Thursday, then toured a Keystone RV plant.
This story by Roger Schneider originally appeared in the Goshen News.
Luke Messer of Greensburg, Ind., who is the U.S. House representative in District 6, walked through a lamination plant with Keystone CEO Matt Zimmerman as he showed him how RV sidewalls are made.
Sen. Joe Donnelly is the incumbent South Bend Democrat who holds the Senate seat.
The GOP now, in theory, controls the Senate with its 51-seat majority but has been stymied several times in passing laws in Trump’s first year by Democrat Senators and a few Republican defectors. There are 47 Democrats and two independents who caucus with the Democrats, according to the Senate’s website.
Messer said the Indiana Senate election will likely be one of the more important mid-term races in the nation this year.
One of the reasons he visited Goshen, according to Messer, was he wanted to learn about the RV industry, which dominates the local economy.
After the tour, Zimmerman said RV executives met with Messer to talk about issues that are important to the industry, especially the need to find more workers and house them.
The candidate has been a big backer of Trump’s policies and he said many Hoosiers are as well. One of the things the Trump team wants to accomplish is to build a wall along the border with Mexico, something Messer talked about.
