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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      Factually incorrect,

      Five of the seven lost their primaries Tuesday, while another, Greg Goode, advanced to the general election. The other, Spencer Deery, led Trump-backed Paula Copenhaver by just three votes in a race that remained too close to call Wednesday.

      Moreover, the argument you’re trying to make with that fact is divorced from reality. Trump is hugely influential among Republicans - polls consistently show self identified Republicans having over 80% approval for him and his policies, and the vast majority of their electeds have done everything he wanted and refused to condemn any of his craziness.

      This is because the Republican party is an evil organization and has been so ever since the 1960s when they came out swinging against the Civil Rights Acts because they wanted to get dirt poor racist rednecks to vote for tax breaks for oligarchs and deregulation for their factories. Donald Trump is just the latest and most severe example of generations of doubling down on bigotry as a way to market their grifts.

      There are no good members of the Republican party. Failure to accept this difficult truth and act accordingly will lead to the destruction of America.