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The Playbook Podcast

MAGA retakes Indiana

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Politics, Government, Daily News, News

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In Indiana, most of President Trump's endorsed primary opponents beat GOP state legislators. Playbook's Adam Wren tells Jack Blanchard what all of this means, including the future of the nationwide redistricting war and the division in the Republican Party. Then, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick faces questioning over Jeffrey Epstein. And Marco Rubio is headed to Rome to meet Pope Leo XIV after holding a White House press briefing before Operation Freedom was paused.

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Today on the Playbook podcast, he's still got it. Donald Trump wipes out the rebel Republicans

0:38.8

in Indiana and reasserts control of his party. It's a big day too for Howard Lucknick as he prepares

0:45.2

to testify on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Marco Rubio heads to Rome today to see

0:51.2

the Pope. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Adam Ren, and it's Wednesday,

0:56.4

May the 6th. How you doing, Adam? You must have had quite a night last night. Yeah, yeah,

1:03.5

it has been a wild eight or nine months of this Indiana redistricting saga. So yeah, definitely a

1:09.9

wild night. I'm sure you guys listening to this

1:12.3

already know that Adam is our resident Hoosier on the playbook team. And so Adam, I think it was

1:17.9

Megan Messley on this podcast, described the British Royal Family Visit to me as the Blanchard

1:22.0

Super Bowl. I reckon this Indiana redistricting story is definitely the Adam Wren Super Bowl. Just talk us through what happened

1:29.9

last night in these races that we've all been watching so closely. Yeah, so essentially, Jack,

1:35.1

we saw incumbents in Indiana get wiped out last night. We saw President Donald Trump reassert

1:42.2

his already firm grip on the GOP base and any stories about

1:47.3

Trump's base sort of dividing at this precarious moment for the coalition and for him as a leader

1:54.6

can be sort of written off at this moment.

1:57.3

Granted, it's a red state, Indiana, it's a state that he's won easily, but this tells us

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