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Now to a stunning political upset in deep red Indiana and a rebuke of President Trump from inside his own party
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The Indiana Senate voted down a Republican-backed plan to redraw the state's congressional map
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a plan Trump pushed hard for, hoping to lock in two additional GOP-friendly House seats next fall
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The final tally, 31-19 against. 21 Republicans joined Democrats to kill the bill
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Outside the chamber, as you see here, crowds erupted when the vote came down
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The proposed map would have carved up Democratic areas, including splitting Indianapolis into four districts
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giving the GOP a path to sweeping all nine U.S. House seats. They currently control seven
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But senators said the pressure campaign from Trump World went too far
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Protesters had filled the statehouse for days. Several lawmakers say they were swatted or threatened after Trump labeled holdouts as RINOs, short for Republicans in name only
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And he vowed primary challenges against them. One GOP senator called it over-the-top pressure that undermined trust in the process
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Late Thursday, Trump pushed back on the defeat, downplaying how hard he fought for the map
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even as he once again threatened the state Senate's top Republican, Roderick Bray
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But there's a man named Bray as a, I guess, head of the Senate
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Was that Bray? Is that the name? Bray? And I mean, I'm sure that whenever his primary is, it's I think in two years, but I'm sure he'll go down
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He'll go down. I'll certainly support anybody that wants to go against him
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The rejection marks one of the biggest setbacks yet to Trump's national push for mid-cycle redistricting
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and to sign that even in solid red states, his pressure campaign has limits
