Trump approval is worst ever in new poll
5/6/202615 min
President Trump said he would punish the Republican state senators in Indiana who voted against redistricting, and in Tuesday’s primary, almost all of them lost to Trump-backed challengers. We discuss takeaways from the primaries in Indiana and Ohio, plus how voters say they feel about Trump in a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
This episode: political correspondent Ashley Lopez, political reporter Stephen Fowler, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
This podcast was produced by Casey Morell and Bria Suggs, and edited by Rachel Baye.
Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Ashley Lopez· Host0:23
[upbeat music] Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover politics.
Steven Fowler· Co-host0:32
I'm Steven Fowler. I also cover politics.
Domenico Montanaro· Co-host0:34
And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.
Ashley Lopez· Host0:37
Today on the podcast, we're going to talk about election results from Indiana and Ohio, and what voters are telling us about how they are feeling about Trump and the economy. Steven, I, I wanna start with Indiana. Last week on the podcast, we talked about how President Trump was trying to punish state senators who voted against redrawing the state's congressional districts by backing primary challengers for them. Can you tell us what happened in those races?
Steven Fowler· Co-host1:02
By and large, those incumbents were punished. There were seven incumbent state senators on the ballot. Five of them handily lost. Uh, one of them narrowly survived. There's a race that is too close to call, where the two candidates are separated by about three votes. So if you're looking at this in the big picture, Donald Trump, big winner, big success. If you're looking at what it means for the Indiana