President Donald Trump looks on, as he signs an executive order on AI in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on Thursday. Al Drago/Reuters

Whether the Indiana state legislature voted to draw two additional Republican-leaning congressional districts, as President Donald Trump wanted, was unlikely to be the decisive factor in the 2026 midterm elections.

But just as Trump’s dominance over his party was looking to be somewhat in doubt in recent weeks, he picked a battle to reestablish it.

He chose very wrongly.

In the end, the situation in Indiana demonstrated quite the opposite of what Trump intended. Indeed, the state Senate’s rejection of his redistricting push wound up being one of the most significant GOP rebukes of Trump to date, and at a particularly inausp

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