WATCH: Trump criticizes Indiana Senate Republicans' rejection of redistricting effort

Описание: After Republican legislators in Indiana joined with Democrats to vote down a plan to redraw the state's congressional map on Thursday, President Donald Trump said he would support a primary against a GOP state Senate leader.

The 31 to 19 vote in the state Senate rejected the congressional redistricting effort that Trump has been pushing Republicans to support in order to help maintain their majority in the U.S. House after the 2026 midterm elections. Twenty-one Republicans joined 10 Democrats in opposing the new district lines that could have potentially given Republicans two more seats.

When PBS News Hour's White House correspondent Liz Landers asked Trump for his reaction to the vote, the president criticized Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray.

"I heard he was against it," Trump said. "He'll probably lose his next primary, whenever that is. I hope he does, because he's done a tremendous disservice."

Trump added later that he would "certainly support anybody who wants to go against him."

After the vote, Bray said in a statement that while Republicans in the state senate want to see a GOP majority in Congress in the 2026 midterm elections, "the issue before us today was how to get there, and many of my caucus members don’t think redrawing our Congressional map mid-cycle is a guaranteed way for Indiana – or our country – to achieve that outcome.”

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