LOADING ERROR LOADINGTwenty-one Republicans in the Indiana state Senate rejected President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign for new congressional maps that would have eliminated the state’s two House seats held by Democrats on Thursday. Michael Conroy via Associated PressBray, the leader of the Senate caucus, opposed Trump’s redistricting push from the beginning and became the face of the president’s ire. In statements issued in November and after Thursday’s vote, he made clear that he believed that redrawing congressional districts was not the best way for Republicans to gain seats in the Indiana congressional delegation. Advertisement“Indiana Senate Republicans want to see a Republican majority in Congress at the midterms,” Bray said in a statement on Thursday. Trump’s “vulgarity,” as Bohacek called it in the CNN interview, was just another reason not to vote for redistricting.

Source: Huffington Post December 12, 2025 19:34 UTC