Trump goes after Indiana GOP boss after party rejects his map

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00:00Now to a stunning political upset in deep red Indiana and a rebuke of President Trump from

00:08inside his own party. The Indiana Senate voted down a Republican-backed plan to redraw the

00:14state's congressional map, a plan Trump pushed hard for, hoping to lock in two additional GOP-friendly

00:20House seats next fall. The final tally, 31-19 against. 21 Republicans joined Democrats to

00:28kill the bill. Outside the chamber, as you see here, crowds erupted when the vote came down.

00:38The proposed map would have carved up Democratic areas, including splitting Indianapolis into four

00:43districts, giving the GOP a path to sweeping all nine U.S. House seats. They currently control seven.

00:50But senators said the pressure campaign from Trump world went too far. Protesters had filled the

00:55statehouse for days. Several lawmakers say they were swatted or threatened after Trump labeled

01:00holdouts as RINOs, short for Republicans in name only. And he vowed primary challenges against them.

01:07One GOP senator called it over-the-top pressure that undermined trust in the process. Late Thursday,

01:13Trump pushed back on the defeat, downplaying how hard he fought for the map, even as he once again

01:18threatened, the state Senate's top Republican, Roderick Bray.

01:22But there's a man named Bray as a, I guess, head of the Senate. Was that Bray? Is that the name? Bray?

01:31And 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.

01:39He'll go down. I'll certainly support anybody that wants to go against it.

01:43The rejection marks one of the biggest setbacks yet to Trump's national push for mid-cycle

01:49redistricting and a sign that even in solid red states, his pressure campaign has limits.