President Donald Trump personally attacked the Indiana Republican leader in the state Senate on Wednesday, the day before the legislative body is supposed to vote on a contentious redistricting bill.
In a lengthy Truth Social post, Trump took issue with Indiana Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray’s defiant opposition to the Republican Party’s mid-decade redistricting agenda.
“He is putting every ounce of his limited strength into asking his soon to be very vulnerable friends to vote with him,” the president said. “By doing so, he is putting the Majority in the House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., at risk and, at the same time, putting anybody in Indiana who votes against this Redistricting, likewise, at risk.”
If approved, the new congressional map would create two more GOP-leaning House seats, so all nine districts would be Republican-held. Trump is pressuring Bray to get in line, or else he and other state senators who vote against the new map will face a primary next year.
Trump went on to call Bray a “bad guy” or, at least, a “very stupid one,” and he also claimed the anti-redistricting state lawmakers are the “favorite Republicans” of Democratic leaders in Congress.
Since the push to start redistricting began earlier this year, lawmakers who have not gotten on board with the Trump administration’s goal have reported being swatted and having bomb threats called in on them.
The GOP-friendly redistricting bill is expected to face a tight vote in the Indiana Senate on Thursday. The measure passed the Indiana House by a 57-41 margin last week. It also cleared a key committee vote in the Indiana Senate earlier this week before the final vote.
It remains unclear whether the GOP caucus in the state’s 50-seat upper chamber has enough votes. If all 10 Democrats vote no, a majority of at least 26 Republicans must vote yes for the bill to pass.
State Sen. Greg Goode, whom Trump previously criticized on social media, is one of 10 Republicans who remain undecided ahead of Thursday’s vote. Goode said he had two phone calls with Trump this week, the Indiana Capital Chronicle reported.
“Anybody 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,” Trump warned Wednesday night.
“If Republicans will not do what is necessary to save our Country, they will eventually lose everything to the Democrats,” he added. “Rod Bray and his friends won’t 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. One of my favorite States, Indiana, will be the only State in the Union to turn the Republican Party down!”
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Out of Indiana’s nine-member congressional delegation, only two seats are currently held by Democrats. The new map would carve up the districts represented by Reps. Andre Carson and Frank Mrvan.
For months, Indiana has been hesitant to get behind Trump’s redistricting push ahead of the 2026 elections. Texas and North Carolina are some examples of red states that have answered Trump’s call, while California leads the charge in the nationwide redistricting battle on the Democratic side with the state’s approval of Proposition 50 last month.
