{"id":209866,"date":"2026-05-06T01:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/can-indiana-lawmakers-win-after-defying-the-presidents-vote-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:56:54","slug":"can-indiana-lawmakers-win-after-defying-the-presidents-vote-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/can-indiana-lawmakers-win-after-defying-the-presidents-vote-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Indiana lawmakers win after defying the president\u2019s vote? – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Party\u2019s incumbents had resisted Trump\u2019s bruising campaign to pressure them into redrawing congressional districts
A majority of Indiana Republican legislators whose opponents were backed by Donald Trump<\/a> lost their primaries on Tuesday, giving the president wins in a deep-red state just months after lawmakers there rejected his redistricting plan.
Of the seven Trump-endorsed challengers to state senate candidates, at least four won.
The vote turned into a statewide referendum on political retribution, and a test of Republican staying power after the party\u2019s state lawmakers resisted Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s bruising campaign to pressure them into redrawing the congressional districts.
Seven state senators who voted against Trump\u2019s mid-decade redistricting push faced challengers endorsed by the president, who said<\/a> that \u201cevery one of these people should be \u2018primaried\u2019\u201d after the effort failed.
Trump-aligned dark money groups spent upwards of $7m on TV ads in Indiana this year, according to a tally from AdImpact \u2013 the majority spent targeting Republicans<\/a> who allied themselves with Democrats in the December redistricting vote.
Jim Buck, a state senator from Kokomo, lost to a Trump-backed challenger after 18 years in office.
\u201cWe\u2019ve never had Washington meddle into our elections like they have this time,\u201d Buck told NPR<\/a>. \u201cNow I\u2019ve got over $1m against me in one race.\u201d
One ad<\/a> disparaged the 80-year-old public servant by calling him \u201cold, pathetic, liberal\u201d.
Republicans control seven of Indiana\u2019s nine congressional districts, and the overall balance of power is unlikely to change in this years\u2019 midterm vote. Trump\u2019s redistricting scheme took aim at breaking up Indiana\u2019s first and seventh congressional districts, representing the urban centers of Indianapolis and Gary, where Democrats have consistently held seats.
Party-spending patterns indicate that they expect to hold the seats \u2013 Democratic advertisers make up less than 1% of the $25.5m in ad spending in the Indiana\u2019s 2026 primary contest, AdImpact<\/a> data shows.
Half of Indiana\u2019s 50 state Senate seats and all 100 state House seats are up for election in 2026.
Unlike in Indiana, lawmakers in Texas<\/a>, Missouri<\/a>, North Carolina<\/a> and Ohio<\/a> all dutifully passed redistricting measures designed to boost Republican control. Representatives in Alabama and Tennessee have already called for special sessions to discuss redistricting after last week\u2019s landmark supreme court ruling<\/a> paved the way for revisions in Louisiana.
Democrats recently redrew the voting maps in California<\/a>.
In the final days before Indiana\u2019s contentious primary vote, Trump issued a call to his Truth Social followers, and instructed them to vote for a \u201ctrue Maga Warrior\u201d. If they needed help finding the polls, he included a link to voting locations on his party\u2019s campaign engine, \u201cSwamp the Vote\u201d.
Associated Press contributed<\/em><\/p>\n

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Party\u2019s incumbents had resisted Trump\u2019s bruising campaign to pressure them into redrawing congressional districtsA majority of Indiana Republican legislators whose opponents were backed by Donald Trump lost their primaries on Tuesday, giving the president wins in a deep-red state just months after lawmakers there rejected his redistricting plan.Of the seven Trump-endorsed challengers to state senate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-209866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}