The MAGA civil war intensified as POTUS Trump lost his battle to bully Indiana Republicans into redrawing their congressional districts. Are we seeing Trump 2.0’s mojo bleeding out?

Indeed, Trump’s lame duck status is on full display in almost every corner of his domestic agenda. The only place his call to end the filibuster has won approval so far is in Republican primaries. Congress rejected his health care plan before the Trump administration could fully roll it out. His boat strikes off the coasts of Central and South America face congressional scrutiny. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is in open rebellion. He caved on the release of the Epstein files after months of resistance. His $2,000 tariff checks for Americans seem as likely as his DOGE checks. His backed candidate for Miami mayor tanked, allowing a Democrat to win the office for the first time in nearly three decades. His handpicked Republican National Committee chair is predicting “a pending, looming disaster” in the midterms. (The caveat, of course, is that Joe Gruters said Trump is the only man who can save Republicans.) Just 31 percent of Americans approve of his handling of the economy; voters are expressing generational financial strain at a time he says the says the economy is “A+++++; and the expiration of the ACA subsidies threaten to hurt him.

All told, from the outside, Trump 2.0 appears at the nadir of its power.

Indiana was on the frontlines of the MAGA civil war as Trump pushed for that state’s Republicans to help him stave off a 2026 midterm disaster by drawing new GOP districts.

Paul Blumenthal summed up the Indiana situation well for Huffington Post:

Twenty-one Republicans in the Indiana state Senate rejected President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign for new congressional maps that would have eliminated the state’s two House seats held by Democrats on Thursday.

The humiliating rejection for Trump came after he put the full weight of the White House and Republican Party apparatus to bear on the state Senate. Trump sent a dozen social media posts threatening GOP Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray and others for opposing redistricting with primary challenges. Vice President JD Vance made multiple trips to cajole lawmakers. White House deputy chief of staff James Blair and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) called individual state senators to push them to change their votes.

The pressure campaign peaked on Thursday shortly before the vote when Heritage Action, the political arm of the Heritage Foundation, declared in a social media post on Thursday that Trump had threatened to cut off all funding to the state if the state Senate did not support redistricting. Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith, a Republican and staunch supporter of the redistricting effort, confirmed this in a since-deleted post on X.

This all-out push predictably led to acts of intimidation and threats and acts of violence targeting GOP state senators who opposed the effort. But the pressure campaign and the threats of violence backfired. A majority of the 40 GOP state senators voted no.

This tweet from Vice-POTUS J.D. Vance, subtweeting Donald, Jr. gives the flavor of the MAGA Civil War, Indiana front: