Three state senators who were defeated in Tuesday’s primary told NBC News they don’t feel differently about the redistricting vote that drew Trump’s ire.

After a group of Indiana Republican legislators rejected their party’s redistricting plan last year, they faced public ridicule from Donald Trump and millions of dollars in negative attack ads, with several ultimately losing their jobs Tuesday.

But three of those state senators told NBC News on Wednesday that they have no second thoughts about the vote that put them in the spotlight and led to their defeats at the hands of Trump-backed challengers.

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    Of course they don’t, dipshit asshole conservatives never think anything is their own fault, even when it comes straight out of the political party they’ve supported their whole lives

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      Yeah not sure the hostility here. They opposed dark money in politics, voted the way their constituents wanted, and paid the price.

      We should be complimenting those actions

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        So, did they vote the way their constituents wanted? This Tuesday’s results would disagree with that no?

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          Primary voters aren’t the whole of the electorate. Though being Indiana, I suspect the new whackjobs are going to win the general.

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            it’s an indicator… But, with all the “stuff” going on, it could have just been the current ‘hot topic’ which voters were tricked into “if we don’t support THIS terrible thing, the democrats are going to do THAT terrible thing” and its not necessarily reflective of actual beliefs.

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              Yeah, you’re probably right. I actually had the exact same thought as your original comment. I’m just kind of hoping that with the way things have been going lately maybe something good will actually happen. But I’ve lived in Indiana so that hope is very small.

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          Normally these races have at most $200,000 at play. Trump dumped millions in negative ads against them because they wouldn’t gerrymander the voting districts.