Trump flexes clout against Indiana foes as affordability and deportation headwinds grow

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