Trump goes on a revenge tour in Indiana after failed redistricting vote

Trump is backing GOP challengers to lawmakers who opposed a redrawn congressional map last year as allies pour in millions of dollars ahead of the May primary.

Just weeks after Bluffton City, Indiana, Common Council member Blake Fiechter was endorsed by President Donald Trump for a state Senate seat, he backed out of the race.

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“I felt like I was on a raft alone trying to navigate,” he told WANE-TV of Fort Wayne in February.

So Trump, with his sights set on unseating the Indiana Republican lawmakers who defied him on a redistricting vote last year, threw him a lifeline. In early March, Fiechter and five other Republican candidates Trump is backing for state Senate seats were at the White House and getting their picture taken behind the Resolute Desk.