Republican Civil War underway as pro-Trumpers spend millions to oust GOP incumbents

During an appearance on MS NOW on Friday morning, conservative journalist David Drucker built upon his recent reporting on the state of the GOP in Indiana to note that there is a civil war going on inside the Republican Party with money being spent to oust lawmakers in safe seats.

Speaking with the hosts of “Morning Joe,” Drucker explained that Indiana is ground zero in the fight between Donald Trump partisans and the traditional wing of the party that exploded during the debate on redistricting that the president demanded.

The fallout from the battle is still ongoing, he noted.

"For those that are up for election this year, the president promised retribution,” he reminded the hosts. “And so his political team and supported by Senator Jim Banks, a Republican senator of Indiana, Republican Governor Mike Braun, they are spending up to around $6 million or so to try and oust eight of the incumbents who are running for re-election.”

“I spent some time in Indiana last week, and, you know, what I found was that a normally sort of collegial and sort of old school conservative Republican party in Indiana is being turned upside down over this fight on redistricting,” he continued. “And, you know, the ads that are running are not necessarily about redistricting, but President Trump's endorsement still carries a lot of weight in this red state. Republican voters there are, by and large, very happy with the president.”

“But nobody really knows how this is going to end up,” he added. “It's just it's another front in this sort of ongoing Republican civil war, if you will, between the pro-Trump forces and the sort of Reaganite Republicans that are trying to hang on past the Trump era.”

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