Why Republicans Are Losing While Trump Wins

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🗓️ 6 May 2026

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0:00.0	Some follow the noise.
0:03.3	Bloomberg follows the money.
0:05.4	Because behind every headline is a bottom line.
0:09.3	Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings,
0:13.8	there's a money side to every story.
0:16.5	And when you see the money side, you understand what others miss.
0:20.9	Get the money side of the story.
0:22.9	Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.
0:27.8	Republicans may have lost yesterday's elections,
0:29.5	but Donald Trump won, despite his horrible polling.
0:32.4	Like, this man owns the Republican Party.
0:34.5	Or be getting into specifics, if you weren't paying attention,
0:36.2	you might not have known that there were midterm primaries in special elections in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana yesterday.
0:40.3	You had a lot of people paying very close attention, not just to see who won, but also to see if it could give us a hint as to what to expect from the electoral battle later this year. So starting with Indiana, one of the big issues on the ballot was gerrymandering. Because Indiana, it's one of the states that Trump pressured to redraw its congressional districts last year, making phone calls, setting J.D. Vance there twice and even inviting its lawmakers to the White House.
0:58.0	But despite Trump laying it on thick, pushing Indiana's state Senate rejected the gerrymandered map in December with 21 of 40 GOP lawmakers joining Democrats.
1:06.0	And so then, in yesterday's primaries, you had seven of those Republicans who voted no facing challenges
1:11.0	from Trump-backed candidates.
1:12.3	And these races were crazy.
1:14.1	You had conservative groups, including Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, pouring millions of
1:17.5	dollars into attack ads, way more money than the same races would have attracted years ago.
1:21.4	Opposing Trump's policies, we don't have to be stuck with Rhino Greg Walker.
1:27.1	And then also after Trump got on truth social and started naming names, the incumbent Republicans got flooded with death threats, bomb scares, even swatting calls. The cops busted down one lawmaker's door and pointed guns at him after they got a false report claiming he'd killed his wife. And then, when it got to the actual polls, the votes yesterday, Trump's guys, they mostly won. Or with him beating five out of the seven incumbents, and actually as of recording, one race is still too close to call.
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