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Indiana’s May 5 primary election tested President Donald Trump’s influence after he endorsed several state Senate candidates seeking to unseat Republican incumbents who had previously broken ranks with him by opposing a redistricting map.
At least six out of the eight Indiana Senate challengers endorsed by Trump won their respective primary elections on Tuesday, most with significant leads.
A ‘big night for MAGA in Indiana.’
Twenty-one GOP state senators voted with their Democrat colleagues in December to block a new congressional map that would have created two more Republican-leaning districts and potentially strengthened the GOP’s control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The effort failed in a 31-19 vote, despite Trump’s warnings that he would target Republicans in the upcoming primary election who voted against it.
Republicans who voted against the redistricting effort and who were seeking re-election in the May primary included:
- James Buck (District 21)
- Spencer Deery (District 23)
- Dan Dernulc (District 1)
- Greg Goode (District 38)
- Travis Holdman (District 19)
- Rick Niemeyer (District 6)
- Linda Rogers (District 11)
- Greg Walker (District 41)