Trump flexes clout against Indiana foes as affordability and deportation headwinds grow
What's the endgame here?
President Donald Trump is jumping into Indiana’s Republican primaries to purge foes of his redistricting push — a show of force inside the GOP even as his administration works to shore up softening public support for its handling of the economy and deportations.
The endorsements amount to a test of Trump’s political clout at a moment when allies privately acknowledge he has little room for error heading into the midterm elections.
Last year, state Republican lawmakers rankled the president by refusing to redraw Indiana’s congressional map. An updated map that, in theory, would have added multiple Republican-leaning districts to the U.S. House of Representatives, passed the state House before Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray and 20 other Republicans voted with Democrats to kill it in the state Senate.
At the time, the president vowed to back primary challengers to the Republican defectors. Trump made good on that threat earlier this week. As of Tuesday afternoon, Trump had endorsed three primary challengers: state Rep. Michelle Davis, Bluffton City Council member Blake Fiechter, and Tipton County Commissioner Tracey Powell.
The president accused all three of their opponents, state Sens. Greg Walker, Travis Holdman, and Jim Buck, of being RINOs: Republicans in name only.
“Buck and his RINO friends made Indiana, a State I love and have been very good to, the only State in the Country that essentially said they don’t care if Democrats steal Republican House seats to take over the United States Congress,” the president wrote in a statement posted to Truth Social on Monday night. “We could have easily picked up two seats in Indiana, helping Democrat seat theft in Blue States, but instead, Buck, an America Last politician, would rather give away our Majority in the House of Representatives, thereby putting our Country in a very dangerous position that could cost us some of the magnificent gains that we have made over the last year.”
Trump’s endorsements will undoubtedly throw a wrench into the little-watched local elections. One senior Republican official familiar with the inner workings of Trump’s political organization told the Washington Examiner that the president’s endorsements could help funnel major donations to the challenger campaigns. That aide would not say whether Trump planned to devote any of his campaign war chest to the Indiana races. Federal Election Commission records showed that MAGA Inc., the president’s primary super PAC, …
What's the endgame here?
President Donald Trump is jumping into Indiana’s Republican primaries to purge foes of his redistricting push — a show of force inside the GOP even as his administration works to shore up softening public support for its handling of the economy and deportations.
The endorsements amount to a test of Trump’s political clout at a moment when allies privately acknowledge he has little room for error heading into the midterm elections.
Last year, state Republican lawmakers rankled the president by refusing to redraw Indiana’s congressional map. An updated map that, in theory, would have added multiple Republican-leaning districts to the U.S. House of Representatives, passed the state House before Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray and 20 other Republicans voted with Democrats to kill it in the state Senate.
At the time, the president vowed to back primary challengers to the Republican defectors. Trump made good on that threat earlier this week. As of Tuesday afternoon, Trump had endorsed three primary challengers: state Rep. Michelle Davis, Bluffton City Council member Blake Fiechter, and Tipton County Commissioner Tracey Powell.
The president accused all three of their opponents, state Sens. Greg Walker, Travis Holdman, and Jim Buck, of being RINOs: Republicans in name only.
“Buck and his RINO friends made Indiana, a State I love and have been very good to, the only State in the Country that essentially said they don’t care if Democrats steal Republican House seats to take over the United States Congress,” the president wrote in a statement posted to Truth Social on Monday night. “We could have easily picked up two seats in Indiana, helping Democrat seat theft in Blue States, but instead, Buck, an America Last politician, would rather give away our Majority in the House of Representatives, thereby putting our Country in a very dangerous position that could cost us some of the magnificent gains that we have made over the last year.”
Trump’s endorsements will undoubtedly throw a wrench into the little-watched local elections. One senior Republican official familiar with the inner workings of Trump’s political organization told the Washington Examiner that the president’s endorsements could help funnel major donations to the challenger campaigns. That aide would not say whether Trump planned to devote any of his campaign war chest to the Indiana races. Federal Election Commission records showed that MAGA Inc., the president’s primary super PAC, …
Trump flexes clout against Indiana foes as affordability and deportation headwinds grow
What's the endgame here?
President Donald Trump is jumping into Indiana’s Republican primaries to purge foes of his redistricting push — a show of force inside the GOP even as his administration works to shore up softening public support for its handling of the economy and deportations.
The endorsements amount to a test of Trump’s political clout at a moment when allies privately acknowledge he has little room for error heading into the midterm elections.
Last year, state Republican lawmakers rankled the president by refusing to redraw Indiana’s congressional map. An updated map that, in theory, would have added multiple Republican-leaning districts to the U.S. House of Representatives, passed the state House before Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray and 20 other Republicans voted with Democrats to kill it in the state Senate.
At the time, the president vowed to back primary challengers to the Republican defectors. Trump made good on that threat earlier this week. As of Tuesday afternoon, Trump had endorsed three primary challengers: state Rep. Michelle Davis, Bluffton City Council member Blake Fiechter, and Tipton County Commissioner Tracey Powell.
The president accused all three of their opponents, state Sens. Greg Walker, Travis Holdman, and Jim Buck, of being RINOs: Republicans in name only.
“Buck and his RINO friends made Indiana, a State I love and have been very good to, the only State in the Country that essentially said they don’t care if Democrats steal Republican House seats to take over the United States Congress,” the president wrote in a statement posted to Truth Social on Monday night. “We could have easily picked up two seats in Indiana, helping Democrat seat theft in Blue States, but instead, Buck, an America Last politician, would rather give away our Majority in the House of Representatives, thereby putting our Country in a very dangerous position that could cost us some of the magnificent gains that we have made over the last year.”
Trump’s endorsements will undoubtedly throw a wrench into the little-watched local elections. One senior Republican official familiar with the inner workings of Trump’s political organization told the Washington Examiner that the president’s endorsements could help funnel major donations to the challenger campaigns. That aide would not say whether Trump planned to devote any of his campaign war chest to the Indiana races. Federal Election Commission records showed that MAGA Inc., the president’s primary super PAC, …
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