Over the past several months, Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other national Republicans and political groups placed phone calls, made in-person visits in Indiana and Washington and posted on social media to urge Indiana lawmakers to take up a map that they hoped would help shore up the party\u2019s narrow U.S. House majority. <\/p>\n
On several occasions, Trump called out the Indiana Republican lawmakers who were against or undecided on the map, including Rodric Bray, the GOP leader of the Senate. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnybody that votes against Redistricting, and the SUCCESS of the Republican Party in D.C., will be, I am sure, met with a MAGA Primary in the Spring,\u201d Trump wrote Wednesday night on Truth Social<\/a>. \u201cRod Bray and his friends won\u2019t be in Politics for long, and I will do everything within my power to make sure that they will not hurt the Republican Party, and our Country, again.\u201d<\/p>\n Bray is one of 11 Republicans who voted against the map who won\u2019t be on the ballot again until 2028. The other 10 will face re-election in 2026. <\/p>\n After Thursday’s vote, Republican Gov. Mike Braun said he would work with Trump to support primary challengers to the Republicans who opposed the map. <\/p>\n “I am very disappointed that a small group of misguided State Senators have partnered with Democrats to reject this opportunity to protect Hoosiers with fair maps and to reject the leadership of President Trump,” Braun said in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was an \u201call hands on deck\u201d effort among Republicans in Washington to get Indiana lawmakers on board, according to a senior GOP congressional leadership source familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and members of his leadership team were calling state lawmakers to urge them to support the new map earlier this week, the source said.<\/p>\n After Thursday’s vote, Johnson told reporters in Washington that the result was “disappointing” but that he was still “very, very bullish about the midterms.”<\/p>\n “I know that we are going to win and grow this majority because they have a great record to run on. We have better candidates, better message, and we have a lot to show the people, so we\u2019ll continue our momentum,” he said. <\/p>\n Most other Republican-led states Trump had pushed to pursue redistricting, which typically occurs at the beginning of each decade with new census figures, this year fell in line. Republicans in Texas, Missouri and North Carolina passed new maps to further favor the party, while others in states like Florida may soon join them. <\/p>\n Without new congressional boundaries in Indiana, Republicans may not be able to achieve the advantage they had initially hoped for through redistricting. Voters in California approved a Democratic-drawn map last month, and Democrats in Virginia have taken steps toward redistricting. A court-ordered map in Utah resulted in a new solidly Democratic district. And while a new map in Ohio will boost Republicans, it did not go as far as some Democrats feared. <\/p>\n![\"Rodric](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251210-rodric-bray-vl-119p-51a882.jpg\")
Indiana Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray had long resisted efforts to draw a new congressional map. Michelle Pemberton \/ The Indianapolis Star via USA Today Network file<\/p>\n