President Donald Trump's effort to punish Indiana Republicans who defied him over congressional redistricting paid off Tuesday night, as a majority of the GOP state senators targeted by Trump-backed challengers lost their primaries in a striking display of his continued power over the Republican Party.
The May 5 Indiana primary became one of the clearest tests yet of whether Republican lawmakers can survive politically after resisting Trump. The answer, at least in Indiana, was brutal. Several incumbent GOP state senators who opposed Trump's push to redraw the state's congressional map were defeated by challengers he endorsed, reshaping part of the Indiana Senate and sending a national warning to Republicans weighing whether to break with the president.
