{"id":73139,"date":"2026-05-06T12:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/indiana-shows-republicans-have-two-choices-align-with-trump-or-get-ousted\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:03:03","slug":"indiana-shows-republicans-have-two-choices-align-with-trump-or-get-ousted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/indiana-shows-republicans-have-two-choices-align-with-trump-or-get-ousted\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana shows Republicans have two choices: align with Trump or get ousted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though Trump\u2019s popularity has dwindled, staying loyal to him seems to still be a winning strategy among the GOP<\/p>\n<p>By just about every measure, Donald Trump\u2019s sway with US voters has slipped since he won re-election two years ago, but there\u2019s one place where his power remains unmatched: within the Republican party.<\/p>\n<p>The latest evidence of his ability to control who\u2019s in and who\u2019s out in the GOP came on Tuesday, when primary voters in Indiana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/05\/indiana-republicans-donald-trump\">ousted<\/a> five of seven state senators who had last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/11\/indiana-republicans-redistricting\">defied the president\u2019s demand<\/a> to redraw the state\u2019s congressional maps and gerrymander the state\u2019s last two Democratic representatives out of their seats.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/06\/repbulicans-loyal-trump-indiana-primary-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Trump\u2019s popularity has dwindled, staying loyal to him seems to still be a winning strategy among the GOP By just about every measure, Donald Trump\u2019s sway with US voters has slipped since he won re-election two years ago, but there\u2019s one place where his power remains unmatched: within the Republican party. The latest evidence &#8230; <a title=\"Indiana shows Republicans have two choices: align with Trump or get ousted\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/indiana-shows-republicans-have-two-choices-align-with-trump-or-get-ousted\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Indiana shows Republicans have two choices: align with Trump or get ousted\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}