He is actually a leftist Dim, always Has Been.
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"BREAKING: U.S. Senate candidate John Rust removed from Republican primary ballot by Indiana Election Commission.
"Unanimous decision found Rust didn't meet state's two-primary voting requirement that he's fought in court.
"Vote leaves Jim Banks as the only GOP candidate."
As alluded to by Davies, Indiana has a statute that requires candidates to have voted in the past two primary elections of the party they seek to represent, or obtain certification from a county party chair, to qualify for the ballot.
Rust, a wealthy egg farmer, did vote in Indiana's 2016 GOP primary, but before that voted in the state's Democratic primaries in 2012, 2010, 2008, and 2006.
There doesn't appear to be any record of his voting in the 2004 cycle or earlier until 1996, which was the last time he voted in a Republican primary contest.
The Indiana Capital Chronicle reported ruled that the bipartisan four-member Indiana Election Commission voted unanimously to bar Rust from appearing on the upcoming May GOP primary ballot as a Republican U.S. Senate candidate.
He was banned because of the rule stipulating that the two most recent votes in primary elections must be for the same party a candidate was running for.
https://slaynews.com/news/conservative-us-senate-candidate-blocked-indiana-gop-primary-ballot-exposed-democrat/