Five Indiana Republicans defied Trump and paid with their careers.
Now CNN's own data reporter is calling the narrative that Trump is losing his party a "myth."
Here's what he said on air – and why Democrats do not want you to hear it.
CNN's Own Numbers Destroy the Narrative
Harry Enten is CNN's senior data reporter.
He's not a Republican. He's not a conservative commentator.
He sits at CNN's own desk and reads their own data.
And on Thursday, he said this: the idea that Trump is losing support among Republicans is a "myth."
His numbers back it up.
Trump's approval rating among Republicans sits at 84 percent right now.
https://twitter.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2052407658188071295?s=20
In 2022, when he wasn't even president, it was 76 percent. In 2018 – the last time he was in the White House heading into a midterm – it was 85 percent.
One percent separates Trump now from Trump at his first midterm. That's not a collapse.
That's a floor.
The media spent months telling you Trump's base was cracking.
CNN's own reporter went on television and called that story fiction.
Indiana Just Sent Six Politicians Home
Seven Indiana Republican state senators crossed Trump last December, voting down his redistricting plan.
Tuesday, Republican voters settled the score.
Six of the seven lost their primaries to Trump-backed challengers.
State Sen. Travis Holdman had served since 2008. He was the third-most powerful Republican in the chamber.
Real estate agent Blake Fiechter – who briefly dropped out of the race, then reversed course after a White House visit in March – beat him anyway.
80-year-old Jim Buck had been in the Indiana legislature since 1994. Gone.
Linda Rogers. Dan Dernulc. Rick Niemeyer. Greg Walker. All gone.
Every winning challenger cleared 56 percent of the vote.
https://twitter.com/MichaelARothman/status/2052394149467574749?s=20
Sen. Jim Banks called it a "big night for MAGA in Indiana."
Democrats built their entire 2026 midterm strategy around the theory that Trump's coalition was fracturing.
They assumed inflation anxiety and tariff frustration would peel away enough Republicans to give them an opening.
Indiana buried that theory Tuesday night.
What the Media Won't Tell You
Republican voters don't experience Trump the way the Washington press corps does.
They don't read the same newspapers. They don't watch the same panels.
They don't absorb the same daily drumbeat of outrage.
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They see a president who secured the border, confronted China, confirmed conservative judges, and cut regulations that had been strangling their businesses for years.
They see a man Washington has tried to destroy – with two impeachments, criminal indictments, and four years of wall-to-wall negative coverage – and they see him still standing.
That's not weakness.
That's proof of concept.
When Democrats and their media allies declare Trump's coalition is cracking, Republican voters hear it from the same people who told them the Russia hoax was real.
The same people who said the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation.
The same people who told them inflation was transitory.
They stopped believing those voices a long time ago.
Enten's numbers confirm what conservatives already knew.
Trump isn't losing his voters. He's holding them.
Any Republican calculating that crossing Trump will earn suburban goodwill instead of a primary challenger just saw how that math works – in Indiana, by double digits.
Sources:
- Pam Key, "CNN's Enten: It's a 'Myth' That Trump Is Losing Support Among Republicans," Breitbart, May 7, 2026.
- Indiana Capital Chronicle, "Trump-backed candidates romp to wins in Indiana Senate races," May 5, 2026.
- Jim Banks, post on X, May 5, 2026.