2026年5月5日 / 美国东部时间晚上11:31 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
当地时间周二，特朗普总统推动罢免几位违抗其选区重划计划的印第安纳州共和党议员的举措基本取得成功。
据美联社预测，去年投票反对该州众议院选区重新划分方案的五名印第安纳州州参议员在周二的共和党初选中落败，被特朗普背书的初选挑战者取代。另有一名获得特朗普支持的候选人在一个空缺席位的共和党初选中获胜，该席位的前共和党议员因反对选区重划决定不再寻求连任。
一名州参议员在特朗普背书的初选挑战中存活了下来。周二晚些时候，另一场由反对选区重划的共和党议员与特朗普背书候选人之间的初选尚未决出胜者，两名候选人的票数差距极其微弱。
这场州议会的报复性竞选是对特朗普先生在其政党影响力的一次考验，这类选举通常关注度极低，总统级别的干预几乎闻所未闻——同时也凸显了特朗普对全美范围内选区重划争夺战的强烈兴趣。
在争夺美国众议院控制权的竞赛中，特朗普推动了德克萨斯州的选区重划方案，以帮助共和党拿下更多席位。这引发了全美各州政府内民主党与共和党之间的全面争斗，包括特朗普2024年以19个百分点优势获胜的印第安纳州。
白宫积极拉拢印第安纳州共和党人，该州共和党州长迈克·布劳恩支持一项能让共和党在该州全部9个国会选区中占据优势的方案，从而击败两名民主党候选人。该方案在州众议院获得通过。
但该方案在州参议院遭遇反对，州参议院议长罗德里克·布雷表示，即便共和党拥有40比10的绝对多数席位，该方案也缺乏足够票数通过。法案在全院投票中失败，包括布雷在内的21名共和党议员投下了反对票。
这些投反对票的议员提出了多方面反对理由，既有道德层面的（部分人认为这会开创恶劣先例），也有实际层面的（其他人警告称，在形势艰难的年份，共和党未必能拿下全部9个众议院席位）。布雷周二接受美国有线电视新闻网采访时表示，共和党核心小组在选区重划问题上“分歧相当平均”，但最终认定“这不是印第安纳州前进的正确方式”。
鲍尔州立大学教授查德·金塞拉在周二初选前接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时，谈及该方案未能在州参议院通过的原因时表示：“我认为印第安纳州民众不喜欢选区不公正划分。”
“最终，我认为选区不公正划分在印第安纳州并不吃香，”金塞拉补充道，“我认为那些议员还担心他们无法向选民交代，担心选民不会接受这种做法。”
特朗普猛烈抨击违抗他的共和党议员，并誓言要报复。
他在周二八场有竞争的选战中背书候选人，在Truth Social的多篇帖文中指责这些在任议员背叛了选民，称他们“可悲”、“无能”以及“RINO”，即“名义上的共和党人”。在一位支持选区重划的在任议员的席位竞选中，他未发布背书；而在11个支持新选区方案的在任议员的竞选中，他均予以背书。
除了总统的背书支持，盟友团体也为挑战者提供了资金支持。布雷周二估计，有900万美元资金来自州外。作为回报，印第安纳州参议院共和党核心小组在本次初选中的投入超过了2022年全年的总支出。
据追踪公司AdImpact统计，本次印第安纳州参议院初选周期内的广告总支出约为1350万美元，而两年前这一数字还不到30万美元。
早在选区重划投票前，一些投票反对重划的州参议员就报告称自己遭到了人肉搜索和骚扰。
特朗普还在1月誓言：“我们要追着布雷不放，前所未有的那种！”印第安纳州的全州选举是分批进行的，因此布雷要到2028年才面临连任，但他的领导职位可能因周二的选举结果而岌岌可危。
“事情就是这样，”布雷周二在被问及特朗普扬言要找他麻烦时对美国有线电视新闻网说道。尽管自去年12月以来，选区重划之争已经发生了诸多变化，但布雷表示，他对投票结果“毫无悔意”。
“印第安纳州将按照印第安纳州需要的方式行事，”布雷说道。
特朗普在印第安纳州的盟友对周二的选举结果表示赞赏。州长布劳恩称这是“印第安纳州具有历史意义的一晚”，共和党参议员吉姆·班克斯在X平台上写道，他“为帮助选出更多保守派共和党人进入印第安纳州参议院而感到自豪”。
周二在初选中落败的议员之一是州参议员特拉维斯·霍尔德曼，他是资深在任议员，担任共和党领导层的多数党核心小组主席。
在选举后的简短发言中，获得特朗普背书的挑战者布雷克·菲彻特感谢霍尔德曼18年来的服务。他承诺将“翻开新的一页”，代表该选区的所有选民，该选区覆盖印第安纳州东部大片区域，包括布拉夫顿市和韦恩堡的部分地区。
霍尔德曼在接受《印第安纳波利斯星报》采访时坚持自己在选区重划问题上的投票立场，并表示并未对结果感到怨恨。他表示，自己从失败中得到的教训是：“报复和复仇不是基督教的价值观。”
Trump largely succeeds in upending Indiana state Senate over redistricting
May 5, 2026 / 11:31 PM EDT / CBS News
President Trump’s gambit to push out of office several of the Indiana Republicans who defied his redistricting efforts appeared to largely succeed on Tuesday.
