'Huge problem': Steve Bannon fears Trump's humiliating defeat means GOP majority is doomed

Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon is sounding the alarm about Republicans' prospects of retaining the House majority, after one of Trump's biggest gambits to rig the 2026 midterm election for the GOP crashed and burned.

On Thursday, Republicans in the Indiana State Senate overwhelmingly rejected a Trump-endorsed mid-decade gerrymander that would have carved up the city of Indianapolis and dismantled every Democratic congressional seat in the Hoosier State.

It was the culmination of months of effort by the Trump White House to threaten and intimidate reluctant lawmakers to redraw their maps that led to a number of state senators being swatted in their homes, and allies of Trump even threatening the federal funding of the entire state.

With that measure failing, and Republicans not gaining as many seats as they had hoped from mid-decade redistricting, Bannon said the party looks like it's in deep trouble going into the midterms, according to Politico.

“We have a huge problem,” said Bannon, as he broadcast his War Room show from a hotel in the suburbs of Indianapolis as the vote unfolded. “People have to realize that we only have a couple opportunities. We’ve got a net five to 10 seats. If we don’t get a net 10 pickup in the redistricting wars, it’s going to be enormously hard, if not impossible, to hold the House.”

This comes as the GOP has suffered a number of setbacks in other redistricting projects, with the GOP agreeing to a compromise with Democrats in Ohio, and failing to take any action in Kansas or New Hampshire, while California Democrats pass their own redistricting in retaliation for their gerrymander in Texas. It also comes as experts believe the polls indicate they're headed for a wipeout in elections next year.