a warning to officials elsewhere<\/a> in the country who have crossed Mr. Trump, the undisputed leader of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n\u201cDonald Trump maintains his singular ability to catapult candidates from obscurity to Congress or, in this case, the Indiana Statehouse,\u201d said Pete Seat, an Indiana-based veteran of the George W. Bush White House. \u201cThe organizational heft, the messaging acumen and the level of coordination required to pull off this feat cannot be \u2014 and should not be \u2014 underestimated.\u201d<\/p>\n
The results are surely cause for concern for two Republicans who have bucked Mr. Trump in the past and are now facing primary opponents backed by the president: Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.<\/p>\n
Like the newly deposed Indiana Republicans, Mr. Massie and Mr. Cassidy have long histories with their constituents and are known quantities locally. But Tuesday proved once again that in a Republican primary, Mr. Trump\u2019s desires often outweigh whatever local good will candidates have built up.<\/p>\n
Republican voters were split on Trump.<\/p>\n
Indiana voters supported Mr. Trump by large margins in the last three presidential elections. Even still, and even as his preferred candidates racked up victories, Republicans voiced mixed reviews of his second term and were divided about the importance of his endorsement.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is doing what he is supposed to,\u201d Athena Purtlebaugh said after she voted for the president\u2019s candidate in Taylorsville, Ind. \u201cYes, he is coarse sometimes and I cringe, but he is doing the right things.\u201d<\/p>\n
But in Tipton, Ind., Jeff Crouch said that \u201che didn\u2019t want to vote for anybody that was endorsed by President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Crouch, a Republican, said he had voted for Mr. Trump previously, but not in 2024. He described his impression of the president\u2019s second term as \u201csomewhere between terrible and really terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fight for the Indiana G.O.P. continues.<\/p>\n
Indiana Republicans have amassed near-total control of the state over the last 20 years. But the fight over redistricting brought long-simmering fissures into the open.<\/p>\n
The divide is not exactly between moderates and conservatives, but more between the party establishment and an ascendant faction that has modeled its style after the president\u2019s.<\/p>\n
On the one side, the state\u2019s governor, lieutenant governor and many members of the congressional delegation lined up behind Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n
On the other, former Gov. Mitch Daniels, who helped usher in Indiana\u2019s era of Republican dominance, became a leading voice against redistricting. His successor as governor, former Vice President Mike Pence, mostly avoided the redistricting debate, but endorsed one of the incumbents seeking re-election.<\/p>\n
Indiana\u2019s two Democratic congressmen could face inhospitable new maps.<\/p>\n
With so many Trump-backed challengers ousting incumbents who had voted against redistricting, the path appears clearer for drawing new maps before the 2028 elections.<\/p>\n
Because Republicans hold durable majorities in both chambers of the state Legislature, the results from Tuesday\u2019s State Senate primaries made it more likely there would be support for a G.O.P.-friendly redistricting next year.<\/p>\n
It remains unclear how aggressive the new class of Indiana Republicans in the State Senate will be. Democrats hold seats based in Indianapolis, the state capital and largest city, and in the suburban Chicago communities of Northwest Indiana.<\/p>\n
Kim Bellware, Robert Chiarito, Amy Lynch and Kevin Williams contributed reporting from Indiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump vowed political payback last year when Republican state lawmakers in Indiana defied him on redistricting, refusing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":776392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5959,90,2862,239993,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,12325,81210,1054,25224,55750,277,67,586,16852,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-776391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-j","10":"tag-elections","11":"tag-indiana","12":"tag-midterm-elections-2026","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-primaries-and-caucuses","20":"tag-redistricting-and-reapportionment","21":"tag-republican-party","22":"tag-state-legislature","23":"tag-state-legislatures","24":"tag-trump","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-united-states-politics-and-government","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116525559343354780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}