Life after Trump: Elections show political adjustments as Trump fades from relevance
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
MS NOW, Jen Psaki
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everyone, obviously it is another election night in America. It seems like they're coming all the time now. They're all exciting. They tell us something every time. And there are a number of interesting races happening tonight that have been happening today. We're going to dig into a bunch of them and talk about what they mean for November. And I also talk to some of the candidates who are |
| 0:21.9 | at the center of all of this action. But we just have to start with the state of Indiana, where the |
| 0:27.1 | results of the Republican state senate primaries are still pouring in, and they will still continue to |
| 0:32.5 | pour in through the course of this show. And that is a sentence that I never thought I would have to |
| 0:36.4 | say on this show, because normally a Republican primary election for state, Senate seats in Indiana is really not the kind of |
| 0:42.6 | thing that would be national news. But this is not a normal primary because Donald Trump |
| 0:48.5 | decided to put his political energy and an enormous amount of resources motivated by venom into an effort to oust more |
| 0:57.7 | than a half a dozen Republican state senators who refuse to go along with his plan to rig Indiana's |
| 1:03.2 | congressional map. Now, as of this hour, and again, we're going to keep you update as we learn |
| 1:07.2 | more. Four of Trump's challengers have managed to unseat incumbent Republicans, |
| 1:12.0 | while one incumbent Republican has managed to beat their Trump back challengers and hold on to |
| 1:16.8 | their seats. And we're still waiting on final results from two races, and we'll bring you |
| 1:20.7 | those results as we get them. And just to be clear, as you're watching this and you're thinking, |
| 1:26.0 | what does this mean? I just want Democrats to have some control again of some body of power in this country. |
| 1:33.5 | To be clear, this is not a bellwether of anything. |
| 1:36.4 | Other than the lengths a crybaby in the White House is willing to go to take out people who cross him. |
| 1:42.2 | I mean, what he set off is an absolute civil war that has been |
| 1:46.9 | raging inside the Indiana Republican Party over these primary challenges. Since last summer, |
| 1:52.0 | it's been ongoing for a long time. And outside groups burned a whole bunch of money on the airwaves |
| 1:57.4 | with ads targeting Republican incumbents, most of which focus pretty heavily on Donald Trump. |
| 2:04.9 | Holdman against Trump for China. No wonder President Trump endorsed Blake Feichter instead, liberal rhino, Linda Rogers. |
| 2:14.0 | President Trump endorses Dr. Brian Schmutzler, strong, pro-Trump. |
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