President Donald Trump is trying to clear the field of several Indiana Republican state senators who previously opposed a congressional redistricting map by endorsing their challengers in the upcoming May 5 primary election.
In December, 21 Republican state senators joined their Democrat colleagues to block a redrawn congressional map that would have strengthened the GOP's control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
'Anybody that votes against Redistricting, and the SUCCESS of the Republican Party in D.C., will be, I am sure, met with a MAGA Primary in the Spring.'
The new map, which would have created two more Republican-leaning congressional districts, failed in the state Senate in a 31-19 vote.
Trump issued a warning to Republican state senators ahead of the vote, cautioning those who planned to block the map.
"Anybody that votes against Redistricting, and the SUCCESS of the Republican Party in D.C., will be, I am sure, met with a MAGA Primary in the Spring," Trump wrote, adding that he would "do everything within my power to make sure that they will not hurt the Republican Party, and our Country, again."
Trump declared that "every one" of the Republicans in the state Senate who voted against redistricting "should be 'primaried,' and I will be there to help!"
Republicans who voted against redistricting who are seeking re-election in May:
Republican state Senators Eric Bassler (District 39) and Kyle Walker (District 31) also voted against the redistricting map. However, neither is seeking re-election.
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Trump issued his first endorsements of Republican challengers in January, backing Paula Copenhaver against Deery and Brenda Wilson against Goode. He also endorsed Jeff Ellington to take over Bassler's open seat.
Trump described Copenhaver, the Fountain County GOP Chair, as a "MAGA Warrior" and a "terrific Candidate."
"Paula is running against an incompetent and ineffective RINO incumbent named Spencer Deery who, for whatever reason, betrayed his voters by voting against Redistricting in Indiana," the president stated.
Trump called Vigo County Commissioner Wilson a "Proven America First Patriot" and "a Successful Family Farmer," arguing that she would be "a strong and effective Voice for our amazing Farmers and Indiana Agriculture." He criticized Goode as a "RINO" and nicknamed him "No Goode."
The president declared that Ellington, an "American First Patriot," would be "a fantastic replacement for RINO Eric Bassler." He described Ellington as "a Successful Businessman, Retired Firefighter, Horse Farmer, Greene County GOP Chairman, and former State Representative, who has dedicated his life to serving his Community."
Trump issued three additional endorsements in February, supporting Blake Fiechter against Holdman, Tracey Powell against Buck, and Michelle Davis against Walker.
Fiechter is "a very successful Real Estate Broker, Proud Husband, Loving Father to three girls, and a Highly Respected Councilman in the wonderful City of Bluffton," Trump said.
The president described Powell as "a successful Businessman, Chiropractor, Farmer, and Highly Respected Tipton County Commissioner."
Trump contended that Davis, a state representative, has a strong record that includes voting "WITH Republicans to pass Redistricting in the State House."
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On Apr. 7, Trump posted two additional endorsements in his effort to remove Indiana RINOs from their Senate seats. He announced his support for Dr. Brian Schmutzler against Rogers and Trevor De Vries against Dernulc.
"A Proven Leader, Brian serves his Community as a Highly Respected Anesthesiologist and Medical Director," he wrote in a post on social media.
"A Successful Businessman, Trevor knows the America First Policies required to Grow our Economy, Create GREAT Jobs, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., and Unleash American Energy DOMINANCE," Trump said in a separate post.
Gov. Mike Braun (R), who supported the redistricting effort, also endorsed seven Trump-backed candidates: Copenhaver, Davis, De Vries, Fiechter, Powell, Wilson, and Schmutzler.
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Last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted by a federal grand jury on 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering for allegedly using over $3 million in donor funds to secretly pay informants inside extremist groups like the KKK.
On this episode of “Rufo and Lomez,” Christopher Rufo and Jonathan Keeperman, both of whom have been targets of the SPLC, trade stories and discuss the significance of these indictments.
The SPLC, says Rufo, “is this amazing story of the organized left creating this phantasm of the radical right and then fighting that phantasm that they themselves have created.”
The powerful role the SPLC has inhabited on the left, says Keeperman, hinges on telling liberals “who the bad guys are” and thus who they are “allowed to hate.”
But it goes further than just slapping damning labels on conservative individuals and organizations.
If the SPLC targets you, it proceeds to attempt to “ruin your reputation, ruin your ability to earn a living, and then send out [its] goons by proxy and by arms' distance to physically hurt you if you show up anywhere in public,” alleges Rufo, citing the SPLC’s targeting of American political scientist and scholar Charles Murray, who suffered both professionally and personally after the advocacy group labeled him an extremist.
Rufo keenly recalls the first time the SPLC targeted him.
In the early 2020s when he was on his anti-critical race theory campaign, he found himself in the organization’s crosshairs, and it genuinely frightened him.
“I felt the fear,” he admits.
“You have this sense like, OK, I better fight hard because these people are trying to knock me off the board altogether — ruin my reputation, ruin my ability to support my family.”
Rufo’s fight proved successful. “I was able to kind of rebuff those initial challenges and actually kind of boomerang them and turn them into a badge of honor, a fundraising appeal to my supporters. ... I was able to get them to retract certain claims that they were making against me to show in essence that I was able to make them back down,” he recounts.
That was just the first attack though.
Over the last few years, there have been over “a dozen” attacks on Rufo, but they no longer elicit the same fear as the first time.
“You actually develop a kind of immunity through exposure,” he says, calling the recent charges against the SPLC “both shocking and not shocking.”
“It's both a blow to their effectiveness, but it's also just really another nail in the coffin.”
To hear more, watch the full episode above.
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