Now: First Results in Indiana, Where Trump Vows Revenge
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
3.9 • 715 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Out front next, the breaking news, Trump's revenge, the president facing a major test tonight at the ballot box. |
| 0:08.1 | Polls are just closing in Indiana, and it's a big night, seven Republicans fighting to keep their jobs after Trump, the president of the United States, vowed to oust them for defying him. |
| 0:18.3 | One of them is our guest, as the results are just starting to come in here as polls close. |
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| 0:30.6 | but a special CNN investigation reveals that some appear to have survived. |
| 0:34.6 | Wait until you see this. |
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| 0:46.3 | her abduction. Let's go out front. And good evening, I'm Erin Burnett. And out front tonight, |
| 0:53.3 | the breaking news. It is a major test this hour of Trump's power over his own party. |
| 0:58.8 | It is 701 Eastern and polls are just closing across the state of Indiana. |
| 1:03.2 | That is where Trump is vowing revenge on seven Republican lawmakers who dared to defy him. |
| 1:10.0 | How did they do that? Well, they voted against his |
| 1:12.5 | redistricting map in December. And that handed Trump his most embarrassing political defeat of his |
| 1:18.1 | second term to date. So he got involved to try to get them out. His attempts to redraw the House |
| 1:23.9 | maps failed because of those defiant Republicans. They were targeted even with death threats as a result of this. But Trump hasn't forgotten that they stood up to him. |
| 1:31.8 | His allies then poured millions of dollars to back their challengers in tonight's election. |
| 1:37.4 | And for good measure, Trump tweeted today against those members of his own party. He said, |
| 1:41.7 | good luck to those great Indiana Senate candidates who are running |
| 1:44.5 | against people who couldn't care less about our country or about keeping the majority in Congress. |
| 1:49.0 | Let's see how those rhinos do tonight. President Donald J. Trump, his name in caps. And we are, as I said, |
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