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President Donald Trump was called out by political observers Thursday evening over his attempt to downplay a humiliating defeat in Indiana on Thurdsay.

Indiana's Republican-controlled Senate rejected a controversial redistricting proposal backed by Trump in a stunning 31-19 vote. The sharp rebuke came despite Republicans holding a 40-10 majority.

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman warned on Thursday that President Donald Turmp's second administration appears to be pushing America toward its third civil war, citing the "flying elephants" that the administration keeps letting out.

To Friedman, these flying elephants are incidents that reveal "something very different is going on" that people need to pay attention to. Friedman called attention to a 33-page National Security memo the Trump administration published last week as the latest flying elephant that "no one should ignore."

Senate Republicans on Thursday rejected a Democratic proposal to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year. Notably, both Republican senators from Alaska stood out, as both broke party lines and voted with Democrats.

There's a key reason for that, Politico reported on Thursday.

CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny was stunned on Thursday after anchor Jake Tapper broke news that Indiana Republicans had rejected attempts to change the state's election map ahead of the 2026 midterm.

Zeleny joined Tapper on Thursday's broadcast of "The Lead" to discuss a pressure campaign President Donald Trump and Republicans were waging to redraw the maps. The efforts happened at a time when other Republican-controlled legislatures, like Missouri and Texas, have redrawn their maps through a process called mid-cycle redistricting.

The Republican-controlled Senate in Indiana's state legislature rejected a partisan effort to redraw the state's electoral map ahead of the 2026 midterm election, something President Donald Trump and his cronies have been pressuring state legislatures across the country to do.

On Thursday, the Indiana Senate voted 31-19 to reject a new map even though Republicans hold a 40-10 advantage in the Upper Chamber. The proposed map would have made Indiana's two Democratic-held Congressional seats lean Republican during the midterm, which could help Trump keep a Republican majority in the House of Representatives. Seven out of the nine Congressional representatives from Indiana are currently Republicans.

The Department of Defense appeared to threaten a journalist with Mother Jones after they began asking questions about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and that threat may have been coordinated with a MAGA influencer, according to a new report.

Dan Friedman, a senior reporter with Mother Jones' D.C. bureau, wrote in a new report that he has been asking the Defense Department questions about Eric Geressy, Hegseth's senior Pentagon adviser, who served a tour in Iraq with the Secretary in the 2000s. Friedman said he linked an email address for Geressy to a Goodreads list of lewd books about "Asian wife sharing," two books by Hegseth, and some military history titles. He also asked the Defense Department about a domestic violence charge against Geressy and whether the agency reviewed it as part of his security clearance process.

Indiana Senate Majority Leader Chris Garten (R) yelled at his Republican colleagues for opposing President Donald Trump's effort to redistrict the state before the midterms.

"Some will say these maps are political. Let me be clear. You're damn right they are!" Garten shouted in a fiery floor speech on Thursday. "Political policy is political. Safe streets are political. Look at Indianapolis. Affordable electricity is political. A drug-free Indiana is political. Peace in the Middle East is political."

A new poll shows US voters’ approval of President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy has hit an all-time low, even as the president and his officials insist the economy is the best in the world.

The latest Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released Thursday found that only 31% of voters approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, the lowest figure in that survey throughout either of his two terms in office. Overall, 68% of voters said that the current state of the economy was “poor.”