Seven Republican state senators battle for re-election against candidates backed by Donald Trump
Indiana voters go to the polls today in a test of Republican staying power after the party’s state lawmakers resisted Donald Trump’s bruising campaign to pressure them into redrawing the congressional districts.
The vote has turned into a statewide referendum on political retribution.
Seven state senators who voted against Trump’s mid-decade redistricting push now face challengers endorsed by the president, who said that “every one of these people should be ‘primaried’” after the effort failed.
Trump-aligned dark money groups have spent upwards of $7m on TV ads in Indiana this year, according to a tally from AdImpact – the majority spent targeting Republicans who allied themselves with Democrats in the December redistricting vote.