Five of the Indiana state senators who voted against redrawing the state’s House maps last year lost their Republican primaries on Tuesday, ousted by Trump-endorsed primary challengers, The Associated Press projected. A sixth Trump-supported candidate also won the GOP primary in an open seat where a Republican who rejected redistricting decided not to run for reelection.
One senator survived a primary challenge backed by the president on Tuesday. One primary between an anti-redistricting Republican and a Trump endorsee did not have a projected winner as of late Tuesday, with the two candidates separated by a razor-thin margin.
The Statehouse revenge campaign served as a test of Mr. Trump’s influence over his party in a set of normally low-profile races where Oval Office intervention is virtually unheard of — and highlighted Mr. Trump’s intense interest in the nationwide redistricting scramble.
In the race to control the U.S. House, Mr. Trump pushed through a redistricting plan in Texas to favor Republicans in more seats. This led to an all-out battle among Democrats and Republicans in state governments across the country, including Indiana, where Mr. Trump won by 19 points in 2024.
The White House aggressively courted Indiana Republicans, and the state’s GOP Gov. Mike Braun endorsed a map that would have given the GOP an advantage in all nine of the state’s congressional districts, edging out two Democrats. The map passed the state House of Representatives.
But it faced opposition in the Senate, with state Senate President Rodric Bray saying it didn’t have the votes to pass, despite the Republicans having a 40-10 supermajority. The legislation failed in a floor vote, with 21 Republicans — including Bray — voting against it.
The holdouts offered a range of objections, both moral (some said they viewed it as a bad precedent) and practical (others warned that Republicans won’t necessarily win all nine House seats in a tough year). Bray told CNN on Tuesday the GOP caucus was “fairly evenly split” on the redistricting issue, but decided “it wasn’t the right way for Indiana to move forward.”
Ball State University professor Chad Kinsella told CBS News ahead of Tuesday’s primary, when discussing why the map didn’t pass the state Senate: “I think it’s Hoosiers don’t like gerrymandering.”
“Ultimately, I think that gerrymandering just doesn’t play well in Indiana,” Kinsella added. “I think those people were also concerned that they couldn’t go back home and that their constituents would be OK with that.”
Mr. Trump lashed out at the Republicans who defied him — and vowed vengeance.
He backed candidates in eight contested races Tuesday, accusing the incumbents of betraying their voters in a set of Truth Social posts in which he called them “pathetic,” “incompetent” and RINOs, or “Republicans In Name Only.” He did not issue an endorsement in one seat where the incumbent backed redistricting, and he endorsed 11 incumbents who voted for the new map.
Along with the president’s endorsements came money from allied groups for the challengers, with Bray estimating on Tuesday that $9 million had come from out of state. In return, the Indiana Senate Republican Caucus has dumped more money into the race than was spent in all of 2022.
All told, tracking firm AdImpact tallied some $13.5 million in ad spending in the Indiana State Senate primaries this cycle, compared to just under $300,000 two years ago.
Even before the redistricting vote, some of the state senators who voted against redistricting reported being doxxed and harassed.
Mr. Trump also vowed in January: “We’re after you Bray, like no one has ever come after you before!” Indiana has staggered statewide elections, so Bray is not up for reelection until 2028, but his leadership position could be in jeopardy with the results of Tuesday’s election.
“It is what it is,” Bray told CNN Tuesday about Mr. Trump’s vow to come after him. Although a lot has changed in the redistricting wars since December, Bray said he has “no regrets” over the vote’s outcome.
“Indiana’s going to do things the way Indiana needs to do them,” Bray said.
Mr. Trump’s allies in Indiana applauded Tuesday’s results. Braun, the governor, called it a “historic night for Indiana,” and Republican Sen. Jim Banks wrote on X that he was “proud to have helped elect more conservative Republicans to the Indiana State Senate.”
One of the lawmakers to lose their primary on Tuesday was state Sen. Travis Holdman, a longtime incumbent who serves in GOP leadership as majority caucus chair.
In brief remarks after the election, Trump-endorsed challenger Blake Fiechter thanked Holdman for his 18 years of service. He promised that he’s “ready to turn the page” and represent everybody in the district, which covers a swath of eastern Indiana including the city of Bluffton and part of Fort Wayne.
Holdman stood by his vote on redistricting in an interview with the Indianapolis Star, and said he wasn’t bitter about the outcome. He said his takeaway from his loss was: “Revenge and retribution is not a Christian value.”