Five incumbent Indiana Republican state senators lost their primaries to candidates backed by President Donald Trump and only one survived with one race yet to be called, capping the president’s retribution campaign in the state.
Trump-backed candidates Trevor De Vries, Brian Schmutzler, Blake Fiechter, Tracey Powell, and Michelle Davis defeated state Sens. Dan Dernulc, Linda Rogers, Travis Holdman, Jim Buck, and Greg Walker, respectively, with the race between Trump-backed Paula Copenhaver and state Sen. Spencer Deery still uncalled Tuesday night.
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State Sen. Greg Goode was the lone survivor Tuesday night, fending off a challenge from Trump-backed Brenda Wilson.
Ahead of Tuesday’s contests, Trump had vowed political payback against what he labeled “RINOs,” or Republicans in name only, after the Indiana legislature rejected a Trump-backed redistricting plan. Twenty-one Senate Republicans joined Democrats to block the effort in December.
“Anybody that votes against Redistricting, and the SUCCESS of the Republican Party in D.C., will
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