The 2016 election is over - Republican Todd Young won the U.S. Senate seat, Republican Eric Holcomb will be our next governor, and the state and the nation elected Donald J. Trump as the next President of the United States.

Today on Noon edition, our guests discussed the motivations, outcomes, and potential consequences of the results of the 2016 elections. Political analysts Timothy Hellwig, Paul Helmke, Andrew Downs, and Margie offered their opinions from the results of the Indiana State House to the House of Congress.

With Eric Holcomb as the new Indiana Governor-elect, many are eager to learn what a Holcomb administration might look like. According to Helmke, Holcomb has already started bringing in people from former Governor Mitch Daniels’ and retiring Senator Dan Coats’ teams.

"He’s going to try to mold himself after some kind of combination of Pence and Daniels," Helmke says.

Helmke says there are a few reasons behind Evan Bayh’s crushing 10 point loss to Todd Young, such as residency issues and a late entrance to the campaign.

“The way he left, apparently he wasn’t thinking about coming back or he would have done it differently," Helmke says.

Hellwig also joined the discussion by giving his opinion on what impact Governor Pence might have in the new Trump administration, saying

“There’s some talk that Donald Trump will have a lot of policies that he won’t care too much to get down on the weeds on, and Pence doesn’t have a strong reputation of being a policy wonk as some as some people, but it doesn’t take much to beat Donald Trump on that ground.”

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Guests:

Timothy Hellwig, Professor of Political Science at Indiana University

Majorie Hershey, Professor of Political Science at Indiana University

Paul Helmke, Director of the Civic Leaders Center at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University

Andrew Downs, Director of the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics at IPFW