{"id":17344,"date":"2026-01-06T15:46:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/indiana-congressman-jim-baird-and-wife-hospitalized-after-car-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:46:46","slug":"indiana-congressman-jim-baird-and-wife-hospitalized-after-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/indiana-congressman-jim-baird-and-wife-hospitalized-after-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana congressman Jim Baird and wife hospitalized after car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Indiana Rep. Jim Baird and his wife are being hospitalized following a serious car crash, President Donald Trump confirmed in televised comments to House Republicans on Monday. <\/p>\n

“They’re going to be OK, but they had a pretty bad accident,” Trump said at the top of his address to a House GOP legislative retreat, where he also paid tribute to the late California Rep. Doug LaMalfa following his sudden death Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaker Mike Johnson also addressed LaMalfa’s death and Baird’s hospitalization before Trump spoke, according to four people granted anonymity to describe the closed-door comments. Johnson said he believed Baird was dealing with a spinal issue.<\/p>\n

It is not clear where the crash involving Baird, 80, took place. Another Indiana Republican, Rep. Jackie Walorski, was killed in a 2022 auto collision<\/a> that also claimed the lives of two congressional aides and another driver.<\/p>\n

House Republicans are already dealing with a tight 218-213 margin following LaMalfa’s death. Baird’s hospitalization could further complicate Johnson’s ability to wrangle his majority in the coming weeks \u2014 effectively leaving him with a two-vote margin.<\/p>\n

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this report misstated which day Trump spoke to House Republicans. It was Tuesday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indiana Rep. Jim Baird and his wife are being hospitalized following a serious car crash, President Donald Trump confirmed in televised comments to House Republicans on Monday. “They’re going to be OK, but they had a pretty bad accident,” Trump said at the top of his address to a House GOP legislative retreat, where he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}