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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.
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