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 inside his own party.

00:10The Indiana Senate voted down a Republican-backed plan to redraw the state's congressional map,

00:16a plan Trump pushed hard for, hoping to lock in two additional GOP-friendly House seats next fall.

00:22The final tally, 31-19 against.

00:2521 Republicans joined Democrats to kill the bill.

00:30Outside 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 districts,

00:44giving the GOP a path to sweeping all nine U.S. House seats.

00:48They currently control seven.

00:49But senators said the pressure campaign from Trump world went too far.

00:54Protesters had filled the statehouse for days.

00:56Several lawmakers say they were swatted or threatened after Trump labeled holdouts as RINOs, short for Republicans in name only.

01:04And he vowed primary challenges against them.

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

01:12Late Thursday, Trump pushed back on the defeat, downplaying how hard he fought for the map,

01:17even as he once again threatened the state Senate's top Republican, Roderick Bray.

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

01:27Was that Bray?

01:29Is that the name, Bray?

01:31And, I mean, I'm sure that whenever his primary is, it's, I think, in two years.

01:37But I'm sure he'll go down.

01:39He'll go down.

01:40I'll certainly support anybody that wants to go against him.

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

01:50and to sign that even in solid red states, his pressure campaign has limits.