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President Donald Trump on Saturday vowed to “take out” the Republican chief of the Indiana Senate after he resisted a brand new congressional map the president had championed.
Trump wrote on Reality Social that Indiana Senate Majority Chief Rod Bray had “betrayed” the Republican Get together after his chamber voted down a brand new map final month that will have created two extra right-leaning congressional districts within the state.
The president mentioned he would accomplice with David McIntosh, a former Indiana congressman who helped discovered two political teams, the Federalist Society and the Membership for Development, to focus on Bray.
“I used to be with David McIntosh of the Membership for Development, and we agreed that we’ll each work tirelessly collectively to take out Indiana Senate Majority Chief Rod Bray, a complete RINO, who betrayed the Republican Get together, the President of america, and everybody else who desires to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote within the submit.
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State Sen. Rodric Bray speaks to members of the media on the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on Dec. 8, 2025. (Kaiti Sullivan/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
He added, “We’re after you Bray, like nobody has ever come after you earlier than!”
McIntosh, a longtime conservative determine, mentioned he was on board with Trump’s sport plan.
“President Trump and I are aligned,” he wrote on X. “Rod Bray goes down.”
Fox Information Digital has reached out to Bray’s workplace for remark.
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State Sen. Rodric Bray, middle, speaks on the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on Dec. 8, 2025. (Kaiti Sullivan/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
Trump has launched redistricting efforts throughout the nation forward of this yr’s midterms, and Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio have drawn new maps as a part of the president’s push.
In December, the Indiana Senate voted 31-19 towards a brand new congressional map, with 21 Republicans becoming a member of 10 Democrats in voting towards the measure. If authorized, the districts of two Democratic representatives would have been eradicated.
The redistricting invoice handed the Indiana Home 57-41, with a dozen GOP lawmakers voting towards the measure, however Republican leaders within the Senate had resisted Trump’s efforts to attract new congressional maps.
Bray had repeatedly mentioned there wasn’t sufficient assist within the chamber to maneuver ahead with redistricting, however Trump regularly pressured Bray and others on the fence main as much as the vote, saying they “want encouragement to make the appropriate determination.”
In a social media submit on the eve of the vote within the state Senate, Trump blasted Bray, vowing that he’d do every thing inside his energy to oust Bray and Republicans who voted towards the redistricting invoice of their GOP primaries.
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President Donald Trump arrives at a dedication ceremony for a portion of Southern Boulevard just lately renamed for him at his Mar-a-Lago Membership in Palm Seaside, Florida, on Jan. 16, 2026. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photograph)
The president had referred to as state lawmakers in regards to the invoice, and Vice President JD Vance visited the state twice final fall to debate redistricting.
After the Virginia state Senate greenlit a constitutional modification on Friday that will enable the Democrat-controlled legislature to redraw the state’s U.S. Home maps forward of the midterm elections, Vance additionally took purpose at Bray.
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“I might wish to thank @bray_rodric for not even attempting to struggle again towards this extraordinary Democrat abuse of energy,” he wrote on X. “Now the votes of Indiana Republicans will matter far lower than the votes of Virginia Democrats. We advised you it could occur, and you probably did nothing.”
Fox Information Digital’s Paul Steinhauser and Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.
